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“Teamwork makes the work easier.”
During the early days, my grandparents worked my grandfather would collect the used cutlery
as school canteen operators. They woke up early in from the students on the table and do the washing,
the morning to cook food for the students. They as my grandmother would clean the stalls.
would wake up at half past four and walk about
two kilometres to their workplace. Everything was completed at half past three every
day. So even though they felt very stressed, they
My grandfather would go to the market to buy had gotten used to it daily. I feel terrible for them,
noodles, fish balls, fish cakes and vegetables, but now they are in a better place.
and my grandmother would cook. During recess,
my grandfather helped my grandmother collect Chua Zhao Ru, Joyce
money from the students while my grandmother Primary 5.7
continued cooking the food. When recess was over,
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