Ben Tshin

I went to Hanover to visit my dad’s godfather, Rev. Knights for his 80-something birthday. He isn’t really my great godfather but our family is treated like a part of their family; my dad, and the rest of us Tshins, is almost adopted into their family. So we were walking around Grandpa and Grandma Knights’s nursing home and their daughter (our Aunt Pearl) called us “family”. We have a very strange bond between our families, they (our aunts) being British-Canadians born in China, us being Chinese born in Canada.

I’m blessed to have a caucasian extended family. One of our cousins, Kirk Handy, is a hockey coach down in the states and that is an odd thought since all our “real cousins” are in Indonesia which has a total of maybe 3 or 4 ice rinks for a population of 200 million. Our cousin Kim (Kirk’s sister) is the best. She has humour and wit that rivals the best I know (in a league with Gilbert and Theresa). Also, their dad is retired like my dad and its funny to see them now. Uncle Gary looked a bit like U2′s Bono. I found out that my dad is going to be taking culinary and singing classes in his spare time. Odd that I found out from my “white relatives”, though.

Anyway, it’s nice to have a family here in Canada that complements our other family on the other side of the world in Indonesia.

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