Or you became a teacher, which required you to attend a Normal-School. And there were Normals- for one year. Interviewer: Okay.

Speaker: Yeah, we knew each other in high-school so then I-don't-know, we just- Speaker 2: Fifty-nine years. That's a long time. Speaker: Just decided- just decided after- after you were ah- after you were in ah Normal-School I-guess. Speaker 2: Teachers-college, yeah. Interviewer: Normal-school? Speaker 2: Yeah, they called it Normal-School then. Speaker: Beaverton-Normal-school they called it then, it is teachers-college now. In Normal-School is where she got her education. About that time we decided we'd get together and I guess we went together for about five years before we got married.

Interviewer: Uh-huh. But I've heard that there's a lot of moonshine around and about. Is that true? Speaker: Not no more. Interviewer: No?

Speaker: Now I don't think every teacher did this, but one teacher we had- we had this note that we took home. It was made out of burlap. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: It was a little square- twelve inches square- your mother hemmed it and put a little tab on it to hang it up.

Interviewer: What would you call the horse on the left, if you were driving a team? Speaker: Ah, that'd be the nye-horse. Interviewer: And the one on the right? Speaker: Naff-horse.

Speaker: I u-no I used to walk for my first three years, and my last year, in O-A-C, my mom drove me to school. 'Cause- and then, she picks me up, sometimes not all the time. She picks me up sometimes because she wants me to pick up Sis. My little sister. But if, talking about used- I used to walk.

But whereas come to Josh... like, especially when it comes to work, school, like, I just couldn't handle it myself, right. It was his O-A-C year and (inc) in grade twelve. And then, when it comes to work, we were like, argue. So we figured, we can never work it at the same workplace or anything 'cause when it comes to work we start arguing. We start fighting, about one, little topic.

'Cause like, he has- he has enough senior seniors to like, make the team really good. But... I think- I think they lost, like-' cause you know the twins, the scary twins? I think they- can you try out if you're in O-A-C?

And then they were saying like, "Oh, um, so you're doing like, the grade twelve, um, calculus? So isn't that like O-A-C?" And then I'm-like, "Sort-of." But like, they were just being so like stupid. Not stupid, but just like ignorant, and like, they think that they know everything. So I was-like, "Whatever."

I think, I think growing up here, gives you a bit of a warped perspective. Not because- and I mean, I- Like I don't really buy into the- like I took a Canadian history class last year in O-A-C and it was-like, "Everyone in Canada hates Ontario, everyone in Ontario hates Toronto."

So it was basically just like try your best, and I mean, they know that I'm stressing out, so obviously it's not that I don't care. Um, and then in O-A-C I didn't take any math, I didn't take calculus, and it sort of eased up a bit. But I mean, it's still there.

Interviewer: You could try playing for the guy's team. It might be harder. Speaker: That'd be really intimidating though. I don't think I'd want to do that. I know- actually I know girls who've been really good, who played select, and then in O-A-C they still wanted to play hockey, but it was like workload, like at school, so instead of just like quitting- and they- they played house league, but they've been on guys teams. But um, I'm not- I don't think I'm confident enough to do that.

Our English teacher was boring and old but he was like smart, he was the head of the English department so he was so like, he was knowledgeable. Grade nine he like teaches us O-A-C stuff. We're in grade nine, he like retired.

Favourite teacher from high school. Oh, Mrs. Grewnowsky, I had this-this teacher for Grade ten science and then for Grade eleven chemistry and then for the second half of O-A-C chemistry and her name is Mrs. Grewnowsky and she came from Belarus, so, that's a Soviet Satellite State. So she's got like a thick Russian accent. And she was just really funny.

Least favourite teacher: okay who did I have that- oh I had a teacher named Mr. Drewry, for half- the first half of O-A-C chemistry. And he was just really bad. He couldn't teach, he was a bit of a- a hippie. So people were-like, "Oh yeah Mr. Drewry's really cool. I'm going-to have Mr. Drewry."

Speaker: And that's, I'm taking Chem one-thirty-nine, which is physical chemistry right now. So that's the half of the course that I, the half the year the OAC chem- the physical half that I took with Drewry.

Interviewer: Did you fast-track? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. How'd you find that? Speaker: Um, it was, actually simpler than my grade- eleven year because in grade-eleven I took eight courses, and in grade-twelve, or grade-twelve-slash-O-A-C I took ah, six. So I was doing less work.

Yeah yeah yeah. I know what you mean. I did my um, my art project on him in O-A-C, so yeah. Um, when I was in Montreal I went to the museum there and they had this like, special exhibit of Janet Cardiffe or something like that. Did you ever see that? She does like audio stuff. It's really cool.

Like there were people sitting on stairs, yeah. It was- I think they said like one-thousand-five-hundred-and-fifty-some people, so yeah, it's pretty big. Um, and I went to a high-school that went from kindergarten to OAC and it had like seven- hundred-and-three people or something, so.

Interviewer: You chose Home-Ec over Geography? Speaker: No, it's not like that. It's, it wasn't, Geography was with Business. It was something like one Home-Ec course, or an additional English past, O-A-C? Like, not O-A-C, past grade twelve. Well I thought since I'm going into medicine I thought maybe I should take Nutrition. Yeah, but now I'm having second thoughts, I don't really know what I want to do.