I (inc) you get sweet onions down in the-States. Some kind of sweet-onions and he says they're- you could just- a-- eat them like an apple. (inc)

Interviewer: So you travelled about quite a bit then? Speaker: Well r-- down there we went from ah- that was a- it was awful busy down there, and we went av-- leave with- that's across the river from Quebec-City, and then down into the States we run down there, and ah- oh I was on the passenger train into Quebec-City for about, I-think, fourteen days one time.

And you-see, all them trucks, coming up at Windsor, they come up through Delhi. It's an awful lot shorter up through Canada than going- from the States- then going around ah, other ways. Around that lake.

And it- it's a lot shorter coming out- out through that way back into the States at Niagara than it is going around the other way. And all the traffic comes through- round through there, you-see. And there's an awful lot of traffic on that highway.

And built a w-- a box about six-feet long, and about that square, all wrapped, you-see. And it came from the States. And then he opened it there, he would just open the m-- (inc) you-see. And it won't- would not open on him. And it was all coons, you-see.

Now there was a coon come in there, and ah shipped over from the States, you-know. And ah it was an awful size, you-know. And ah everybody w-- I seen (inc) over on television. It weighed forty- it weighed over forty-some pound (inc). And the subject (inc) it came from the States, you-see. It's next to (inc). And ah they sent it- it brought a hundred-and-eighty dollars or-something. And they said to (inc), "Ah turn on the television." Order came from the States, ah you-see and it was ah the winter over there (inc) milder than here, you-see, and I guess it had lost teeth and got to be great big.

See, that was about here- about six-hundred. And there was kids there from everywh-- Vancouver and Toronto and way over in the States and Montreal and ah- oh, ah some from New-York, and all the other countries. ... When- (inc) I think, had two down here and ah ah over in the States, you-know, there was an awful lot from there.

Speaker: ... they was bawling and (inc) the devil (inc) going on, and I said to them, "Well, you just stick the phone in the ground. It'll just reverse the charges, you-see." Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: It'll phone away down into the States some place. So they phoned down into the States and talked to their mother for a while. Then their brother, he'd been a counsellor up here the year before, and ah she- they'd already got him on the phone. He talked to them.

And ah (inc) right there, she said, "Ah would you drive us home? We've got the money to pay you right now. (inc) if ah we can't phone home (inc)." I don't need to drive them right down to the States.

Speaker: Like you- you hear something and news travels so fast like- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Something- i-- everything always gets around. I-don't-know I think travelling, like I was thinking about going to a school in the States or doing an exchange program um, even- even a different province, you-know- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Just- just to get that sense of- Interviewer: A new feeling? Speaker: Yeah.

Interviewer: That's awesome. Wait so, what are some of the better coin machines that you've seen? Speaker: Um, right now, usually they would run, like- I went to the States in, every year like, when I go to, like, Buffalo or Niagara-Falls. Now the cool thing in Niagara-Falls I don't know have you gone to Niagara-Falls lately?

Interviewer: Where'd you guys used to go to? Speaker: Okay. Um, the farthest place I think, my dad drove. 'Cause I guess tickets were expensive. We drove to- once, I remember when I- talking in the States, and then, I think I (inc) Canada where we drove. The States we drove down to Boston, and then went to Las Vegas we drove down there. And we drove back up. To Buffalo, and then to Montreal, and then Ottawa and then go home.

Speaker: Yeah the- the on-- the only thing that's um, challenging to work... um, with math at home when my dad's give- helping me, is he was um, raised using the imperial system of inches, yards. Which is something that I naturally use anyway. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: 'Cause I'm from the States. But- so that makes it harder.

There is a New Sweden, but I'm not sure if it's in New Brunswick or if it's like just in Maine, just south. She's about ah, maybe half an hour, fourty-five minutes from the States, from Maine. So they're- they're about- Moncton and where she's from is probably three of four hours apart, but she w-- she went to school in Fredericton, and then she moved.

... by that point I had finished my masters so I thought, "P-H-D" and I thought, "Why not complete the three degrees anyway?" and I wanted to do a P-H-D so um basically I would have gone to the States if I had a more favorable response from them. I emailed some profs there.

I like the States cause people are more...fucked-up, like they 're- they're much more like, out there.

... and a month later I heard from someone ah that she's moving to The-States. She fell in love with one of her classmates. She's moving to Oregon um. Just weird scene.

Like I-don-'t- know, I'm just thinking 'cause like when I think of stuff as far like music and culture or like ah like trends and-stuff-like-that, I always think of like I-don-'t-know the- States and L-A and New-York and-stuff-like-that. And it's like that where you-know how like bands go over there to get like famous and-stuff-like-that?

Something that's popular in, in Hong-Kong will be popular in like London will be popular in the-States. Like it 'll- ... Like it 'll just- maybe not at the same time but everybody like kind-of influences each other?

Interviewer: Yeah. But that's what I think is so true what you say of like how America's and pop-culture-America is so influential right? You-know-what-I- mean? Like how Speaker: Yeah. Yeah but then it's weird 'cause when you think of The-States versus like Canada as far as to multiculturalism and-stuff-like-that it's like they kin- - states c--tr--they- they tend to keep stuff separate, I-don-'t-know like it just like seems like a different, a different thing going on there ...