... I've talked a lot just being on different in-- internships and-stuff that I've been on- marine-biology internships. I been talking to a lot of people, whether it be from the-States, England, Australia, anywhere, and I was actually really happy with the level of education that I got.

Well, 'cause, I got sick after university, I ended up spending an entire year sick, but how it happened is I actually finished university, applied for an internship down in the-States to do sea-turtle rehab and rehabilitation. Got the internship, moved to the-States, got sick in the-States, had to move back to Canada and ha-- it took me a year to recuperate, so I lived with my parents during that time. Got better.

No, I was there ah, a day before I got sick. I got sick on the way down there. I actually ended up with like an intestinal infection. Um, we don't- I was di-- okay, in the-States I was diagnosed with Crohn's. When I was there, like I arrived and I was supposed to start my j-- like, the internship the next day ...

So I spent like, five days in the hospital in Florida. Got diagnosed with Crohn's, moved back to Canada and started an investigation of that- of the American- like what they did- like everything that they did down in the-States, the American health-care. 'Cause my doctor didn't believe that I had Crohn's, so I went to see specialist after specialist, test after test and it took like, mm, eleven months for them to discover that I don't actually have Crohn's ...

Um, so yeah, I went full-on into the internship. I stayed six months 'cause that was the longest I could stay in the-States before um, requiring a visa or- a work visa, a reason to be there. Um, this is unpaid internship. Um, worked like, sixty-hour weeks for six months.

Yeah, nothing really against its-- Florida itself, I just- I wouldn't want to live in the-States, like- I would probably- actually, no, I would move to Florida for a job, but I wouldn't just move there for like, "I'm gonna-" like, "oh, it's cool, I'll live there."

Actually, because of my time in Florida, I-think because I was living in the-States so close to when I went to South-Africa, a lot of them thought I was American. A lot of them did, until they actually like, compared me to an American, like when we had Americans right- like even Americans closer-- like from Michigan, like closer to Canada.

Certain people do, but most of them, like the m-- main group of people that I- like they were just like, "Oh, you're from The-States, you're American." It was like, "Yeah, okay." (laughs) But I would always correct them and say, "No, I'm Canadian."

Interviewer: So you- you could really see the American presence. Speaker: Oh very much so. See it and hear it. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Cause you could hear the drawl. That you could hear- hear their accent. And licence plates from everywhere in the States here.

I mean they brought a lot of money into the city. You-know they spent a lot of money here on food, on lodging, shopping. I mean people that came here from Amer-- from the States had money. They were rich enough to be able to do it. But I'm sure there were some people in North-Bay that thought they were a little- maybe a little arrogant but I didn't see that or hear that.

Interviewer: Ah. May-flies (inc). Speaker: Yeah and I've heard another name too and I can't- we were watching a T-V program- it was down in the States and I can't remember what they called it.

Speaker: I'm half-American. (laughs) Interviewer: Right, right. Speaker: My dad's originally from the-States. Interviewer: Do you have dual s-- citizenship? Speaker: No, I just haven't gone to get it. I could.

Ah, the G-Eight-Summit, in Huntsville I believe. Um, so all the representatives from France and Russia and the States and Canada will be landing at North-Bay's airport and moving from there.

Um an extended family ah is it cousins, aunts, and uncles. And the- the friends that we made, the relationships that we made at the cottage ah even from the States, like I'd ha-- I have- there's a fellow in- a retired stock-broker in- in um near Buffalo, Uncle-Sean. And he's not my uncle.

Um ah when he moved to the States, you-know, the- he didn't move to Toronto, he didn't move to Ottawa, he was moved to Vermont- he liked to ski so he left and- and we didn't see a lot of one an-- of each other.

I'd like to go back out and t-- tour my own country, but I'd like to see the east-coast of the States too.

Speaker: So, Sault-Sainte-Marie is English, and then second language Italian? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Wow. Interviewer: Because they have a sixty-five percent ah Italian population. Speaker: I didn't know they were that Italian. I thought you were going to say Spanish, because they were so close to the States. Interviewer: But yeah. Speaker: Huh.

So, like, when I was graduating high-school, it was big in, like, grade-seven, eight, nine years. And apparently, it's still big in th-- the States. What it is is, like, if it's black- don't judge. My elastic's black. If it's like- there's- different colours mean sexual favours.

Interviewer: Do you have like things that you want to do before you die? ... Speaker: Mm I would say road-trip somewhere, like somewhere in the States. I don't know where- Oh I have to go to the Grand-Canyon. Shoot. That's another thing. But I do want to go to Las-Vegas again so that can be combined.

And of course have our little parties (laughs). Little drinking obsessions. Ah, but and when- when I'm on leave, well I come home for ah couple day and then I got away, go down the States, ah visit my sister who was living there, married.