And- but the old timers made Christmas cake. The old timers did down peaches and pears and tomatoes. Everything was- they took the beef and they put the beef in and they did it down at- like you had jars- jars of beef in your- in your cupboards.

Speaker: ... like all the kids, eh. But some don't have no respect, they don't care and they just talk the way they want to talk. Interviewer: Right. Okay. Speaker: Like with the years back, you didn't find that.

Speaker: I'll just stay insi-- I have my friends that go to different schools in South-End, and it's just a lot easier. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah 'cause- Interviewer: So then- Speaker: I don't have- no, I don't have anyone from Saint-Joseph really.

Interviewer: Okay. And ah do you- do you find then that- that's a problem now with- with the new curriculum to this day that- that kids aren't getting the proper ah training in English that they should be? Speaker: Yup, I think so. They don't have no phonics in the early grades no more, like they'd- like before they used to really work on the phonics.

Speaker: ... otherwise if we would have been spoiled like, some of these kids today when I look back at some of these kids today, it's unbelievable. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: You know and I think you know it yourself- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: When you look back like, these kids have no respect, they don't have no- I don't know, pride, they don't- you-know, the respect I think is the big thing and for themself, they have no ambition.

Interviewer: And you- are most people involved with the legion hall here? Speaker 2: Not anymore. Speaker: What you call- what you call a white elephant. Interviewer: A white elephant? Speaker: Yeah. You know what that is, don't you? Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: A done-digger. Interviewer: A what? Speaker: A done-digging. Speaker 2: See this is- Interviewer: What's a done-digging, I haven't heard of that. What's- Speaker: Too many people filling their pockets out of it. Interviewer: Done-digging, uh-huh.

Interviewer: And you- are most people involved with the legion hall here? Speaker 2: Not anymore. Speaker: What you call- what you call a white elephant. Interviewer: A white elephant? Speaker: Yeah. You know what that is, don't you? Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: A done-digger. Interviewer: A what? Speaker: A done-digging. Speaker 2: See this is- Interviewer: What's a done-digging, I haven't heard of that. What's- Speaker: Too many people filling their pockets out of it. Interviewer: Done-digging, uh-huh.

nd it was a stupid thing that they- they were drinking of-course and ah they got into a little bit of a donnybrook and ah it wasn't a serious thing. He- they'd s-- saw some kids playing hockey and they jumped out of the car and the kid dropped his hockey stick and Darien picked it up and took it in the car with him and twenty yards down the road, threw it out the car and on to the road again.

Um my second daughter, boy she was a doozy, lie with a straight face. (whispers) Oh my God, she was bad.

Yeah totally gone yeah mm-hm. There's a- there's a drive-in locally that's out- out towards I-think it's on County-road-four. Ah Mus-- I think it's called the Mustang-Drive-In. So w-- every-now-and-then ah Lynn and I go there and- and- and watch a double bill or-something-like-that yeah and- but it just doesn't seem to have the same um feel that the ah the Belleville-Drive-In- I think because basically ah you- you went to a drive-in mostly because all your buddies were gonna be there and it was just kind-of a party.

Interviewer: So what were you talking about you're- double cohort? Speaker: Yeah, and I was talking about the double cohorts and they were saying like, "Oh yeah, I think they're going-to raise the standard-." No, she said- she didn't say, "I think," she said, "Yeah, they're going to raise the stan-- the accep-- the number of people they're going to accept for each programme.

Speaker: I'm more like, humanities, and not really sciences and stuff, so, it wasn't really- I didn't really enjoy it, and plus it made fast-tracking a lot more difficult. Like I had decided in grade nine that I was going to do it, because- Interviewer: The whole double-cohort thing? Speaker: Yeah, I had heard about the double-cohort, so I was-like, "You-know what? It would just be easier." And I knew I could do it so it wasn't that big a deal. But um, like I didn't have time to- 'cause they- in later years, you had to take- they- they gave more prerequisites ...

Interviewer: But like yeah, I- don't-know, your frosh week won't be as much fun I guess. Speaker: But this year is the double cohort, so everybody's all worried about admissions and things like that. We were planning the prom, the, grad night, and that too was.

Interviewer: You know Jalal, he wants to be a math professor. You two should go at it. You two should be the first math professors. That's what you want to be right? A math professor? Speaker: Or like a math teacher. The thing is, with U-of-T, I have the double cohort, right there, and I think that sucks. And if I'd applied to it this year, then there would have, I could have.

And uh so every year I take one- one or two courses that are a year-ahead, so you-know more than uh fast-tracking, because uh they don't really let you do that now, well with the double-cohort and what-not, but uh I 'm just kind-of trying to keep my options open, 'cause uh from what I hear, you hand in your top six uh your M marks-

... when I was in high- school, um, cause you were like, you have, you take different classes but you generally see the same people all the time because um, there was only like forty people in my grade and then when I graduated, there was a hundred-and-fifty cause of double-cohort but then, there were lots of cliques there so I- I- I got to know so many people. And at the beginning, like in grade nine and ten, I'd be close to one person for one week and then, close to another person the second week.

... the sense that people are stepping over on other people's backs to get what they need or want and um that didn't happen. There wasn't any of that um I- I had an imaginary sense of competition just- just because like the double-cohort and everything but um, there- there was never really any like um stepping over other people's backs or anything like that.

Interviewer: Are there a lot of rookies on the team? Speaker: Uh actually there are this year because of the double-cohort but I have to say there's probably about like seven or eight which is a lot compared to like last year, I think the turnover was two so.

Yeah, even though I lived so close I missed a lot of school and that wasn't very good considering well mainly my last year because it was the whole double cohort and I'd probably should have been--went to school more often. But now I 'm going to school in Mississauga. I am actually going more often which is kind-of a surprise because it's so far.

Speaker: And then school started and then I guess it was all- all the concern about double- cohort year oh, how am I going to get into university et-cetera, et-cetera so all this worrying and panic and I found that mm people generally around me were very unhappy, people were always stressed out about marks ...