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.

Interviewer: Okay, give me your drink. Give me your beer. Speaker: Fuck off! Interviewer: No give it. What am I doing right now? Speaker: Double-fisting it. Interviewer: That's right! They don't have that down there.

Oh when I was ah very young, we played ah on outdoor rinks in the winter, sliding- ah we used to slide down the sides of the tailings-dams. And try to make our own little avalanches on the drifts and jumping in drifts, jumping off garages and into the snowbanks and getting stuck up to waist-high snow and trying to dig yourself out. Ah we had kick-the-can, we had ah hide-and-seek, ah you-know ...

And I says- we're taking this guy- called- his name was Andrew. We're taking Andrew out. He was a miner, a drift miner. And he had a bad habit after a blast. Instead of scaling before he started mucking, he'd walk in and try to get- get ready to- to drill where the guys mucking eh? And Gerard knew him and says "Andrew, you got a bad habit."

No, my mom stayed at home; she ah collected a D-V-A pension.

So, we had the due and everything else fine and dandy.

Okay. Fine-and-dandy. It's- it's kind-of difficult at seventeen years of age, you-know?

Speaker: But ah of-course, two ah huh mm two similars don't always ah match up. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: So there was always brawls or- you-know, you write down the fisticuffs and...

But you-know, I've known her for a long time, and everybody that knows her, they- they really doesn't- you-know. They know what she's like and she talks like that and doesn't really fizzle on you, you-know, when you're used to hearing her. But I thought, "My word!" y-- (laughs). She can sure come up with words and you think, "Where in the world?" you-know.

... super sweet and the next day she'll be like a huge crazy bitch who's like psycho about everything. And um she always wants her store looking fine and perfect and stuff and then like she's not bad to have around, but it's like annoying 'cause she'll flip-shit any two seconds. And then I have my other- like another manager who is- she's super chill and she's su-- like she'll buy us Timmies and she'll let us go do whatever we want- ...

So I bring it up to the teacher and said "Miss, look what I found." And the teacher flipped out! And she told me I was going to die, pretty much. Or at least that's the way it felt like 'cause she was flipping shit. So here I was thinking I was going to die. Then just turns out I was okay.

Like, friends if I want to go four-wheeling, friends if I want to like party hard, or friends if I want to just chill and hang out, read a book (laughs).

So either we'll go fishing, or ice fishing (laughs), four-wheeling, make- I-don't-know, we always do something- we'll go for a drive to Timmins or down the road and- there's always- I think there- sometimes we don't use our time wisely and we just lollygag, but we go biking in our- I think there's always something to do.

I-don't-know, ever since we were kids like he'd take us four-wheeling and take us skidoing and-everything and he'd make us do really hard things like- like we'd play hide-and-seek but it'd- it would be extreme hide-and-seek.

Um, we go- we do a lot of tubing and four-wheeling.

I don't know what it is, like, our Franglais? Or-whatever (laughs), but.

And swear in English and French and- and he. Interviewer: Sounds- sounds pretty accurate, yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Franglais yeah.

Um it's- it's a- it's almost a- we sometimes call it Franglais. A- it's that combination of English and French you-know where people will speak their sentence in French and half in English. Ah they'll use English words in their French sentences.

Speaker: (laughs) It's french! Yeah, no. There's some fishing words too but I can't think of what they are. The other thing that you hear a lot here I think is the um ah French-English slang. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Franglais?