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.

Like people who did really well in high school, they might do really well. But they might not. Like the physicist, like the guy who's a physicist, he got seventy-fives in O-A-C, now he's getting ninties, ninties in university. He's like one of the top physics students. Just 'cause he's interested in it. If you go in something you're interested in. Like some of these engineers.

... but the English teacher was weird though. You'd really like him, like, I don't see how anyone could not. He's a doctor man! Doctor Pryor! Why is a doctor teaching English O-A-C? It's like.

Speaker: So then we should, giving some balance right? Why is Shakespeare taught every single year? Let's get different playwrites. I don't know. I think Shakespeare's great but. Interviewer: They need to teach Shakespeare last then. Speaker: Yeah yeah, O-A-C, you build up. Yeah, exactly, that's when you totally when you understand. Interviewer: Or maybe second last, we could have modern playwrites, have a little Samuel-Beckett. Why didn't do Samuel-Beckett?

Speaker: Grade-ten was just more like when um, when we are all like dirty rockers and got like chased around and Interviewer: yeah totally Speaker: threatened like everyday Interviewer: yeah, didn't Dan get initiated right to O-A-C? Speaker: probably Interviewer: yeah he did (both laughing) (inc)

Speaker: Not really good at the maths or sciences so journalism that type of stuff. It's my strong point I guess. English. Interviewer: Have you noticed anything different this year than in previous years? Speaker: In terms of what? Interviewer: I guess your- they- they've weeded out ah O-A-C now right? Speaker: Um there's still some O-A-Cs around. Like they're- they still kept some O-A-C courses around but more-or-less the majority of O-A-Cs are like taken like they got rid of them. Just like the main ones like there's Law O-A-C. There's still English O-A-C but just those main ones are still around but that's just for this year I think.