Interviewer: How- are your- where your parents from? Are they from- were they born in Canada or-? Speaker: Yeah, uh-huh. Both my parents are born in Canada however all my aunts and uncles are born in Holland. And my grandparents are from Holland. They are the tall, blonde blue-eyed.

Speaker: So she can talk with some people, and they're like "oh does she have an accent, or why's she?" but they understand her. Interviewer: okay okay Speaker: Whereas people who are born deaf, they have a really hard time, 'cause they don't hear the echo, they don't know they're just like "(makes sound)" Interviewer: yes Speaker: and like "well we can train them," and you-know, just like forget it, we 'll just use our hands.

Interviewer: Did she travel? Speaker: No. She's- she's born and raised outside of Dallas. And didn't have a- like Susan-Banks on Buffalo- news is born and raised in Buffalo but she doesn't have a Buffalo-accent. You-know, the- the nasily- Interviewer: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know what? My boyfriend's parents live in Three- Valleys, so it 's a fifteen minute walk. They um are both born and raised in this neighbourhood. They still live in the neighbourhood. They're born and raised here.

So he said, "We narrow things down and then when we've narrowed things down," he said, "we talent-identify. As soon as we recognize a child that 's good," he said, "the best people in sport are born to it with their genes. Otherwise, they can't- they can't do it." Um and he said, "We would then take them to different coaches and different places and we'd take their life over, almost."

(inc) um, so yeah so he's got tons of buddies and most of them are born and raised here.

And parents took a bit more time with parenting. Because I mean mothers have always worked. It's nothing new. I mean if you're born in the wartime, if your father was either over-seas or he was working twelve-hour shifts, because what few men were left had to work and fill in for the men that weren't, so you didn't see your father that much ...

Speaker: Like out of the new volunteers and I think four of us share a birthday. Interviewer: That's ridiculous. Speaker: Or like not share a birthday but like are within like, you-know- Interviewer: A few days. Speaker: We're born within the first like week of February. Um and I know that at least two of the seasoned volunteers do. So like, that's like a quarter of TEACH within a week of like each other.

Speaker: ... as soon as you get closer to the volcano, the vegetation was much more like a tropical jungle, it was, it was wild, it was so wild to see. Interviewer 2: Probably animals too. Speaker: Ah, we didn 't, like yeah we didn 't see anything that time but we drove through this thing a little ways until I couldn 't do it anymore because of the car, but um, it was, it was crazy.

I mean the water damage alone, uh it just washed houses away, and um, and ah there was a trailer park just north of Lakeshore Road, big trailer park, well the trailers were being washed down, they 'd come under the bridge, someone would get caught at the, you-know the big centre p-- uh abutment, be caught there for a while and then it finally get loose and go right out the river.

Interviewer: And how long did you live in that neighbourhood? Speaker: I lived there for three years I think. Then we moved to five-Alexandra-Wood, which is few blocks north of there, um so I guess it's North-Toronto too. No, actually it was across the line in North-York. Um, and I lived there until I was fifteen. Then we moved to Forest-Hill-

Apparently friends of ours here in Toronto- they were on their honeymoon and we didn 't even know they 'd gotten married, and here, they bumped into them and as they say, they- you stand on the square long enough, you 'll meet somebody that you know, and they met them and- and apparently their hotel was across the way from ours.

Well, yeah, the people whose farm we were on and then there was another couple s-- and their child staying across the way and yeah, yeah, you get to, you-know, chat and everything. It 's- it 's nice.

And ah they had a- a big diving-platform, like a ten-meter diving-platform, and they had couple of diving- boards and they had two pools, olympic-size pools that were end-to-end. And um they had a- like a veranda affair along one, so you could- you could go there and watch. Becau-- and you could watch for free because the- this one guy, Don-Webb, he later on went to coach the olympic-team, eh?

Well then subsequently after I met my husband we would be at the Royal-York for New-Years-Eve and, and dance and that sort of thing. And then it was house parties and things like that. Yes. Private affairs.

Speaker: Yeah there was always something decent going on there over there (inc) you-know in uh- like Hamlin's-Point and Centre-Island and Ward's- Island, there was always some kind of an affair going on and- Interviewer: Festivals and fairs. Speaker: Yeah and something like that.

Interviewer: What about Christmas? What was the s-- way you used to celebrate Christmas? Speaker: Well Christmas is a family affair, and it still is with our family too. We always have Christmas together, uh, and, not always New-Year-s.

Um and that 's- the only good thing I can think of of my high-school education was the- our music teacher introduced us to musical theatre and classical music that I would not have been exposed to in the order of course of affairs, so that- that was good, so I- like- like Rogers-and-Hartt and things-like-that.

... the locker rooms were so big, people could put hot plates and different things in. So they claimed it was the wiring caught- then the next one was supposed to be a cigarette. It was in mid-winter and we had an affair downstairs and the fire-department said it was a cigarette had worked its way through an opening in the radiator, fell on a beam downstairs, and smoldered and caused a fire. But I know where the fire started.

... And my hair I-don-t-know what it 's going to be yet. I 'm still thinking up or down. And the guys they can 't wear running-shoes. They have to wear dress-shoes. ... No um the external-affairs which is the gir-- a person on the P-T-A who gets to plan the dances and like special events, they get to pick where they want it to be.