Or me and my friends or whatever but she was like you-know, kind of not always in the best mood type-thing you-know-what-I-mean?

I was like, "F you, you flipped my desk," (laughs) in the middle of the room but he got in lots of trouble like after that 'cause that was like his third strike type-thing and ah-

I turned around and I'm like, "You talking to me or the dog?" type-thing and she's all "You scared the dog," or-whatever and just to the same why he's so nervous, there was huge another bike, like a street-bike coming by on the road and ah her brother's like, "Well, that- your bike scared him, this bike's really going to scare the (inc) type-thing."

It's actually a big, giant pit in the ground (inc) yeah. It's what mine- miners' shafts or-whatever that caved in from Lakeshore, and ah other than that, there's like- there's lots of like rock-type-things, you-know, you go see these cliffs in Larder, you can actually go jump off the- the board four feet high.

The only downfall would be is that people talk, people talk everywhere you-know and it's just- basically, like we're in love, he should- he-said, she-said, that type-things, sometimes I have more relevance than-

So the boss always wanted a stable out there for horses and just a little riding pen or (inc) type-thing and ah he never got to do that ah but-

Push and pull type-thing and that's Kirkland-Lake, the best way to describe it.

That used to be a clothing-store. And like working all the way basically down to T-D-Canada-Trust there was almost a store- a decent store too, like clothes, like you-know kind-of like a Walmart type-thing. Um but it was- it was awesome.

I'm on the Library-Committee, the Museum-Advisory-Committee, Tech-Pioneer, Residents-Committee, um Finance-Committee, um Temiskaming-Municipal-Association, so that's representatives from Temiskaming area that come in whether be organized, non-organized, there are representatives that come and sit in and um it's more of a policy procedure type-thing.

And they're building another um, two more of them I-think but lower like in a half-moon type-thing.

Oh, I could still hear him singing that. And he'd be sitting on the veranda.

I- meanwhile, I'm on my veranda, and it's gated in. And I'm too small to climb over.

And the- the things ah, on the veranda they were like- I could never put my body through them.

And I was (makes gibberish sounds). Total strangers. And this happened anytime I was on the veranda that I was aware. I'd watch for them. Me and my little cat.

Interviewer: And you're in what grade? Speaker: Grade- well this is my second year of grade-twelve. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: Yeah. So. Interviewer: S-- Speaker: Victory lap. Interviewer: Ah, yes, I hear about this. What's the deal with this thing? Speaker: The victory lap? Well I-don't-know, it's just an extra year of high-school to get your grades up, to take courses that you missed. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Or, yeah. Like, a lot of places don't do it, but, ah, teachers encourage it here. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: It's just- well yeah, it's just an extra year to prepare yourself ...

Speaker: Fi-- fifth year's enough. It's kind-of like- it's kind-of like when you finish like a really long race and then you have to do one more lap. Or just do it again. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And just kind of wander afterwards. Interviewer: Well this is what I'm hearing, the victory lap, this term has come up about a thousand times since I've been here. Speaker: Yeah. Everyone's doing it now. Like every- everyone in the school it seems.

Speaker: We have some pretty cool spots on it like um right at the end there's rapids, little rapids and we call it Pickerel-Rapids because that's where you get some pickerel, ah, pickerel like walleye, do you-know what walleye is? Interviewer: Um, a fish? Speaker: Yeah, it's a fish. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: I- I say pickerel but I think walleye is the right term for it, I think- I think pickerel's sort-of like the Canadian version of walleye, it's the same thing but that's the word we use for it.

I suppose so, yeah. Well when I'd left- no, no that- I'm jumping ahead of myself a wee bit here. I went to diamond-drilling

And Scottish terminology, "wee bairn" and-things-such-as-that that, ah, I grew up, ah listening to. Ah, they never did- my grandmother particularly never did lose her accent completely. Even though she was here for many, many years. My grandfather lost it a bit. My father and ah uncles and- two uncles on that side never had the accent whatsoever.

And I had- one of my sons was al-- ha-- ha-- al-- had allergies. So ah, there was no pets. The only pet I think we had was a turtle. Was little wee turtles (laughs).