Our Hometown
Berlin | Yvonne Thomas
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Yvonne recalls growing up in Berlin, and speaking two languages in school.
Yvonne recalls growing up in Berlin, and speaking two languages in school. She also remembers her first and last time picking blueberries on Mt. Forest.
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Berlin | Yvonne Thomas
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Yvonne recalls growing up in Berlin, and speaking two languages in school. She also remembers her first and last time picking blueberries on Mt. Forest.
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went to school?
We didn't speak English.
We only spoke French at home.
So when we arrived in school, first grade, it was the first time we ever saw.
there.
They're talking something different here.
Yeah.
Your parents didn't warn you?
The only.
No, they didn't know.
They.
The only three words I knew in English when I went to school was I don't know .
And I didn't know what it meant.
But I knew if you said that people sort of took it and went away.
And what was different about our school is that we did we were it was a bilingual school.
So we did every morning we did English the whole morning we would start out with the Pledge of Allegiance and yeah, every subject that you would have in a regular school in English.
And then in the afternoon, the entire afternoon was in French.
So you changed language.
And so then in the afternoon you went in to your afternoon class at 1:00 and you spoke French for that for 3 hours and you learned about the history of Canada.
And yes, we started with the history of Canada.
We know and the entire thing about how the the people, the French people came to Canada.
Yeah.
And we would do geography, history, French language, we would do grammar, everything in French Okay.
What was the name of your school?
My school was Angel Guardian.
Angel.
Guardian.
It was on the east side.
It's still standing today and it's I think camp try and camp uses it now.
So was it a Catholic school?
It was a Catholic school.
Yes.
So your teachers were nuns?
They were nuns, yes.
And presentation of Mary.
Nuns.
They came from Canada.
And they would.
So we all went to school in this for eight years in this bilingual system?
So when you graduated, you your.
You were barely bilingual?
And so I thought I was.
I was a good way of teaching languages.
Sure.
Because you were you.
You were totally immersed in, you know, we need to noon.
You switched over that set.
Your brains switched over to French.
Yeah.
And you were totally immersed.
Yeah, I was.
Thought that was a very good way of teaching languages in some any language, really?
then.
That's.
Were you actually harder on the boys than they were in the girls?
They did have a ruler and the boys would get the ruler.
The girls.
Not so that we, you know, we didn't have that didn't happen to us.
Did you get a stern look.
We got stern looks.
Yes, Very, very stern looks.
But that was okay.
and we were big blueberry pickers.
Yes, we blueberry picked every afternoon all summer long.
And one of our girlfriends lived in.
But we this we she lived in what we call Saint Joseph area.
Which is where Mount Forest is.
Yes.
So we went to visit Lucille one day and she said, Bring your buckets.
We'll go.
berry picking.
Sure.
Okay.
So we brought up buckets.
And Lucille, we did not know climb Mount Washington.
I mean Mount Forest every day from what I could see.
And so she you know, that rock face, you see.
Yes.
We climbed up that rock face picking blueberries.
You could and if you had a misstep, you could easily kill yourself.
Yes.
yes, Yes.
I guess children in that area did it all the time.
But I only did that one day.
That was a never again.
That was too scary for me.
That steep rock face.
Very steep rock face.
Yes.
And the blueberries were the blueberries were there.
And, you know, you could pick them.
It wasn't a broad Berlin blueberries from that great.
And from the rocks we used, we had our own places to go pick.
So we.
Okay.
Yeah, but no blueberry picking was something they children every single day, all summer long.
Yeah.
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