Ontario Six - Text
The speaker is male, born Toronto, Ontario, 1983 of an Afghani family. Recorded by Mark Ingram and his students, November 2005. Edited by Paul Meier, September 9, 2006. Running time 00:03:46.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Well, I was kind of risky in high school when I signed up for universities—like, I signed up for Ryerson, (uh) York and Waterloo. At Waterloo, I signed up for the geography co-op honors program. And (um) I was psyched to go into that. I thought if I didn’t get into York or (unclear) Ryerson, I’d just go there, right? But I was kind of afraid of the audition process and stuff, so I didn’t even go to Ryerson. And I didn’t hand in anything for (uh) Waterloo, so, like, I think—I thought they—‘cause like I had to fill out, like, an essay and fill out these forms and all that shit and I didn’t do it. So I thought, okay, well, yeah, (uh) Waterloo isn’t going to accept me so I go (unclear), okay, well, now I have to go to York, then. So (um) the audition for York was in April, just after my birthday, and I auditioned for it. And I remember, like, driving there. I was so scared. I—I remember crying on the way there ‘cause I was just so scared. ‘Cause I was on my own. No one else was there. It was just me. I didn’t know anyone there. It was—ah, it was a harrowing experience. So I ended up at York. But the funny thing is, I could’ve went to Waterloo, ‘cause, like, even though I didn’t fill out their shit, they still accepted me, so how good of a program was that? Like how—it’s kind of ridiculous. So, yeah, I’m at York, you know, and then—well, once I was at York, I figured out that there was a faculty program that—you know, they cut us down further. (Uh) So I’m just like, well, yeah, I’d like to get into that because, just, (uh) I’m a competitive guy and if I didn’t get into that, then I’d feel like, oh, why did I even come here, then? But that’s the thing. If I didn’t get in, I would’ve been just as happy doing geography or something else like maybe languages or—or something, so. So I don’t know. (Uh) I got, uh, here I am at York, you know. In the fourth year. (Uh) I say—I keep thinking that what I—I would be such a different person if I didn’t get into the acting program or if I had not have gotten into the acting program.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JOHN WRIGHT 15 MAY, 2008. AMENDED BY MARK INGRAM, AUGUST 30, 2008.