Quebec One - Text

Subject is white female, born 1952, Mont-joli, Canada, but a life-long resident of Quebec City. Recorded in Cairo, Egypt, 6/26/99 by Krista Scott, where she had been living and working as a faculty co-ordinator for six years. Her English is a little halting and her French accent quite strong. Interview edited 10/26/99 by Paul Meier. Running time: 00:03:27.

TRANSCRIPTION

Um, I’m Louise Seigneuret from Quebec City, Canada. I’m 47 years old. I was born in a very little town named Mont Joli, in Gaspésia. Um, I grown up…far…I grown up, you know, in this area, Mont Joli and then I moved further nord…north. And, ah, I spent 20 years in Quebec City. And I live in a…in a very, ah…very nice part of Quebec City—in the historic part of the town. And I love it.

I like architecture a lot. And it was…I was surrounded by all the architecture from the, um, 18, 17 century. And I think it’s the, um, most beautiful city in the Quebec province. And I came in Egypt in, ah, ’93 and, ah, I love Egypt too. And I hope I will stay here for a long time. And I…I’m working at the American University in Cairo. I am the faculty services coordinators…coordinator. And I like this job a lot too. And because I have to meet all the faculty of the university.

I think people from Quebec City are very…ah, I mean they are, I think they’re also sharp people…ah and the witty talk to the…the new-comers, ah, in the city. And, ah…and when I came here in Egypt, some colleagues of mine told me that they wanna have relatives in Quebec. Ah, they told me that in a way the, ah, Egyptian look like the, ah, Quebecers. Especially the one from, from Quebec because they’re…sometimes act the same when they see new-comers in their town. And they are not snob and, ah, snobbish, or whatever, I mean…And I think this is true.

Transcribed by Mitchell Kelly, January 15, 2008