It was a good laugh, yeah. We had a good time. I got so burnt.
Interviewer:
Oh no, was it hot?
Jenna:
Yeah, well, hot for me,
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Jenna:
it was like 29 degrees, I was like--
Interviewer:
Oh, that's hot, that's definitley hot.
Jenna:
But yeah, it was a good laugh.
Interviewer:
How long did you go for?
Jenna:
Eh, four days, four days? Yeah, I think it was.
Interviewer:
Did she know you were coming?
Jenna:
No. We surprised her.
Kate:
So cute.
Jenna:
She-- she, like, I totally thought she was gonna have sussed it out but she didn't. So she got a surprise.
Interviewer:
Yeah. Do you reckon you'd ever do anything like that, like, study abroad?
Jenna:
Mm, it would be a good way to see the world, like,
Kate:
Yeah.
Jenna:
she's really glad she did it.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Jenna:
But then she can speak the languages
Interviewer:
Exactly.
Jenna:
so that makes a big difference.
Interviewer:
Yeah, that's true.
Jenna:
Um, I don't know. I don't really want to study, ever.
Interviewer:
Yeah, that's true, exams are not fun.
Jenna:
I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore.
Older speakers
Mary:
Well I gied off to Aberdeen to train as a teacher
Interviewer:
Oh yeah.
Mary:
and we stayed in a hostel again then which, oh, it was just a wonderful place compared to
Anne:
Compared to Orkney.
Mary:
Kirkwall hostel. My goodness, it was warm and they called you "Miss so-and-so". And you had white napkins. Oh dear, compared with warr we'd been. And yet, you see, there were lasses joining us who were leaving home
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Mary:
for the first time and they were so homesick and we'd been away for six years, we were--
Anne:
You were past-- yeah, you were by that.
Mary:
we were completely past that.
Anne:
Mhm.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Mary:
Em, so it was Aberdeen. I liked Aberdeen too. Enjoyed my time there and, eh, you didn't have much money as a student and we didna-- mean thenadays students didn't go out. We just didna have money for it.
