It Used to Be So Much Fun
Start Time |
Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey |
English |
00:00 |
Iya, mecimi weckuwi-maceki |
Yeah. When I was growing up |
00:03 |
tehpu ntalay, |
I always used to be playing around, |
00:05 |
on-oc npeci-kotuhpin. |
and I'd start to get hungry. |
00:08 |
Naciphan nikk berries. |
I'd go get those berries. |
00:10 |
Npossonalokittiye-aliyan nil pasture |
I'd go over every bit of the |
00:12 |
yali-kiluwuhuk berries. |
"pasture" looking for berries. |
00:15 |
Aluwehta mecimiw kceyawiwok, |
Even though there used to be a lot of them, |
00:18 |
anqoc-ona nsiwi-ihin nit, apc |
sometimes I'd get tired of being there, |
00:20 |
nmaceliqahan sitomok. |
and then I'd take off for the shore. |
00:21 |
Anqoc eci-miliyay-ona sitomok, |
Sometimes I'd play all kinds of games |
00:23 |
natayyan house, dollhouse, playhouse. |
on the shore, too, then go to the dollhouse, the playhouse. |
00:26 |
Cel nit bed kiste. |
And there'd be a bed already made there. |
00:27 |
Mm-hmm. |
Mm-hmm. |
00:28 |
Iya, eci meciwiw wikuwaceyikpon |
It used to be so much fun |
00:29 |
weckuwi-maceki. |
when I was growing up. |
00:32 |
Toke wasisok, toke, "I'm bored, |
Nowadays the children are "I'm bored, |
00:33 |
I'm bored," toke. Ma-te keqsey wen |
I'm bored." No one wants to make |
00:35 |
koti-winpasiw keq 'tolluhkan toke. |
any effort to do something now. |
00:36 |
Nama. |
No. |
00:38 |
No |
- No. |
00:39 |
Tehpukc lamikuwam |
They're just indoors and |
00:40 |
naka nit 'tahtolayyektuniya... |
constantly playing with those... |
00:43 |
Layyektakonol. |
Toys. |