00:00Tell me, how old were you when you went to Macedonia with the dance troupe?
00:06Uh, 30?
00:0930?
00:13That's 31?
00:15How old are you now?
00:17I'm 50 years old.
00:18Jeez, I thought you were a lot younger than that.
00:20Oh, you get that a lot, do you?
00:22Yeah.
00:23I get that a lot.
00:24You get that a lot.
00:26So, was that the first time you'd been overseas?
00:28Yes.
00:30And what did you think of the plane trip?
00:32Oh, I thought it was scary.
00:37From the runway.
00:40But I had to just drink positive.
00:44And what was it like doing the performance?
00:46Were you nervous?
00:47Nah.
00:48Oh, I knew my dancing and things like that.
00:51I'm proud of what I did.
00:52Yeah.
00:52I thought I'm Aboriginal man because I'm gunning on coonine.
00:56Um, and standard of the Yuin as well as, um, standard of the Whamba Whamba Mall.
01:02So, that's, that's who I am.
01:04Yeah.
01:04And that.
01:05But I lived in, um, Wollongong for over 26 years now.
01:09Mm.
01:10And been here for a long time.
01:12So, yeah.
01:14So, that's...
01:14And what did the Macedonian people, did they know much about Aboriginal Indigenous people?
01:19No, there's a lot of strain that does go over there between, um, um, Scorpio and Oxford.
01:24Because Oxford is the beautiful place in, um, on, um, on the lake.
01:28Because it's a big, big lake.
01:31And Oxford is, uh, like, an attraction area and things like that.
01:34Because, like, their, um, money in that country is, um, not that great.
01:38But, um, yeah, it was, um, just, um, experience that.
01:44They, first time they ever seen Aboriginal people from, like, a cultured person from a different country.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Yeah.
01:51Yeah.
01:52Yeah.
