Todd: Now, Mark, you're from Canada.Mark: That's right.Todd: Where is it, actually, that you grew up?Mark: I was born in Montreal and I lived there for four years, the first four years but uh, I grew up in Calgary, which is Alberta, in the city of Banff.Todd: OK, so what was your childhood like?Were you into nature, or sports?Mark: Childhood I was into books.I was a big reader.I used to go the the library with my mother.And the first big trip I took overseas was when I was 14.Todd: OK, actually, on this trip where did you go?Mark: On this trip I went to Liverpool which is where my mother is from.So I went to Liverpool that time and Wales and Scotland and five or six trips after that.
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Teen Years
Teenagerjahre
Les années d'adolescence
10代
십대 시절
Lata nastoletnie
Anos de adolescência
Gençlik Yılları
Підлітковий вік
青少年时期
青少年時期
Todd: Now, Mark, you’re from Canada.Mark: That’s right.Todd: Where is it, actually, that you grew up?Mark: I was born in Montreal and I lived there for four years, the first four years
but uh, I grew up in Calgary, which is Alberta, in the city of Banff.Todd: OK, so what was your childhood like?Were you into nature, or sports?Mark: Childhood I was into books.
Mark: Als Kind habe ich mich für Bücher interessiert.
Mark: Çocukluğumda kitaplara meraklıydım.
I was a big reader.I used to go the the library with my mother.
Ich bin früher mit meiner Mutter in die Bibliothek gegangen.
And the first big trip I took overseas was when I was 14.Todd: OK, actually, on this trip where did you go?Mark: On this trip I went to Liverpool which is where my mother is from.So I went to Liverpool that time and Wales and Scotland and five or six trips after that.
