When Stephen was in grade two, he spent part of the year living in Canada and part of the year in England.

And he compared the two countries in his journal.

England is better than Canada.

England invented Canada.

They were so nice, though, that they let friends have Quebec.

That's Stephen reading from the journal he kept in grade two.

And this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.

I'm Dan Meisner.

This is a show where we invite courageous adults to share their childhood and teenage diaries, poetry, letters from camp, short stories, and other weird and wonderful things

their young minds came up with.

This time, recorded in front of a live audience at Fog Lounge in Windsor, Ontario. We have

stories about breaking up, getting fired, and dissing your home country. Sometimes the best way

to figure out who we are is to reflect on who we used to be. So think about who you were when you

were a kid. And stick around.

A minute ago, we heard from Stephen, who spent much of his childhood bouncing back and forth

between England and Canada. So as a kid, he had an English accent,

which didn't always go over well with his Canadian classmates.

Here's Stephen, reading a bit more from the journal he wrote to his grade two teacher.

People tell me how to speak words, and they are wrong.

Most people in Canada can't afford to go to England.

England is so cool, I love my grand. We live in a cool house when we were there. It is connected to other houses and a train drives right behind it.

My grand and me listen to the BBC.

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