My name is Louis Mischaud and I'm from Lafayette, Louisiana. We call it Pilate between Broussard and Lafayette. I went to church in school in Broussard. With two Lafayettes, it's kind of what I claim. My family is the New Orleans, the Faye des années, des années. The generations, my sister, are two Alafa Yad pa mal. I would say that, you know, I'm a Creole, Cajun. It's kind of a, you know, kind of all that put together. Creole would be my New Orleans side. The Mischauds came from Haiti via France. A lot of my other sides are like Spanish Creole from New Orleans, Marien, Regio. And my Mischaud ancestors left New Orleans because of his lungs, because of the air pollution with the coal and all that in the 1800s. We went up to Marksville and that's like a, you know, a big Frenchman, real Frenchman, the polianic Creole country. Then my great-grandpa went to Lafayette. They had my grandpa, they had my grandpa in Lafayette right there in Free Town. And my grandpa was the first generation to not be allowed to speak French. Everyone before that was French, was the first language. And a lot of them learned English. They, my grandpa, you know, was not allowed to speak French because his parents were both teachers. And that's how French had its demise in Louisiana. So my dad learned French on his own. I learned French on my own. My grandpa who died last year spoke a little bit of French. You didn't teach a kid's French because it was, you know, teaching him a lower class language and how to be poor. You know, and how to not be American. And then we realized, generation or two later, that it's actually much better to be bilingual. You know, it has nothing to do with that. It's so much more and it was, you know, it was really a product of like Americanization. So I learned French later on in my life. I speak French later on in 18th grade. I was in 14th grade, I learned it for myself. You were a little kid, I was a little kid. I was a little kid. I was a little kid. I was a little kid. I was in the illusion. Then I had a little brain with my family. You know. I said to my dad, don't speak French. My dad's father doesn't speak French. But no, my grandfather doesn't speak French. He was Italian, from New Orleans. But there's something that I wasn't listening to. Italian was believed as French. It was believed as French. It was believed as French. It changed the name of Joseph and Meletello to Frank Meleton. Like it was his son. And it changed to Meletello, which is called Meleton, a military. And it became a Melaton. And I didn't speak French because it was the highest class in Italian. But as I don't speak French, because I really just reconnected with my roots. And for me it's natural to speak French. It's something that became very clear when I started speaking. It's natural. Even if it's made in generations that don't speak to my own. And my wife is like the same story. My wife comes from a village called the village of Plot. And her grandfather, she didn't speak French just for the business. Because they had a store, the village of Plot. And they sell things. And she didn't speak French. But her grandfather, Luis, she didn't speak French. And for her, it's the same thing that I, that generation, it was like Basque class, it was low class, speak French. And that was also the Creole. And the people, it was Basque class. And Creole became a whole class. But in this way it's more racism, it's more like Creole, black and white people. But in the meantime, it was all Creole. Even if it was black or white, African, French, Spanish. And it was all black. And it's more like a completely different story. But for me, you know, French is just, I mean, the occasion for it's especially. So just on the cusp of, it's like I just wish I could take a walk with an old dude that knew their name of every damn plant and burn. And there's people like that, but it's just so, so rare and so few and far between. But we've been lucky too. And some people like that, that have taught us, you know, a lot, a lot in our, in our French. And you know, it's amazing where I live in Orteville. French is just completely, completely present. Like I can go to the grocery store in French, I can go to the doctor in French. And there's not many places like that, you know, today. There's some, but Orteville, theville flat with the whites from the have a radio show. Sometimes we can first people call in and so like so many people that still speak it. People are just coming around to realize the importance and that it's not a lower class thing, you know. So it's something that I connect with just very deeply. Music, I write all my stuff in French, you know, I don't write in English and translate it. It's a poetry, it's a, it's a lyric language, you know, and, and it goes with the rhythm of the music too, you know. Thank you.