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TY: [Jpn.] Well, after you moved to Sunnydale...

MK: [Jpn.] Yes.

TY: [Jpn.] South Park is close to Seattle, would you say?

MK: [Jpn.] Yes. I went to South Park after arriving in the U.S.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes, was it close to Seattle?

MK: [Jpn.] Yes.

TY: [Jpn.] How many Japanese were there in that neighborhood?

MK: [Jpn.] No, it was just a village, a small village.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] There were. But I never talked with them.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh.

MK: [Jpn.] You just go in, work and eat...

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] You sleep and work again.

TY: [Jpn.] Then your father, Mr. and Mrs. Araki, and a neighbor lady who did the cooking...

MK: [Jpn.] Yes, and then late...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes?

MK: [Jpn.] Mrs. and Mr. Araki went to Pike Place Market...

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Do you know Pike Place Market?

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, yes.

MK: [Jpn.] They took the flowers, the flowers they grew, and also other flowers they bought from another place...

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] They took those to Pike Place...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Then they did business there.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, yes, yes, yes.

MK: [Jpn.] They sold there.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, did Mr. and Mrs. Araki speak English?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah, a little. It was broken English. You know.

TY: [Jpn.] Did your father speak English?

MK: [Jpn.] No, no. My father and I worked in the greenhouse.

TY: [Jpn.] Then you didn't have to speak English...

MK: [Eng.] No. No.

TY: [Jpn.] You did not meet anybody.

MK: [Jpn.] Even if I don't speak English, the plants were silent. It is all right if I don't speak English. [Laughs]

TY: [Jpn.] But you spoke with your father all the time.

MK: [Jpn.] No.

TY: [Jpn.] Speak...

MK: [Eng.] No, too busy.

TY: [Eng.] Yeah.

MK: [Eng.] And different kind of work, so... he working over there, and I working this way. And so --

TY: [Jpn.] Then, no one...

MK: [Eng.] -- I never talk with my father either.

TY: [Jpn.] Then you hardly spoke.

MK: [Jpn.] No.

TY: [Jpn.] What were you thinking while working?

MK: [Jpn.] Oh, I had to finish my work quickly. So I could not think of anything else.

TY: [Jpn.] You had no time to think.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. I was too busy. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] That's hard work. No time to rest or get sick.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. I worked without a break.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes.

TY: [Jpn.] Then even if there were other Japanese there, you didn't have a chance to talk with them and Sunnydale...

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