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BN: Now did you, so you're back in your house, new house, and you're going to school, what did you do after you finished school?

SI: After school I went to the... before I go work, the first one I went to my father's friend's store, helped there. I don't know how long I was there, maybe six months, helped the store. And I went out to the... oh, I think... I went out Itoman city, I want go to help the... not the countryside, the city side, the help in my father's friend's store, help, and I met the one, my friend, and he interest me go to the, his place, this Naha... American, the soldiers' place. The Chinese was owner, owned shoe store. I went work over there. That was, I think he took me go to... you know the gun no shigoto. What's that one name? Naha? Those days, the [inaudible] Naha now. This is American soldier place, that I'm working for there. The Chinese man was the owner. And he talking to Japanese, I don't know. [Laughs] We're not talking, just working. We're not talking, because I don't know, I don't understand what he talking. Yeah, he's Chinese. But I wasn't working there too long. After that, where I working? Oh, after that I think I went quit over there. After that I go teach kindergarten. [Laughs] I quit over there.

BN: And you taught the kindergarten back in your village?

SI: Yeah, I teach in the kindergarten.

BN: Did you have much interaction with Americans in the years after the war? Did you see or, I mean...

SI: I was working inside American...

BN: For the Chinese?

SI: Yeah. This is inside.

BN: So it was on a, on the base?

SI: Yeah, in the base, in the base.

BN: But in your village, did you see, were there...

SI: No, we don't see.

BN: Not really, okay.

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