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BY: All right. So what did you do after you got back from Japan? I understand that you may not want to talk about this, so if you don't want to talk about it, it's fine. So it's up to you if you want to talk about it or not.

HH: When I came back from Japan I went back to Seattle U, spent a few months there, then I transferred to Marylhurst College. And from there I graduated from Fort Wright College in Spokane.

BY: And Marylhurst is where?

HH: Oh, in Oregon.

BY: Okay, in Oregon, and then you ended up at Fort Wright College in Spokane?

HH: Spokane, and got my degree there.

BY: Okay, all right.

HH: Then I taught in Richland, Washington, about six years.

BY: So you became a teacher?

HH: Uh-huh.

BY: So what inspired you to become a teacher?

HH: I didn't want to become a medical technologist. I first enrolled as a technologist at Seattle U, and I decided that wasn't for me. I thought, well, what can I do? So I just decided to get some sort of degree, and it ended up being in education.

BY: Did you ever have a teacher or someone who, like a favorite teacher or somebody like, oh, I think I want to do that? Did that happen for you?

HH: No. I mean, I wanted to be kind of like them, but I didn't want to become, really a teacher, to be like them.

BY: Okay. And what subject did you major in or teach? Or grade?

HH: What did I teach? Yeah, I started it in fourth grade, then fifth grade. Yeah, elementary.

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BY: So getting back to your teaching career, so you got your degree and you taught in Richland for a few years. Again, so what grades did you teach?

HH: Mostly fourth and fifth.

BY: All right. And then you came to Seattle, is that right?

HH: Okay, from Richland, yes, I came to Seattle and taught, I think I taught two years and was in administration for two years, and then went to Spokane and taught, I believe it was the fifth grade for a couple of years.

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