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TL: I'm wondering if you remember anything else about the trip over to Japan with your family because, oh, it must have been exciting and a big ship and --

HN: Oh, no.

TL: No?

HN: We got seasick.

TL: Oh.

HN: Because it went up towards Vancouver. It goes up north, and then it comes down and land in Yokohama. So I don't remember too much about the ride, but I know everyone was sick 'cause it is quite rough.

TL: Bad weather, perhaps?

HN: Bad weather.

TL: Do you remember if there were other Japanese families, or were you, kind of, there weren't too many other passengers?

HN: I can't remember. I remember the food wasn't that good.

HN: Well, and you probably weren't feeling too well either. What about when you arrived in Yokohama? Do you remember who met you and did it take a long time to get through customs or anything like that?

HN: I, I can't remember. It must have taken quite a while to go through custom. But we had to stay in a Yokohama hotel. And we thought, it's so different.

TL: How was it different?

HN: Because you had to go in one of these bathhouses. It wasn't private. You're in there with other people. And I remember we used to sit there and look out the window, and we see these school kids walking to school with uniforms on. We thought, gee, really different 'cause in America you just wear any clothes, but in Japan all the students were uniformed from kindergarten up to high school, through high school.

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