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TI: So going back to the school, so you have Chinese and Japanese, what was school like for you? Did you like school?

WM: [Shakes head]

TI: Why?

WM: Oh, it didn't register with us. [Laughs]

TI: And then did you like sports? Was that kind of more fun?

WM: Exercise.

TI: Because after you finished regular school, the Japanese then went to Japanese school?

WM: Yeah, after school, got to go to one hour of Japanese school.

TI: And so which one did you like better, the regular school or Japanese school?

WM: It was the same to me, but Japanese was pretty hard.

TI: And when you think of the teachers, the regular school and the Japanese language school, how did the teachers compare?

WM: Japanese teacher were better.

TI: Were better? And why do you say that? Why were they better?

WM: They teach you nice, but this school, they got to teach everybody, so, pretty hard for them.

TI: So when you say... say that again. So the Japanese school were better because... I didn't quite understand. Why were they better? They were nicer, you said?

WM: Yeah.

TI: And so were the regular school, they were more strict?

WM: Strict, I guess.

TI: Okay, so they had to discipline people more, maybe.

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