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LT: What about Japanese school? Because having lived in Japan and studied in Japan, did that help?

SI: Well, they just... I guess it did. I don't remember too much about it. But it was just reading, so they had Japanese school books was used in lower grade reading books, stories and stuff.

LT: So in your Japanese school, how many students were there?

SI: Oh, there was quite a few, I think. I got a picture of... it's in the other thing, of Dee school kids, and my god, there was about, seemed like there was over a hundred people there.

LT: At the Dee Japanese school?

SI: Yeah. It was quite a few.

LT: And what about your classroom at Dee, your grade school? How many students were there?

SI: Oh, just exactly classmates, there was about three or four about my age. But there was a lot older than I am and younger than I was. There was a lot more.

LT: Do you have any idea about how many?

SI: I never did count 'em. I don't know.

LT: Okay, that's okay.

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