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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And I was sent there in the little girl, to where the little girl's dorm was. And I started crying, I want my cousin with me, I don't want to be alone.

[00:20:25]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So the house mother went over to ask if my cousin would move from her, the older dorm, to the little kiddies uh dorm for one night. And of course my cousin did not like that. I have to sleep in the little girl's room? Ugh.

[00:20:43]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Anyway she was there in the next bed and I was looking around, it was dark, so such a strange place and went to sleep in the morning. Early, before they turned the lights on, kids started waking up and started playing, throwing things, the pillows were flying, OH this is fun.

[00:21:02]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
But I did have mixed emotions for the first year or so. Sometimes it was fun, sometimes I wanted to be home, but gradually I started to enjoy my life at the residential school.

[00:21:14]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Thanks

[00:21:14]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
What about you Dick? What about your residential life at the deaf school? Can you share that with us?

[00:21:21]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Yes, uh, we also would get up early in the morning, but we'd have to clean our beds and keep them nice and neat, and straight. If a supervisor would see it messed up would rip the whole bed up and make us start over. I'd have to do it again and make it right nice and neat and we'd have to line up in a nice straight line to go to eat and then we'd go on off to school for the day.

[00:21:42]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And then after school we'd play sports for the afternoon.

[00:21:48]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We had to keep our dorms clean I remember that always cleaning and mopping every day.

[00:21:57]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Libby, you're talking about your schools, I remember when I went into school I was 8. I was rather late because I'd come over from Europe.

[00:22:05]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And I was scared, very scared. It was a new experience for me to go into a school. And all these clothes we had to bring. And uh, everybody was so good to me. All these different languages were coming and trying to figure out communication.

[00:22:21]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
After a while I really loved it. As I look back all this group it was like she said, you know all the beds and everything we share the different problems, we shared our create