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{SPEAKER name="Libby Hathaway/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
beds very neat and clean. Suppose if er one student did not make their bed just right, neat and it was messed up the supervisor would come over and rip it up and you'd have to do it over. The pillow had to be just fluffed, just right, corners just right.

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We'd have to mop our bedrooms every morning before going to school.

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Like one day I thought I'm really bored of cleaning my room. So decided to tried to fool the house parent by just sweeping around the edges of the bed, not to get under it.

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And I told the supervisor I'm done, she said good and I walked, she walked to get her flash light and she looked under the bed and there was all these clumps of dust, it was obviously it dusty I hadn't don, I hadn't mopped it. I had to do the whole thing over.

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But it taught us good manners where we ate. Eat properly.

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Always be in a long formal lines. Little kids, big line to the big kids. Girls in one line, boys in the other, march to the dining room.

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And also march to school.

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When I grew up the rules begin to change a lot. Boys and girls could eat together, socialize, when we were young we were separated.

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Been other privileges change, we'd go to town during the week.

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We had nothing to do to go out, it maybe raining, stay in the dorm. Invent different kinds of games.

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We were never bored, we always kept ourselves quite busy and we had a lot of fun in school too. I went to The Maryland School for the Deaf.

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What kind of games did you use in school? For example, well they were really very, for example, uh, we played buzz, you'd have a circle and each one would start with a number 1, and go 2-3-4 you get to 5, you couldn't say 5 you had to say buzz.

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If you were careless and you got like to 10 you were out if you said 10 instead of buzz, and A-B-C stories we would do