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Show A H RP 10 2 01 bit. And so I went to grade school and that was run by the nuns. And th n it wa trictly girls no coed. BEC: Oh. I see. ANN: And then on till high school. And they had different kind of high schools there. You could go, if you wanted to go into business, like being a secretary or something like that, they had one particular typist school, where you would learn to business type and typing and so on. And then they had a high school where that leaned more toward the domestic, like sewing and cleaning and learning how to do laundry and then, of course, the regular courses along with it. And that's the one that I chose. And I can remember, my mother had a brother and he was very upset that I would choose a school like that, 'cause apparently my grades were good enough I could have gone into the higher. And I had no interest in it at the time, you know, so I thoroughly enjoyed the other type of school. And it was really interesting, the high school. We had granite steps going up from one floor to the next and part of our test would be we had to scrub those steps coming down. And the nuns would go down with a white glove to see if you'd- BEC: Really? ANN: Oh, yes. It was very strict. But we learned. We learned how to clean, and we learned how to do-and in the washing, they would learn us the different things about textiles and so on, you know. It was quite-I wish I could remember it all now, but, (laughs) I enjoyed it. BEC: Now, washing, were you using wringer-washers, or-? ANN: Yes, the washboard. BEC: Oh. So it was all, it was not easy. 5 |
