Did you ever win anything?
Well, yes, I did. I came in first in this little competition in the local newspaper, and it was this competition where you had to, um, finish the sentence 'School is...'
Right.
And design a poster and because I was quite a good student at the time, I said 'School is the key to a new and better world.'
So how old were you then?
It was ten years ago, and I was eleven.
Oh, right. So what did you win then?
I won a 20-dollar gift certificate to Hathaway House Bookshop, and I spent the whole summer there because twenty dollars were quite a lot then. I still have the books that I bought there.