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I Want to Go to School With Them, Riden, You Don't Speak Japanese

Nicol and her family moved from Rwanda to Japan when their son was five years old. Ryden wanted to go to school with the japanese kids who looked like him, but nicol didn't speak Japanese. Nicol decided to do an interview for a job as a teacher at one of the local schools in Japan. She says she's always been different, something deeper he saw started noticing. "He had this feeling he'd belong better"

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