Dave Letele
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And like, I'm, and it's not like I,
You know, so Sandringham Intermediate didn't feel too far away because, you know, there weren't that many brown kids.
Actually, bro, I went to school.
In Form 2, I met this guy and his name was Lawrence Schwalger.
And his cousin was Beatrice Falmoina.
And she was, I don't know, I can't remember if she was doing the athletics and stuff then, but I remember meeting her because Lawrence was her cousin.
And so, you know, and so, but there weren't that many brownies.
It was primarily, it was probably 70, 80% white kids.
So it felt like home a little bit.
And then the shock came when we moved to Manurewa.
We moved to Rewa and I went to James Cook High School for like about a month and then my mum got together with another guy and we moved to Mangere and went to Ngata Poi College, 275.