| Q1. | Hi, George. Can you tell us a little about yourself? |
| A1. | Yeah, Ifm 23, I think 23, yes I amc and Ifm from England. Ifm studying here in Hiroshima for, well itfll be a year by the time I go back to England. My major back home is graphic arts and design. |
| Q2. | Where are you from George? |
| A2. | I am from, well, ahc I am studyingc In Leeds and, itfs a city in the north of England where therefs over 80,000 students apparently, so itfs very lively with night life and the whole student way of living. |
| Q3. | How does the size of the Leeds compared to Hiroshima? |
| A3. | I am not sure. Thatfs one thing, actuallyc being a student in Leads, youfre veryc you just stay in the student area, so you have your own sort of student town where everyone lives. And there is one road, which walks down toc there are two big universities. For this road has both universities on it. So, I havenft got to see much of the rest of the city of Leeds but Ifd imagine they are similar size. But in the city apparently, especially where the students are, it becomes a complete ghost town during the holidays. |
| Q4. | Do you like that part of England? |
| A4. | Yeah, Ifd never been there before because I havenft got any relations in the north of England, orc and I havenft got any friends whofd lived there before. So, itfs all newc new sights and sounds, and itfs actually a gorgeous city because itfsc ahc is very open and very light all the time. And just outside, a matter of 10 minutes away, are all the Yorkshire Moors. So it is gorgeous countryside out there as well. |
| Q5. | Sounds nice. Are there any problems in that part of England? |
| A5. | Problemsc Ifve heard, well, Manchester, which is a fairly famous city, which is on the other side of the Pennines; the mountain range that runs down the middle of England, Ifve heard drug wars between the two cities, where deaths have been involved with it all. But otherwisec but apart from that, I donft know. You get the normalc actually a big thing in England at the moment is fights on a Friday or Saturday night after the bars are cleared out. Andc |
| Q6. | What do they fight about? |
| A6. | They fight about anything. Their intention when they leave for the night is to drink and have a fight at the end of it. And itfll involve bottles and anything thatfs near about. So itfs pretty nasty but luckily as long as you donft want to get involved in the first place, you can usually stay clear of it all. |
| Q7. | Have you ever been in a fight? |
| A7. | I have never actually physically thrown punches, but Ifve been next to people, really, on many occasions. |
| Q8. | Do you know why they were fighting? |
| A8. | Umc because of alcohol, basically. Justc |
| Q9. | They werenft fighting for over girls or anything like that? |
| A9. | They may use those as excuses afterwards but I canft think ofc Well, no actually, once I wasc stood next to a friend and we were actually just talking, and this guy came out from the pub and he was completely slaughtered: hefd been drinking probably all afternoon. And he walked past and we were just laughing about a joke, and then a friend of his came out and said to him gI saw you laughing at my friendh, and in resulted in him head-butting him. |
| Q10. | Really? |
| A10. | And lots of other things. |
| Q11. | Is there a lot of crime? |
| A11. | Yeah, there is a fair amount of clime and a lot of it is just left because it canft be controlled because lots of petty crimes, burglaries, actually thatfs very big in the student areas. A lot of students houses thatc |
| A12. | Burglaries, that meansc |
| A12. | Breaking into a house orc or cars and things. And therefs lots of burglaries in the student areas because they always know that therefs computers or hi-fis around. But, then, I always feel very sorry for the police because they are alwaysc I donft know, theyfre never the right ones. And they do so much work; I particularly admire them at the football grounds because wefre renowned as having a lot of hooligans in England. But they definitely, within England at the moment, you see very little trouble around the grounds. You normallyc you may hear about it two groups of fans in another part of the city. But theyfve definitely sorted the job in the football areasc of the ground. |
| A13. | OK thank you very much George |