My first year of junior high I had no pressure from homework, nothing much to worry about, but because of the restrictions of the times (in 1986 Taiwan was still under martial law, so there weren't as many freedoms) and my restrained personality (remember, earlier he said his friend thought him boring, and he always did things by the book, did what he was supposed to), some of the things young people thought were cool, such as drugs, harassing people on scooters (not sure how to best put this, but he's talking about how people would ride their scooters and cut people with knives, swords, etc. as they drove past), and so on, I had no involvement in.