During his "extra" year, Tiway Sayion relied on his slight knowledge of Taiwanese and the few Chinese characters that he had gleaned from his Japanese education to get by. Then, after a year spent struggling to understand his teacher's heavily accented Chinese, Tiway Sayion passed the Hualien Normal School's entrance examination and began his studies there.
寄讀期間，李來旺憑著僅知的少許閩南語和日文教育中的漢字底子，努力辨識著由老廟公教授的台灣國語，總算一年後，考上了花蓮師範學校簡易科，成為師範生。