When he first arrived in Canada to go to school, his teacher, after looking over an essay Tong wrote, said, "Every word is English, but I can't understand a thing that you've written."
他確實下過苦功，剛到加拿大念書時，老師看完他寫的作文後說，「每個字都是英文，但完全不懂你在寫什麼！」