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DG: Well, one of the questions in the survey asks us to ask you that most people have not become bitter because of the things that happen in the camp even if it was so difficult. Why do you think that people are not bitter, or do you agree? First of all, do you agree with that?

MH: Yes. Some people, yes. Some people, even camp food we had a terrible time for the food, not taste good, but some people real nice and use farmers people.

DG: Right.

MH: See, they are not, they don't have to cook anymore and then they said, "Taste good," they say. Those things I thought were quite a different, but they are enjoying. And they even a small fish they are eating. "I could eat fish." Some of them came from mountain. "Today I eat fish, I'm so glad." So quite a different people.

DG: Uh-huh.

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DG: So you're talking about camp now, and you didn't have a stove before you went to camp so these were the unusual things.

MH: We don't know how to make the stove. Have to ask someone to make, how to make the fire stove and when put the coal in. And then sometime daytime 80, 90 degree and then nighttime 40 degree. And then have to have a coal stove for nighttime, but we don't know what to do so daytime burning. Ninety degree, coal stove burning and we stayed outside. It was funny things.

DG: You also told me about how people had their fur coats in 90 degree.

MH: Yeah. [Laughs]

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