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TI: So let's, let's go back to your story. And so you're on the train, eventually you go to Tule Lake, but before Tule Lake --

FS: We went to a place called Marysville, Arboga. Either Arboga or Marysville. That was in the city of Marysville.

TI: This is the, what they call the assembly center?

FS: Yeah, we called it Arboga Assembly Center.

TI: Arboga. And do you recall, what were some of your, your first impressions of the assembly center when you got there?

FS: What?

TI: What do you remember of the assembly, the Marysville assembly center?

FS: I can't remember too much. We were, we didn't know what to do, so we're, we were playing, playing ping pong or something.

TI: Okay, and so you were there for a few months or so.

FS: Yeah, a few months before we were...

TI: And then you were then transferred to --

FS: Straight to Tule Lake.

TI: And what were your first thoughts of Tule Lake, when you compare Marysville to Tule Lake?

FS: Yeah, but see, we didn't, we took the, they put us on the train and I think we, from there to Tule Lake we had to get on the bus, not on the train. It was on the bus. Pretty sure. I think it was, I think it was raining out someplace out that way. I'm not positive about that, but I'm pretty sure the train didn't go that way. I might be mistaken, too.

TI: No, that, that's okay. But so you got up to Tule Lake, though?

FS: Yeah.

TI: And, and what was Tule, how was Tule Lake different than Marysville when you got there? Do you remember?

FS: Big place. That's all I can remember, is a big, big place.

TI: And how about, like, the climate, in terms of the weather? How was that different?

FS: At that time it was, at that time it was hot. When we got there it was hot. But then wintertime we had snow, cold. It was about ten, ten degrees, I think it was ten degrees below zero, and yeah, that was wintertime.

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