<Begin Segment 34>

DG: And then tell me about the bus ride.

FN: Well on the bus, bus ride too, in those days of course the people traveling they were crowded, we were crowded. And so my sister and I, we had five kids. And the, the couple of fellows that were there were very, kinda' looking at us and kinda' saying, saying nasty words. And they said, "Oh let the Japs sit on the floor, they don't have to have a seat," or something like that, and things like that. So of course a lot of people said "Oh, don't tolerate." They quieted them down. But that, that left us with a kind of a bad understanding, we were going to face this all the way over again. Over, after we get into Idaho. But fortunately Emmett being that way, we, we had no problems at all. Even schooling or whatever. So...

DG: You said Emmett had a lot of...

FN: They were Nazarene. A lot, a lot of Nazarenes living there. As a matter of the fact the doctor was and the farmer that my husband worked for was Nazarene. So they, they treated us very, very well. We had no bad feeling about them. But my husband had to work hard. He used to get up five o'clock in the morning and go spray the apples and things. So he really worked hard, much harder than he had to, really. But there we didn't stay there too long either.

DG: Okay so now you went to Tule Lake in 1942, probably, in the fall of 1942. And you must have stayed until maybe the next spring or summer when you went to Emmett. And then, and your husband joined you in Emmett, probably.

FN: Well yeah, he, he join, he must have joined us in Emmett. And then we were able to move. As, as I mentioned before, the house that my brother had rented was an older type home. Then, then he found, we found a nicer home that we...

DG: And so how could you pay for all this?

FN: How could we pay for it?

DG: Right.

FN: Well we paid of our own, we had to pay it out of our own what we had.

DG: Right. And did you have mortgage payments and things on your house and things back in Seattle that you had to maintain?

FN: No, no we didn't. No we didn't, we didn't. We didn't worry about our home in Seattle.

DG: Oh, okay.

FN: And then during that time you were wondering about how he got the truck to Emmett. And that, that was one good thing about the whole thing. My sister-in-law was Caucasian so she was able to come back here and pick up the truck so she drove it all the way back to Emmett and, and so. That was our mean, means of transportation. But it was a, it was a, fortunately it was a nice truck. It wasn't one that, you know... [Laughs]

DG: And. So you stayed in Emmett for maybe the rest of that year.

FN: Yeah.

<End Segment 34> - Copyright © 1998 Densho. All Rights Reserved.