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JN: Do you remember when you left Manzanar and moved over to Minidoka? Do you remember that day? Does your family?

TE: I really don't remember. We must have taken the train again. I don't know how we got there really. But I'm sure it must have been a train. I know I, the first, the first dinner we had there I got sick, 'cause I don't know, it was some kind of bad fish or something. I had a tummy ache.

JN: Was it different, the lifestyle in Minidoka versus Manzanar?

TE: It was about the same, I think. Except there were, maybe we were, maybe 'cause we were older that we could roam around a little bit more, but not, still not go too far from, from our block. Our school was, must have been eight blocks or more that we had to walk to school. Then we came home for lunch, back to your own block to have lunch, and then you walked back again.

JN: Was the weather different, do you remember?

TE: It was hot, but it was not... but it was colder, too. I remember they had, some people made getas out of scrap wood that you wore when you went... it was rainy season, then you wore it so you wouldn't get all muddy, your shoe wouldn't get all muddy.

JN: Tell me, did, when did your father rejoin your family? Was it during the camp time or was it afterwards?

TE: It was while we were in Manzanar. But I really don't remember how long he was... while we were there, I mean, that he came back. I just remember that he was there one day.

JN: It was at Manzanar then?

TE: Yeah, it was at Manzanar.

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