Manzanar, Calif.

Aug. 28, 1943

Dear Joe,

Gee I bet you are pretty busy doing this and that all the time.

I bet you have been wondering what been keeping me from writing. Well this is my answer. I write all that I can think of and then have it all ready to go in the mail box but then I am too lazy to even go to the mail box at 19-15. But when I get the good mood then the letters are off to you.

I hope that you dont mind when no letters come at times. (But I mind when no letters come because it seems very lonesome.)

Gee I bet this show stuff I always tell you is very boring. Last night I went to see the picture In old Chicago and it was very good. Also there was a good picture comic of superman and when they announced every body started to yell and whistle and through their sweaters in the air. But after seeing so many pictures at a time it really does get very boring and stale.

I was planning to send the clippings of the bob hopes they got me covered today but I dont know how much it will cost but I am really planning to get it up to you. When you do read it and finish it please keep it for me. (just 1 clipping is missing but you wont notice it.

This is how the daily program of the day goes for me.

I get up at 6:30. Ready for breakfast at 7:00. Come back from eating at 7:10. Finish cleaning house at 8;00. Reed the paper till 8;30. loaf around till 9;00; At 9;00 I go help with the mail and come back at ten. After that I dont have any thing particular to do so I answer all of the letters. bey this time its 11;30 and then I have nothing to do again so I get the flower seeds and save them till I need them again. In the rest of the after noon I sleep, type, take a shower, or knit to keep myself busy.

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Here it is saturday and there is no school for the kids to worry about. They will have a 2 weeks vacation and the every body to go back to school. Im i am going to try and get better grades than I did last time and try to study harder then I used to.

Gosh I hope you answer those questions that I asked you in that last letter.

how the epidemic coming along out there? I think that they will manage some how to get the epidemic stopped.

all the time I am all alone because, mama helps make flowers for the funerals and weddings, towru goes to school and never is at home, pop is at the goh and shoji all day.

pretty soon they are going to have hard ball in the camp.

At the colesium they are having the races and they are having a lot of good swimming stars like johnny wisemullar and so on. The meet is free to see and free to enter and is good because they are giving trophies.

Well, So Long.

Just

Masako