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TI: So you then eat at the mess hall, then you said you would go to school.

RS: Yeah.

TI: So how did school compare to when you were at Gresham, what you would learn?

RS: It's the same thing. All the teachers... that's one thing about the camp was all the teachers had to have master's to teach there.

TI: At Minidoka?

RS: Yeah. We had good teachers.

TI: Now why did you, how did you know that?

RS: Because I had heard that. We had heard that, these teachers, and we had good teachers.

TI: And so did you feel like these teachers were better than what you were getting at Gresham?

RS: To me they were all the same. It's just that because of this, the war thing, I think that's what, one of the requirement, because I think they were paying real good.

TI: And were your teachers Caucasian, or did you have...

RS: Caucasians, all Caucasian.

TI: And was it the type of situation where you had the same teacher all day or did you go to different classes or different courses?

RS: You know, I can't even remember that.

TI: So after school, then what would you do?

RS: Played, do nothing.

TI: And things like lunch, from school, you'd just go to the mess hall and then back to school?

RS: Yeah.

TI: And then dinner, same thing, mess hall?

RS: Because at school you have your lunch at school.

TI: Okay.

RS: But then in the block, like parents and all that, they had the food there at the mess hall. And then my dad got a job driving these convoy trucks, deliver things. And so a lot of times we'd... bunch of us, 'cause we lived way up there in Block 39 where the school was way down near where the officers' buildings and all that.

TI: And so every day you'd have to walk, then, to school?

RS: Oh, yeah. And then so when Dad got a job as a truck driver, so we would hitch a ride on the truck and get to school.

TI: Oh, that was a nice perk then.

RS: Yeah.

TI: [Laughs] So you didn't have to walk all that way.

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