Hall 3
- Daily Life in Camp
"Well, here we are,"
he said at last. "Your room is in the center of the barrack.
The center rooms are for smaller families, the end rooms for couples
and the ones in between are for big families."

"The enormous room
was filled with wooden picnic tables, but with five thousand people
milling about, it was hard to find a vacant table. At last they
found one they could share with an old man and a young family
with two crying babies. when they sat down, however, Yuki no longer
felt like eating."

"Most classes were doubled up
in barracks that were meant to be mess halls, the high school
met in the grandstand by the parimutuel windows, supplies were
short, and Nisei teachers were still being recruited from among
the evacuees. In spite of all that, Yuki was glad to be back in
school, for she was getting bored drifting about aimlessly all
day. She liked her young Nisei teacher and, after a while, got
used to the strangeness of being in a school where all the pupils
were Japanese."
Page Researchers: Patrick and Jetson;
Page Illustrator: Wilson
Related Sites:
- Photographs Page - http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/SJ/Nikkei/PhotographsPage.html
- Camp Harmony Exhibit - http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mudrock/ALLEN/Exhibit/index.html
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