Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita

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OHI Grace Oshita 5-.30-85 sl:6 have been big problems. LK But they wre pretty lax. GO Tht's right. Andi'm sure the administry also allowed this~ in some way. LK It seems a small enough thing. GO Yes, it's true, becuase like I said, the only furniture we had was what people couldmake fozyou. LK So was your mother gone all day, for instance? G0° She was rightin the block. So some part of the day, shemight have beenin thelittle office~ one side of the .. mess hall. But, most of the time, she was home. She also visted someof thehternees' wives. See how they were coming along. Or -my father would write and ask her to look on certain families. She was among the few Nisei wives of internees. She was bi-lingual. LK What about your grandmother? GO My grandmother was busy. She - she - oh, she always told us, you do what you haveto do and I'll take cared your wash. So she did the whole-the family wash. She was always a hard working woman who helped at the Nisei factory in San Francisco, you know, from early-well, as soon s she sent me off to school! she'd take the street car of cable car and go to work. And then, she would be home byfue time I got home from school. But she - she's always worked. And so ... so she wouldgetup earlyin themorning. This is when nobody's using the wash tubs, she would go out and do the wash - or our wash. I had many friends who worked elsewhere. For instance, my dear friend was a libarrian. So she would see to it that we had thelatest books 00