- S – Sahomi Tachibana
- SM – Shirley Muramoto
- P – Pauline Fong
- S
- But for me, I didn’t feel that badly because I was doing what I liked, although we didn’t have the freedom to go out and all that but then I was doing something I liked, so it was just, okay, I’m here and I’m doing what I like, so I didn’t think too much about being incarcerated.
I had just come back from Japan, and I hadn’t started anything ‘cause I came back in ’41 in November. And then the following year in ’42, May, we went away so I didn’t have time to start anything.
- SM
- So in a way, you started in camp.
- S
- I started in camp, yes. My mother wanted me to do it, you know, teach, so, she thought I should teach, so I started to teach. That got me going.
- P
- Did you feel that your dance education or career was interrupted because of the years spent in camp? Do you feel that you lost anything because of those years?
- S
- I don’t think so because now when I look back, I did a lot, and enough and more than enough that I thought I would do. So at this point, it’s time for me to really retire. I’m getting tired. But the trouble is that I can’t quit because (they) all still come to me.