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Then we were all in the 
student accommodation. We never went out.

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So there was no way we could
come home too late.

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We never caused any trouble,
we never made a mess

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and as a group we were very organized. 
Everyone was in a team

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or in a club or
in an organization.

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So they didn’t have to do a lot
with us Vietnamese students.

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All the students lived there in
student accommodation.

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There were two of us. It had a bunk bed.

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Similar to such accommodation in Ethiopia.

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In 1988 we received news that
were would be getting out own apartment.

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Until then we were in accommodation provided
by the Faculty of Economics.

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It was 16m², there were also many families
with children in small rooms like that.

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Initially we were happy:
an apartment, great!

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But when we saw it,
it was on Storkower Strasse,

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a 1.5 room apartment,
fully furnished.

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We didn’t say no, but
it was not a good or happy thing for us,

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because were couldn’t openly
tell anyone

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that we had an apartment.

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For example, people living in these
small rooms with two children

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in the accommodation, while we
had no children and received an apartment.

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We received an apartment,
each of us a new apartment,

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in Evershagen or Lüten Klein. And that
was also one of those things—

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We sat in our new apartment and
then the doorbell rang.

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It was a married couple, and
they said to us very nicely,

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that it was supposed to be their apartment.

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There was a list, and people had to wait
a really long time.

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That was not right,
we felt...

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We received an apartment and
then work.

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You have to understand that.