Then we were all in the student accommodation. We never went out.
So there was no way we could come home too late.
We never caused any trouble, we never made a mess
and as a group we were very organized. Everyone was in a team
or in a club or in an organization.
So they didn’t have to do a lot with us Vietnamese students.
All the students lived there in student accommodation.
There were two of us. It had a bunk bed.
Similar to such accommodation in Ethiopia.
In 1988 we received news that were would be getting out own apartment.
Until then we were in accommodation provided by the Faculty of Economics.
It was 16m², there were also many families with children in small rooms like that.
Initially we were happy: an apartment, great!
But when we saw it, it was on Storkower Strasse,
a 1.5 room apartment, fully furnished.
We didn’t say no, but it was not a good or happy thing for us,
because were couldn’t openly tell anyone
that we had an apartment.
For example, people living in these small rooms with two children
in the accommodation, while we had no children and received an apartment.
We received an apartment, each of us a new apartment,
in Evershagen or Lüten Klein. And that was also one of those things—
We sat in our new apartment and then the doorbell rang.
It was a married couple, and they said to us very nicely,
that it was supposed to be their apartment.
There was a list, and people had to wait a really long time.
That was not right, we felt...
We received an apartment and then work.
You have to understand that.