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There was many buildings, homes. Everyone seemed to get along. The weather was very humid. Miles and miles dirt. Had a high population of agriculture.

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The Japanese were only allowed to take what they could carry and everything else that was left behind would be lost in the war or taken in by a friend

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They had girl scouts as well as boy scouts to help provide the most "normal" life

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Construction began on May 1, 1942 over the objection of Native American reservation, it was finally finished in July 20, and closed on September 28, 1945

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Gila River camp was established to keep in Japanese-American's to prevent them from going against the US after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a revenge or terrorist attack. Americans thought this was an effective way to protect everyone

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The food being offered at the camp was mostly vegetables, farmers were encouraged to grow their own food. Beets, carrots and celeray were vegetables that were grown the most. There was a great amount of beets, so the camp did send it to other camps asc well.
There was cows ,hogs and chickens as well but it was difficult to keep them ventilated because of the hot heat. Although there was lots of animals being butchered each week, usually more than vegetables.

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Thankfully there was education K-12. These were being taught by Japanese-Americans who had at least some type of college education and teaching education. There was a block specified for elementary students and another block specified for high school students. High Schools did offer classes such as science, home economics, and vocational studies.
There were quite some shortages for classrooms but students and teachers were able to provide some materials such as chairs being made by the vocational class.

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This camp was one of the most relaxed camps, reason being: it was a camp in where religion was taught. The religion being taught was Christianity and Buddhism. They held groups, meetings, activities.
The camp also offered recreational activities , such as boys scouts, sports , vacant buildings were used for these type of activities,

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The camp was located on the Gila River Indian Reservation 50 miles southeast of phoenix, near a town called "The town of the Rivers."