Well, we were studying. The punishment was because we had abused our study privileges by doing something other than studies. By using a ball-point and paper. They should have been used for study purposes and we used them for this. And we were deprived of our studies for that.
Rice paper is very thin, yes.
So this project, a collaborative effort, must have been one of the activities that made life meaningful in this incarceration. Well, this was one of many projects. I mean, there were major debates among ourselves. And because our particular group of prisoners, about 20 - 25 of us, were isolated from the rest of the prison community, completely isolated, we had to maintain contact with our people inside the prison and with our people outside. So we had to devise ways and means of doing that.