ROSE:  That I -- yeah, you know, it's a really interesting when you think about way back, I'm talking about when there was no medicine, and compare -- compare it with right now.  You know, they are -- they are -- they are in good care.  I have to say that people all over the villages, they are in good care because when we were kids, we know that babies died only because of diarrhea, you know. 

MARLA:  Yeah. 

ROSE:  And it's so easy to help that little baby, just water, fluids, water, fluids, right along.  And that, nobody knew, you know.  And some easy things that the kids could have received, the baby could have received because we didn't know, you know.

MARLA:  Yeah. 

ROSE:  We thought we were doing the best that we could, and lots of babies passed on.  Lots of kids passed on.
 
So you know, we have to -- in our mind, we've got to think through the Word or through God, and in our mind, we've got to think, well, thank God.  Thank God for that.  That's how much we -- how much is coming to us. 

So we can't kick -- we can't kick the world, we can't kick at White people, why that White man is over here and stuff like that.  We don't need to kick -- kick about stuff.  Yeah.  (Whispers.) 

MARLA:  Okay.  Okay.  So we're back on.
 
ROSE:  Uh-hum. 

MARLA:  I was wondering, what type -- what type of person do you think makes a good health aide?  What qualities in a person's personality make them a good health aide?
 
ROSE:  Well, you know, you got to be both.  First, you know, you've got to be a strong person.  And you've got to be tough, too, you know.  You cannot let stuff hurt your feelings.  Forget it.  If you want to be health aide, forget it, that hurt feelings. 

MARLA:  And what do you mean by "hurt feelings"? 

ROSE:  Well, there are sensitive people that couldn't tolerate no traumas, or any other thing.  So you have to be tougher than that, you know.  You've got to -- if you're working for the public, you've got to learn how to tolerate troubles.  And that's it.  Yeah.  You've just got to stand it. 

Not only people that are -- that are health aide go through tough times and traumas from people and all that.  Anybody, anybody who work for the public go through those kind of troubles.  So you know, you have to -- you've got to be smart.  You've got to be smart girl and -- or smart man or whatever to stand what you got to stand.  And no sense in making it bigger.  Just be -- just be the way you are.  And then I suppose we could be anyway we wish, but you know, we try our best.  That's the way it go.