CHILDHOOD STORIES

1What is your name when you were born?

My name is Maria B., I was born in 1942.

My life was a nightmare, I was orphaned by parents and grew up in an orphanage in an orphanage until '49 when I went to first class. From there I finished 7 classes, I was

adopted by a family, a family of Perisoru but I was adopted by them to be a slave. I

worked a lot in my childhood. At school they did not give me, I was only 7 classes. Just

they sent me with the cow and the sheep in the field.

2What would you like to do when you were a child?

Student life was the most beautiful. I liked to work.

3Have you had pets in childhood?

Yeah, I had it all. We do not because we had all the money in court, pigs, poultry, turkeys

75.

4What was your childhood idol?

I have not an idol. I really wanted to find my brother that I broke in childhood. When I

was at school I wrote to “Scanteia Pionierului” (magazine for teens from the communist

period) and the ladies therefrom gave me the answer that when I have my house and my

salary to visit all the children that were in the orphanage... It was a year younger than me

as well. When we split, the teachers gave me a doll as big as me and reconciled me.

5What was your childhood dream?

I have not a dream in childhood. I wanted to go to Nicolae Balcescu school but I took

the exam without the classroom... Some rich child took my place .......... And I went

to a school in agronomy and I buried my dreams.

6What would you like to do when you were a child?

I had an unhappy childhood. I worked very hard.

Interview made by Yana Bagdhasaryan , EVS volunteer from Armenia