LOVE STORIES

1.In what year did you meet your husband, in what circumstances, and what

was your material status at the moment?

I am 80 years old. When I married my husband I was 20, living in the same city.

Material status can tell you that in those days was a huge gap between rich and

poor. We were workers working in the factory. I was 20 years old and my husband

22, was slightly older. We have five children. All are great now, at their home.

2.Where are your children and how you have influenced their future?

My kids are in town, here in Braila. One of my boys is at monastery, Christianity

and faith are his source of universal values, which he uses in trainings and

workshops in iconography for children. For my kids I have tried to cultivate

morality, cultural spirit. I tried to support the pursuit of knowledge and

understanding of our fellow man, to be patient and to understand their mistakes.

3.You know what are the dreams/ideals of your children? What is success

for you?

Charity, family and contacts

4.What is the book that left an echo in your mind, has a philosophical

content to have had an echo?

The Bible is the foundation of values that built value system of Christianity. It

contains important information about the purpose and meaning of human life,

past, present and the future of man, the beginning and end of the world, an

invisible world that goes beyond the laws natural matter, space and time, and last

but not least information about the Creator of all things visible and invisible.

5. Have you dreamed to have someone else's life?

Have you ever dreamed to be a queen or to live in a family of kings?

I have not had a life of luxury, I was unhappy.

Interview made by Svetlana Georgieva, EVS volunteer from Bulgaria