My grandmother by Estefanía Asensio

INTERVIEW

My name is Estefanía and I interviewed my grandmother.

• How old are you? .... Then, when were you born?

I´m 79 years old. I was born in 1935

• Where did you spend your childhood?

In Castilla la Mancha

• How many brothers and sisters have you got?

5 sisters and 3 brothers

• What did your parents do? What was their job?

My dad was a gravedigger and my mum didn´t work

What did you play in that period?

I skipped the rope in the street

• How old were you when you left school?

I didn´t go to school

• How was the school at that time? Did you have books, notebooks, etc.?

I don´t know

• When did you start working? What was your job?

I worked in a shop

• What can you remember about the Spanish civil war?

There was a big crisis and the families didn´t have food or a job

• And about the post-war period?

The crisis finished and people got a job

• What did you dream of at those hard times?

Travel to another country

• What did you expect from the future?

That the future was better

• Did you have the opportunity to travel?

No I didn´t

• When did you meet your husband/wife?

When I went to La Unión

• How long were you engaged?

51 years

• What was your husband/wife´s job?

He worked in the mine

• How was the relationships in the neighbourhood, with your neighbours?

The relationships were very friendly and funny

• What are the best memories of that time? And the worst? Do you remember special moment, good or bad, that you personally lived?

The best memory was when I played  in the streets with my sisters and the worst when we didn´t have money to buy food

• What are the differences between young people then and nowadays?

Young people nowadays don´t work to help his family and they are more selfish