My name is Ana and I´m 16 years old. I´ve interviewed my grandmother whose name is Ana. She is 76 years old. She was
born on the second of June in 1938.
During the post-war period she lived in Roche, a little town of Murcia . She has one brother
and two sisters. Her father was a driver and her mother was a housewife.
She told me that when she was young she used to play games like
hopscotch, skipping the rope or she dressed her dolls. When she left school she
was nine or ten years old. She went to a
school where only girls could go. She only had got a notebook and a book. She has never worked but when she left school
she started to help her mother in the housework.
She can´t remember anything about Spanish Civil War because she was one
year old when the war ended. About the post-war period she can remember that
most people went hungry and they had a card of rationing which controlled the
food they ate or the oil they used in their lamps. She also told me that at
that time there wasn´t too much electricity and
there was almost nothing to eat.
When she was young she used to dream of being a dressmaker and she
expected the future to be better and no one
go hungry .
When she was young she never travelled because she didn´t have the opportunity
to do it and she didn´t have too much money either.
During the interview she told me the story of how she met her husband.
She met him during a party in her town in the 50´s. She was with her friends in
the square of the town and suddenly my grandfather and his friends went to the
place where my grandmother was. When she was
coming back home he approached
and decided to woo her. From that moment they became friends and after
that they got engaged. They were engaged
for six years and then they were married another sixteen years until he
died. He worked as drawer and after that
he worked in a nuclear power station. In her neighbourhood the relationship
with her neighbours was really good because she lived in a small town and everybody
knew each other. Of those days she remembers that most people
were unhappy because of the impacts of the war and the dictatorship. People
didn´t have enough clothes or food to survive.
One of the most beautiful memories she has is when she went to the
countryside to play with her sisters and with the animals they had. She enjoyed
that time a lot. Or when she went with her grandmother to visit her uncle. She
remembers that her grandmother never wanted her to go with her and my grandmother always escaped to join
her.
She thinks that young people at that time, although they didn´t have too much, enjoyed their time
more than us and they didn´t need drugs or this stuff to enjoy. She thinks that
they were more responsible than we are now and they valued more the things they
had.
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