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My father was Lithuanian, my mother was Latvian. We lived in the small Latvian village near the border, where about 30 % inhabitants were Lithuanians. When I was a little girl, I liked to look at my mother’s photos in album and to listen her stories about various events and people. I also liked to listen radio relayings in Lithuanian with my father and so learned this language.I got many new impressions, when we visited his relatives in Lithuania. Later I liked to read books about most important peoples of diferent nationalities. I was glad to take part in census in Latvia in 1979 and 2000. Now my job is like continuation of this. I am inhabitants registrar at Malpils local government.

When I decided to take part in Grundtvig Learning Partnership „Cultural Migration in Autobiography”, I believed that it will be a possibility to get new knowledge and impressions about national character of men and women from other countries. I brought into my mind many stories of various families, many biographies and wrote a story about my good neighbor and enterprising Ukrain man Jaroslav Basarab. He has lived in Latvia since 1969 and speaks Latvian. I think Jaroslav’s love of life and his family brightens his every work.

The meetings in Faenza and Malpils gave many new and great emotions for me. Now I watch Discovery Chanal and TV news with different point of view. The time, when I was reading a book „Under the Toscan sun”, was as a new travelling to Italy and I again felt love of Antonella, who was my „mother” in Faenza. But events in North Africa at 2011 is reason why I thinki about all participants of our meetings time after time. We are so different but also so similar. We want to be happy, healthy and we want to feel love and live in peace.

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