The street of my childhood

by Cristina Nuta - I lived on Rose Street until I was eleven, when my father got a better job and we could afford to move to a nicer part of the town. Nevertheless, I still felt attached to my old home until I returned there ten years later, only to be astounded by the way it had changed. Rose Street, as I remembered it, was a warm, neighbourly place. Although some of the ageing blocks of...

Memories of My Childhood

by Herminne Tonita - Dear friend, In your last letter you asked me to tell you a funny story of my childhood. Well, one of the first one that comes into my mind is the story of my first camera. It happened twenty years ago; just when I was ready to go to school I received a present from my grandmother: a camera. Even if my father wasn't too happy about what I had received, I asked mother if...

They are the happiest couple I've ever met

by Cristina Nuta - They are the happiest couple I've ever met. They have been together from their childhood, they have grown one next to the other, they have suffered and they have been happy. But the most important thing that made their love resist all over the years was the trust in one another. Not to forget the communication between them, and the power to pass through the hardest moments...

If you were to describe your own childhood, what would be the main things to emphazise?

by Cristina Nuta - When I start thinking about my childhood, I always get a good mood because all I remember are funny and pleasant moments. I could say that I had a happy childhood, and that I have many beautiful memories from that period. But if I were to describe my childhood, the main things I would emphasize would be the following. First of all, my grandparents played a very important...

Dickens caught and reduced people in the way children see grown-ups

by Herminne Tonita - Dickens caught and reduced people in the way children see grown-ups. As adults, we no longer, or only very rarely, meet people who might have stepped out pf the pages of Dickens, but childhood, when we look back at it, appears to have been full of genuine Dickens figures. The child sees adults through a mind and eye free from associations we bring to the contemplation of...

Do you often read to your children?

by Cristina Nuta - I remember my childhood was a happy one. I used to spend a lot of time with my parents and we were very close one with the other. We enjoyed spending a lot of time in the parks or somewhere outside the house, and it’s a real pleasure for me to take the family album and revive those moments of happiness. One of the things that characterises my childhood is the fact that...