Romania Five - Transcription
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Well it's a story which I like to tell people when we came to this country 20 years ago my son was eleven months and uh we came from Europe actually uh from Romania we went to Greece we spent 5 months in Greece and we came to United States so actually we flew to New York and uh my son was eleven months which I told you and uh when we got to New York he was very tired and we had to wait in airport another 5 or 6 hours to get the flight Washington because you know the family was waiting in Washington for us and the child was so tired and was crying and was so upset because I said oh my god what these people around must think of us you know we are just so new to this country and uh you know people we don't want people to think at look at these immigrants they just have such a, a naughty child or who knows anyway so uh I try my best I feed the child he was tired he didn't stop crying so after 5 or 6 month- uh 5 or 6 hours we took the flight to Washington and it's like a two hours flight? three and a half? I don't even know exactly because I never fly from New York to Washington or Washington to New York because always we drive to New York so I don't know really how long takes but probably around two hours and Stephan is his name uh well was crying and crying and crying and was a small plane and we were so upset I was so upset you know I didn't know what to do but people around so nice so good they said don't care don't mind its fine we understand do you need something can we help with something? So I have to tell you in that moment I fell in love with American people. So that was something which only would bring tears in my eyes because you know when somebody so good to your child you'll never forget.
Transcribed by Samara Naeymi, 03.15.05