As somebody has said before, pessimism destroys the man; anyway we are optimistic because there is no other way of surviving. We are figuratively or even directly put in a situation-limit through the situation in which we are and I have read somewhere, in some fables, a paraphrase of the Latin expression dum spiro spero as I am afraid as long as I hope, but anyway we remain with optimism and we hope it will be the last to die, much later after us and we are optimistic because we have to do this for the future of our children.
We have our own children, we have the ones who stand behind us now and who are waiting for a future, but their future is our oldness and the future of our country, the liaison with the traditions, customs, with the spiritual values we have inherited from our predecessors. Actually all my life I try to teach children the love for everything that is beautiful, human, eternal.
Many times I have been accused of pro Romanian propaganda. The words Romanian, Latin alphabet here for the local authorities and for many of the inhabitants are scarecrow number one. Now people convinced themselves of some things, they understand that there is no future for their children and practically all the children who graduate the school go to continue their education to Kishinau, or in Romania and they see this is their future and that the things they do with us is a real genocide, it is nothing else but exploitation of man by man, it is a violation of the international right.
Though we are told that we have rights, this is a democratic state, we have three official languages, Russian and Ukrainian are respected whereas this law is categorically disrespected, because even when they make some dispositions for us not to want anything more or to be able to continue further with the solving the problem with the school. The dispositions are read in the Russian language and if we are offenders who have violated the state law then you are the ones who come with dispositions in Russian in a Moldavian school; so you are offenders and we are the ones who obey the dispositions, we obey the regulation; we do everything as you want it to be.
If referring to our situation I can say we are punished for any thought which might seem freer, for any tendency to liberty, we are punished through senseless dispositions, through firing us from our jobs. For instance, in 1999 because we were invited to Kishinau with the children, I am a teacher of music and I practice choral art, and we have been invited with a group of children to take part in Kishinau and after a month I have been called to the principle and accused of betraying the interests of our homeland, and they sustained that I went there to thank that president.
I have told them I didn