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« Eva went to school and since she started school she’s been number one. She entered and finished university and still she was the best. And now I feel like crying over this girl. She was SUCH a good teacher. If you go to Korçe and ask people of Eva’s age, everybody in Korçe knows her. Because she was the best teacher in Korçe and she used to go and supervise all the schools in Korçe. And who wouldn’t feel upset to see her here now in this cleaning job? Shouldn’t it be possible for her to find another job? Isn’t it a shame? Isn’t it? But what can you do? Can you do otherwise? »
« And they feel bad about working for people who are beneath them…beneath them in the sense that they haven’t studied, they aren’t educated. Why does one have to put up with all the things those people might say to you? It has cost her a great deal and it still hurts. Because it is one thing to be a teacher and to have a diploma, and another to go out cleaning and go…to do a job that aside from everything else is also tiring. There are some people where she goes to clean and they are also…uneducated and they sometimes behave badly. Of course they don’t say "Look, it’s because you are Albanian: that’s why I am doing this to you," but they do say "Make sure you do this or that" and they behave in a very strange way that my mother doesn’t like because she’s used to people acting differently, behaving in a different way -a better way. »
Losing one’s profession
