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Marina’s grandmother

NAME: Marina Costa i Eva Saló

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PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Her name is Enriqueta Marí Masip and she is 73 years old. She was born in 1937 in Lladó, but now she is living in Figueres with her husband, so she isn’t widow.

FAMILY

Enriqueta has got a sister, called Anita. Marina’s grandmother has got four children; tree girls and one boy. They have got more children so now, she has got 6 grandchildren.

SCHOOL

When she was living in Lladó, she went to school. She didn’t like studying because her teacher caned all the students. When she was fourteen, she lift school to go to work, because her family was poor.

CAREEREnriqueta started to work at fourteen. Her first job was as a maid. She cleaned the house and took care the children of other families. She was working in different houses for many years, but she also went to France with her mum to pick grapes.

MEMORIES

When she was younger, she wanted to be hairdresser, but she couldn’t do that because the conditions, and because their life was faster, she said.

Her best memory was when she went on holidays, in Llançà, every summer. And her worst memory was when she was ill for two years.

HISTORY

Life has changed a lot from last century, she said, because before, the conditions were poor; she was always cold and hungry, and to survive she had to work a lot.

HOBBIES

Her hobbies are read a lot, travell around Spain and go out with her friends and family.

In ... 1937

WORLD EVENTS:Italy withdraws from League of Nations. First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru.In Spain there was happen the civil war.

USAAmelia Mary Earhart mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigation flight.U.S. Gun boat Panay sunk by Japanese in Yangtze River.The German airship Hindenburg bursts into flames while attempting to moor at Lakehurst, New Jersey.Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term.Joe Louis nicknamed The Brown Bomber became World Heavyweight Champion and had 25 defenses from 1937 to 1949. He was a world champion for 11 years and 10 months.

A huge dust storm sweeps from Oklahoma westwardIncreases in the number of Infantile Paralysis causes ( Polio ) in Chicago causes cities schools to stay closed.National Basketball League (NBL) was created by three corporations: General Electric, Firestone and Goodyear.The Memorial Day Massacre takes place when Ten union demonstrators are killed when police open fire on union protesters in Chicago.One percent of wages Deductions from US employers and Employees to provide Old Age Insurance Benefits.

UKNeville Chamberlain becomes the British prime minister.King George VI becomes the British Monarch when he is crowned on May 12th at Westminster Abbey.Former King OF England King Edward VIII marries Wallis Warfield Simpson.The Emergency 999 Telephone service is started on June 30th in the UK.

CHINA Japanese forces capture the city

of Nanking in China and massacre of an estimated 200,000.

HONG KONG Typhoon strikes the Island of Hong Kong with devastating results

JAPAN Japan Invades China and seizes Peking, Tietsin, Nanjing, Shanghai and HangchowKiichiro Toyoda founds the Toyota Motor Company in Japan

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