Story
To do this work, I chose my mother because she is a person who emigrated and with a very interesting life. She was born in Nilvange in France, a small town located in the “Gran Est” region, in the northeast of the country, in the department of La Moselle.
It all started with my grandparents in the 60s. They lived in Agrelo, a village near Noia in Galicia and they decided to emigrate to France, to Nilvange, for economic reasons. They chose the northeast of France because there was a lot of work, since it was a very industrial area. My mother was born there. Nilvange is a small city of about 5,000 inhabitants but in the 60s, the population was almost double because at that time there was a lot of work in the iron factories in the area.
In Nilvange, my mother lived 18 years, there she went to the nursery, to the school and at age of 13 she went to study in Thionville, a slightly larger city, located 15km away. Every day she went and returned by bus, to sleep at home. She studied all secondary at the Institute "Lycée Hélène Boucher".
At age of 18 she went to live in Nancy, to study at the university of letters. There she was in a university residence. Some weekends she went to visit her parents.
Nancy is a large city of about 100,000 inhabitants located in the department of the "Meurthe et Moselle", a well-known city because there Platini was born, one of the best football players in France. It has a beautiful old square of the eighteenth century neoclassical style, “La Place Stanislas”.
When she finished her university studies, she decided to study teaching, and that's why she went to Epinal for two years. Epinal is located in another departement, "Les Vosges", on the banks of the Moselle River, originally a fluvial island.
After finishing teaching, her first job was in Sarreguemines, even further east, near the border with Germany. There she spent a year making substitutions in elementary schools. In one of them, It was so close to Germany that the children spoke more German than French. At the end of that course, they gave her a fixed position in another school.
The school was in Luttange, a small village of 700 inhabitants, 30 kilometers from my grandparents' house. It has a very nice castle, which neighbors can use for events or shows. There she was four years.
During her life, my mother spent many of her holidays in Spain, here in Galicia, where she met my father and for this reason she moved to Bertamiráns. She lives with me and with my father in Bertamiráns, she takes care of me and she works in teaching.
Every year we go on vacation to France where she was born, to visit our family and friends.
At present, my grandfather died 10 years ago in Nilvange but my grandmother continues to live her life, a few months in France, near her daughter, my aunt, who is married to my French uncle and the other months, here in Galicia.