2024-06-30 15:26:17
To Australia – after the conflict
The story of Dr. Cea-Cea Moller’s household is inseparable from the historical past of the post-war nation, because it skilled the identical upheavals that touched many. Her grandparents with their two youngsters, Leokadija and Romualdus, fled the conflict and post-war turmoil to Germany, the place they lived for 5 years. In 1949, the household determined to go to Australia and search for a greater life there.
The household tried to determine themselves in another country, labored lots. The youngsters grew up and went to dwell within the southern Australian port metropolis of Adelaide. Leokadija married native Australian Kristupas Meller. Three daughters had been born, certainly one of whom works as a flight attendant, one other as a bus driver, and Cea-Cea as an stomach surgeon.
Cea-Cea knew that she had Lithuanian roots even in her childhood. When he visited his grandparents within the village, he heard Lithuanian spoken by the grandparents. Additionally they spoke to their granddaughter in Lithuanian. Cea-Cea remembers with a smile “Prepare dinner, cooked porridge/ Kids leaning again”, which grandmother “cooked” along with her finger within the palm of her hand.
Rising up, the lady hardly ever visited her grandparents – solely throughout main holidays: Christmas, Easter, so she is aware of the customs of those holidays, Lithuanian dishes, of which kugelis, beetroot combination and margučiai are probably the most memorable.
within the Lithuanian language
Cea-Cea’s mom, Leokadija, was a traveler who traveled and traveled throughout Australia. Father Kristupas is a instructor, so the household lived in keeping with Australian customs. Lithuanian language courses had been held on Saturdays on the Lithuanian membership, however the blended household was not desirous about preserving Lithuanianness.
After the declaration of independence in Lithuania, Lithuania turned very desirous about Cea-Cea. Moms requested about her, however she remembered little – she was a toddler when her grandparents left Lithuania. Uncle Romualdas may inform extra about his dad and mom’ land – he remembered lots about fishing, picnics in nature, journeys to the forest to select mushrooms and berries.
These recollections had been too little for the lady, she wished to get to know Lithuania higher and determined to go to her family residing on this nation. Cea-Cea additionally acquired a Lithuanian passport and started to actively research the Lithuanian language. First, on-line, and final yr he studied Lithuanian for 4 months at Vilnius College in a bunch of foreigners.
You need to be helpful to Lithuania
The physician who began taking part within the Lithuanian choir “Lituana” working in South Australia is particularly blissful. This gave not solely the chance to sing in Lithuanian, to speak with Lithuanian-speaking Australians, but additionally to come back to Lithuania.
The choir arrives in Vilnius at first of July, the place the members will spend eight days and take part within the track pageant.
After that, he plans to spend one other two weeks in Europe. Cea-Cea determined to come back even earlier and introduce herself to the household of her second cousin Darius and his spouse Roma.
I preferred the physician’s acquaintance with Šiauliai, the chance to take part in St. John’s Day, however I wished to see how my fellow medical doctors work.
Beforehand, she needed to work in hospitals in England, Scotland, and France, so she had the thought to work within the Republic Hospital of Šiauliai, the place the pinnacle of the Surgical procedure Division, Mindaugas Šatkauskas, was blissful to satisfy her.
C. Moller, a physician with a level in surgical procedure, has been working on the largest hospital in Adelaide (Australia) for 3 many years. So he was blissful to share his expertise together with his colleagues in Šiauliai. It’s true that she couldn’t function as a result of she doesn’t have a license, however the volunteer physician assists working surgeons, participates in visits, and takes care of sufferers.
“I would not be capable of keep and work within the hospital due to the language,” says the physician, who loves not solely her work, but additionally the nation of her grandparents, the place she desires to really feel not solely her personal, but additionally wanted.
2024-06-30 15:26:17