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[00:00:06] unexpected story of all of us in the LRT
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[00:00:42] In the Lithuanian of the week section, World War II
[00:00:46] drove Antonio Baron's parents to Venezuela, and now
[00:00:50] everything has turned upside down. Antonio himself was forced
[00:00:53] to flee the country. The man, who found peace in Kaunas,
[00:00:56] was convinced it was destined to return. I'm like.
[00:01:00] when I got on the plane in Venezuela, I had
[00:01:03] 1000 dollars left in my account that's all that was left, meaning I was already
[00:01:06] like, I was already going like a plane falling, I say
[00:01:10] that saved me, saved
[00:01:13] us, people say they won't understand what we feel after
[00:01:17] living where there was none, this is very, very
[00:01:20] big,
[00:01:22] thank you, Kornelija, who returned from the United Kingdom,
[00:01:26] settled near her birthplace and became
[00:01:30] the owner of Grūžiai manor in Šiauliai district, now she not only
[00:01:34] lives there with her family, but also organizes pottery workshops,
[00:01:37] somehow I feel good, because
[00:01:40] I have strong support from my mother, strong support
[00:01:44] from my sister, I really do, who helps
[00:01:47] with all questions, because she
[00:01:51] is the chairwoman of the town
[00:01:53] community,
[00:01:56] in Lithuania, Julius tried his hand in the hip-hop scene, worked as a radio
[00:02:00] show host and animator, unexpectedly
[00:02:03] went abroad, climbed the career ladder in the logistics
[00:02:06] sector, until finally became the project manager
[00:02:09] of 300 people, although now he lives in Germany, Julius
[00:02:12] dreams of creating a home in Lithuania. Today, I
[00:02:16] am like an inkwell in fat, living abroad,
[00:02:20] but perhaps I would feel worse in
[00:02:24] Lithuania, not feel very good
[00:02:26] abroad.
[00:02:30] traveled with her sister who raised her, after living in
[00:02:34] the Maldives and Rome, meeting many different people from all
[00:02:38] over the world, she still returned to Switzerland, which had already
[00:02:41] become her second home, during the pandemic. Here she joined a folk dance
[00:02:45] group and fell in love again with her Lithuanian side. I would
[00:02:48] say it's also a good exercise for the language
[00:02:52] and also not to forget the language
[00:02:55] and to share
[00:02:58] hobbies with the same food. or to remember where
[00:03:02] we are from, and in our group there are quite a few from the same
[00:03:05] region, from Samogitia, so we also speak Samogitian,
[00:03:09] so it's also more fun
[00:03:12] and.
[00:03:19] Antonio Baronas, a Venezuelan Lithuanian who has been living in Kaunas for five years,
[00:03:22] is frank. Leaving the country where he was born
[00:03:25] and grew up was not easy for him. The man delayed this decision for a long time.
[00:03:30] He was also worried about his wife, whether she would feel well in a new place,
[00:03:34] but the situation in Venezuela became so critical that now the man
[00:03:37] says, Lithuania is his salvation,
[00:03:41] especially when it started going so badly, then
[00:03:44] the program told me that your document is valid, everything
[00:03:48] is fine, so I really thought,
[00:03:51] I say, I would have liked to live in Europe, but
[00:03:55] I don't know, I didn't think about Lithuania at all.
[00:03:58] But when that program came up,
[00:04:02] that relocation program, I say, it was like I just
[00:04:06] got on the plane in Venezuela, I had
[00:04:09] 100 dollars left in my account, meaning I was already
[00:04:12] like, I was already going like a plane falling, I say it just
[00:04:15] saved me, saved
[00:04:18] us.
[00:04:22] Antonio, together with his wife Maria, moved to
[00:04:25] Lithuania with the help of our country's institutions, since
[00:04:28] 2019. From the country engulfed in economic and humanitarian
[00:04:32] crisis, almost one and a half thousand people of Lithuanian
[00:04:36] origin and their relatives came here. The man
[00:04:39] admits that he hesitated for a long time, after all, in Venezuela
[00:04:42] he had a successful business and a home, but when the world was gripped
[00:04:46] by the Covid pandemic, everything started to collapse. Our
[00:04:50] pension in Venezuela was half or one euro a
[00:04:53] month,
[00:04:55] meaning, imagine what kind of pension I already had, I was already
[00:04:59] receiving a pension from the age of 60, women from 55, we both
[00:05:02] have a pension, but that was not enough to pay for parking
[00:05:06] for a car, so imagine, I say, if, and the job offered me
[00:05:10] a job before I arrived, a week before, I say
[00:05:14] the head of engineering, meaning one company, in engineering, that means for
[00:05:17] electrical engineering a
[00:05:20] salary of 26 dollars a month.
[00:05:22] Throughout
[00:05:25] his life, Antonio, who worked as an electrical engineer, successfully
[00:05:28] applied his knowledge, experience, and skills in Lithuania as well, although
[00:05:32] he arrived here at the age of 64, found
[00:05:35] a job, and later decided to establish his own company. Now
[00:05:39] the man not only expands his international business, but also studies and works.
[00:05:42] He says that his intellectual capabilities prevent him from sitting idly by,
[00:05:46] life itself makes him do it, we already receive a benefit,
[00:05:50] meaning 249€
[00:05:53] a month, which is not enough to practically pay for rent
[00:05:56] here, this is the thing,
[00:06:00] this relocation
[00:06:03] program was very good, it helped everyone, but it forgot
[00:06:06] us, who are old, because
[00:06:09] it didn't think that we would come here, because we won't be able to work
[00:06:13] for 15 years, so when we, when I arrived, I was already 64,
[00:06:16] meaning, for example, I was left,
[00:06:20] I had, when that COVID, I had, I got COVID, and they didn't pay
[00:06:23] me, because I was already past my pension time, meaning, I
[00:06:27] have neither a pension nor the
[00:06:30] right, meaning, to disability either,
[00:06:32] because of that.
[00:06:35] Antonius admits that there are many unexpected coincidences
[00:06:38] in his family's life. The Second World War drove his parents
[00:06:41] to Venezuela, where they met quite
[00:06:44] by chance, now everything has turned upside
[00:06:47] down, Antonius himself was forced to flee this
[00:06:51] country. They lived there, my mother studied there,
[00:06:54] a nurse, she entered a nursing school, and a sister, two sisters
[00:06:58] also, and my father just near
[00:07:02] that place he worked, whatever jobs he did, so he
[00:07:05] went to that city, meaning
[00:07:08] to visit a friend and there is such
[00:07:12] a street and that street ends here, there is a bank, there
[00:07:16] is a river, which I would say is about 500
[00:07:19] meters wide, where there was a hundred thousand
[00:07:23] and millions of years ago, that river was dry, that street continues
[00:07:26] there, meaning, but it ends, and then, and it was dark
[00:07:30] already, my grandparents were there, in front of the house, and
[00:07:33] flowers and they watered, and a man came
[00:07:36] quickly, so he says be careful with the bank, he says
[00:07:40] I already saw it in Lithuanian.
[00:07:43] "He says, how can this be, meaning, so
[00:07:46] I say, I met her, so I let her into the house,
[00:07:50] met my mother and
[00:07:51] got married.
[00:07:54] Antonio remembers Venezuela, which is 14 times larger
[00:07:57] than Lithuania, with love, saying that back then it was a great country
[00:08:01] to live in, rich not only in nature but also
[00:08:04] in various resources. Unfortunately, poor government decisions impoverished
[00:08:07] it so much that over the past decade, a quarter of its population
[00:08:10] left Venezuela. To make gasoline,
[00:08:14] you need 17 ingredients, all ingredients were
[00:08:17] produced in Venezuela, all 100%, but one
[00:08:21] part exploded, meaning one ingredient, so they brought it from Argentina, and another
[00:08:24] part exploded, we came from America, this one exploded, oh, it was brought
[00:08:28] from France, and then there was a moment when practically everything had
[00:08:31] to be imported, prices started to, meaning, there was not even
[00:08:35] money, because when everything exploded, each time less product was produced,
[00:08:39] it decreased, decreased, decreased, and meaning, and meaning.
[00:08:42] The government, not only did it receive money, but it also
[00:08:45] borrowed, so to speak, borrowed too much, too much
[00:08:49] money, so it would have been enough
[00:08:52] for everything, but there wasn't enough money to
[00:08:55] give to everyone, they had their own group, so it
[00:08:58] was.
[00:09:00] Due to poverty and hardship, people in Venezuela resorted
[00:09:04] to various ways to survive, not only scavenging for food from garbage
[00:09:08] containers, but also stealing. The streets became extremely
[00:09:12] dangerous, one had to beware not only of ordinary
[00:09:15] people, but also of officials, we were afraid, meaning
[00:09:18] my daughter here was robbed
[00:09:21] and means all
[00:09:25] evening they drove around, drove around, meaning nothing stopped and I had
[00:09:28] to collect money to pay for
[00:09:32] it and
[00:09:36] it was the police themselves who grabbed her, the police had
[00:09:39] a police car, I had that radio, I talked to that...
[00:09:42] central, oh, we're busy now
[00:09:46] the police stole her, the GDP of Venezuela
[00:09:49] fell by 80%, I say, if it falls by 2-3%, it's already
[00:09:53] a scandal, but here it fell by 80%, so
[00:09:56] imagine, the richest, I
[00:09:59] say, I know, is the richest region
[00:10:03] in all of America, the richest in terms of what
[00:10:06] it has, oil has the largest reserves in the world, gold
[00:10:10] perhaps second, third... gas perhaps third, fourth,
[00:10:14] it has coltan, it has iron, aluminum, it has
[00:10:17] uranium, it has everything,
[00:10:21] it's just that, meaning, not, so to speak, not...
[00:10:25] not interesting it was, it was better
[00:10:27] to sell drugs, it was a better business,
[00:10:30] it seems.
[00:10:33] Antonius says that earlier in this country, one could live
[00:10:36] perfectly well with a salary of 100 dollars a month,
[00:10:40] it was enough for everything, for food, and to pay bills
[00:10:44] and to repair cars, but
[00:10:46] as the situation worsened, prices rose, eventually store
[00:10:50] shelves not only remained empty, but even the last products here
[00:10:53] were unaffordable. Prices were even higher than
[00:10:57] here, because you, meaning, you buy
[00:11:00] the same products from those countries that we know, but, meaning, you already
[00:11:04] have a couple of intermediaries, so everyone wants to earn, so, meaning,
[00:11:08] prices are double, triple what they are in
[00:11:09] Lithuania.
[00:11:13] The man admits that although for a long time he thought he would spend his whole
[00:11:16] life in Venezuela, he never forgot
[00:11:19] Lithuania, and his parents didn't let him, they made sure
[00:11:23] that the children spoke Lithuanian and nurtured ties with their parents'
[00:11:27] homeland, when my mother died in '09, I
[00:11:30] had no one to speak Lithuanian with, sometimes
[00:11:33] I called, half the time she lives here in Lithuania, and, but she
[00:11:36] means sometimes every three months, four months, I worked
[00:11:40] in Venezuela also in the embassy, the Lithuanian embassy for a couple
[00:11:43] of years, so there also the ambassador was strict with speaking,
[00:11:47] saying not like that, he says like this, he corrected me daily, but
[00:11:51] I also thank him, I really now when I came to Lithuania, it was really... it was about
[00:11:55] 10 years that I spoke little Lithuanian, because I had no one
[00:11:58] to speak with.
[00:12:01] Antonius still remembers his first trip to Lithuania,
[00:12:05] which was still occupied by the Soviets, he is happy how the country has changed
[00:12:09] after regaining independence. In fact, he fell in love with Lithuania
[00:12:13] that very first time, when he only managed to fly here by
[00:12:16] chance. So he arrived at the Europort, there were two groups
[00:12:19] of people, from his mother's side and his father's side. His mother's
[00:12:23] side calls me Kęstutis.
[00:12:25] and his father's side calls me Antanėlis, so both
[00:12:29] are waiting, they say that you might come from me, we also say,
[00:12:33] what is Kęstutis Amuntan, oh, but how do you know, how
[00:12:36] interesting, and it was, it was both, both groups
[00:12:40] were waiting for me, I was interested that people are
[00:12:44] not rich, meaning, they didn't have many things, but when I went to each relative,
[00:12:48] the table was full of food, they say that
[00:12:50] it's overflowing, that they say, okay, let's eat, they say, here
[00:12:54] it is, listen, but a full table, they say, eat, eat,
[00:12:58] I say. The Venezuelan Lithuanian
[00:13:02] admits that people here are somewhat quieter and more reserved than
[00:13:06] in South America, but his wife Marija also quickly fell in love
[00:13:09] with Lithuania. The woman is learning Lithuanian and
[00:13:13] calls Kaunas her home. She likes that everything is
[00:13:16] tidy here, meaning, we can, in Venezuela
[00:13:19] you, for example, couldn't even show your phone, meaning, you had to keep your phone in your pocket, even if
[00:13:23] it rings, I don't know if a moto. many motorcycles drive by and those
[00:13:26] are armed, so they see that you have a phone, so they say, give me your phone,
[00:13:30] so you have to give your phone and your wallet and this and give that, and
[00:13:34] if a woman doesn't wear any
[00:13:38] earrings or necklaces or anything because they steal, my wife
[00:13:41] had one ripped out of her ear, they were golden
[00:13:44] earrings, meaning, like an X-ray, you know,
[00:13:48] and golden, or
[00:13:49] she left.
[00:13:52] And Antonio himself says that he immediately got used to being able to go out
[00:13:56] into the street even late at night, now
[00:13:59] he doesn't worry anymore, even if a get-together with friends lasts long and public
[00:14:03] transport no longer runs, the couple safely walks home
[00:14:06] themselves. Antonius admits with tears in his eyes
[00:14:10] that the peace and security here compensate for any
[00:14:12] adaptation challenges. If you say, you want
[00:14:16] to live in a normal country, then this is a normal country, right?
[00:14:20] He says, here, meaning, and she has a store, there are goods, there is a pharmacy,
[00:14:23] there are medicines, meaning. We always have electricity,
[00:14:27] there is always water, in Venezuela there is none of that,
[00:14:31] everything I told you about, it's missing, there was also a shortage of food,
[00:14:34] and and and and there were no medicines, and there
[00:14:38] was no water, and no electricity, no internet, and
[00:14:41] sometimes no gas,
[00:14:44] so, meaning, you came here to live normally, so
[00:14:48] you get used to good things, where you
[00:14:51] like it, meaning, it seems very good to me, it was amazing to me that you...
[00:14:55] you can walk in the alley at two in the morning,
[00:14:59] no one bothers you, no one steals from you, meaning,
[00:15:02] you're not afraid, calmly at first I was afraid of everything, I fought
[00:15:06] my phone when I arrived, but I got used to it, that you can live here calmly
[00:15:09] and in five years I haven't had a single incident that could be
[00:15:13] called some kind of violence or
[00:15:17] absolutely nothing, people say they don't understand what we feel after
[00:15:21] living there, where there was none, this is very, very big.
[00:15:25] He
[00:15:26] thanks
[00:15:30] for preserving the Lithuanian language where there was no one to speak it with
[00:15:33] and for the love of Lithuania, which decades could not erase.
[00:15:37] Here we declare Antonius Baronas the Lithuanian
[00:15:40] of the week.
[00:15:48] The lady of the manor, that's what Kornelija Gečaitė, who returned
[00:15:52] from the United Kingdom, jokingly calls herself now. Three
[00:15:56] years ago, the woman and her family bought the Grūžiai manor,
[00:15:59] founded in the 16th century, which belonged to the Bojorai Zubovai family.
[00:16:03] Here, they not only settled down, but also organized various
[00:16:06] educational activities. "Here it's like a home with
[00:16:09] a business, here we have
[00:16:12] pottery workshops, we have all kinds of
[00:16:16] Christmas and Easter workshops, we
[00:16:19] have had weddings and baptisms, and
[00:16:22] birthdays, here in this hall we celebrate,
[00:16:25] we have
[00:16:27] bachelorette parties, here it's like a family business,
[00:16:31] where people can just
[00:16:34] come
[00:16:36] and work with clay, touch it, it's like meditation, because some children, when
[00:16:40] they come, they just touch that clay, and no matter
[00:16:44] how distracted or how
[00:16:47] naughty, let's say, he is, when he touches the clay, he just
[00:16:51] disappears, absorbs, merges with that clay and he's
[00:16:54] not there, so I would say it's a very
[00:16:57] good meditation not only for children, but also
[00:17:00] for adults.
[00:17:03] Previously, a Lithuanian ceramist Regina Mataitienė, known
[00:17:07] for her black pottery works, was located in this manor.
[00:17:11] The artist, who decided to sell the manor, carefully
[00:17:15] chose a new buyer, wanting him to follow
[00:17:18] in her footsteps. She sold this manor for quite
[00:17:21] a long time, she sold it, but she was very careful whom
[00:17:25] to sell to, because she said, she doesn't want them to make
[00:17:28] a summer house out of that manor, and she didn't want that, because
[00:17:32] her late son, he had so many plans here, he really
[00:17:36] wanted to. 'm
[00:17:40] Before the war, it was a three-part building, but
[00:17:43] it was simply bombed and
[00:17:46] this part remained, and this one is already
[00:17:50] built, this is the second part, let's say, and the third
[00:17:53] part, well, it hasn't even been rebuilt, because it costs a lot
[00:17:57] financially to rebuild, so
[00:18:00] she really wanted, her son really wanted to rebuild everything, so
[00:18:03] she said she wants someone to follow a similar path as her'.
[00:18:07] that she went with her husband and we talked
[00:18:11] and we noticed such, let's say,
[00:18:14] similarities between her and her husband and me and my husband
[00:18:18] and she
[00:18:21] liked us
[00:18:24] and we liked this place and
[00:18:28] that's how we decided to
[00:18:30] buy it.
[00:18:33] Kornelija, who acquired the manor, set up an exhibition
[00:18:37] of the ceramist's works in its premises and continues her previously
[00:18:41] conducted activities here, workshops with clay, educational activities,
[00:18:44] nurtures the manor and has ideas to revive other
[00:18:47] buildings, in the future, maybe we would also
[00:18:50] like to rebuild that third part, but we have this warehouse, you can see
[00:18:54] a little through the window, here
[00:18:57] we plan to make
[00:19:01] a grandiose plan to make a huge
[00:19:04] hall, because this is a 1000 square meter space. So
[00:19:08] there we could really do quite a lot
[00:19:11] of various things for celebrations
[00:19:13] and for some
[00:19:16] gatherings, so we just need, give us a little
[00:19:20] time and we'll
[00:19:21] do it.
[00:19:24] Mostly, but fun jobs in the embrace of nature, mowing the lawn
[00:19:28] around the manor with a small tractor, raking leaves. The women
[00:19:32] laugh that they no longer have to light the furnace, gas heating
[00:19:35] has already been installed in the manor building. Mostly, Kornelija is the only one
[00:19:39] managing here for now, her husband Evaldas still spends
[00:19:43] most of his time working abroad, well, every
[00:19:46] time he comes back, we talk about it being the last time, the last
[00:19:50] time, and so
[00:19:53] it happens every time, but
[00:19:57] let's say, 26 years already
[00:20:00] this is the last, last
[00:20:03] year we will live apart, because he is also tired.
[00:20:07] to live without family and we are tired that we see each other once
[00:20:11] a month, so it is just difficult.
[00:20:13] Rasa
[00:20:16] spent 10 years building her life in the United
[00:20:19] Kingdom, in Peterborough. She came here after graduating
[00:20:22] from mathematics studies in Lithuania. She stayed with her sister, who had already
[00:20:26] lived in the city for several years, and started looking for a job. First,
[00:20:30] she made flower bouquets in a factory, later she got a job
[00:20:33] in a trading company, then she met her future husband
[00:20:36] Evaldas. They had their firstborn Karilė, the woman is happy with
[00:20:40] motherhood and work, if necessary, a nanny
[00:20:44] looked after her daughter. Mainly, the work was in the office, with product orders
[00:20:48] and client
[00:20:50] communication with clients, so it was just
[00:20:54] such a peaceful, warm job, I was
[00:20:58] simply given very good working conditions, I had extremely good
[00:21:02] employers and my schedule
[00:21:05] was flexible, I adjusted, meaning they adjusted to me,
[00:21:09] not me to them, and I could
[00:21:12] combine both motherhood and work together,
[00:21:16] also sometimes my sister
[00:21:20] would help out and take care of her, when she wasn't working on some days,
[00:21:23] but my work was from eight to five.
[00:21:25] After
[00:21:28] her daughter was born, Kornelija increasingly thought about
[00:21:32] returning to Lithuania, she just never planned to leave her homeland
[00:21:35] for good. From my side, there was no thought of staying
[00:21:39] at all, because I already knew when I came to the United
[00:21:42] Kingdom that when I had children, I would definitely return
[00:21:45] to Lithuania, because I don't
[00:21:48] like the education system there. I don't like it, although
[00:21:52] I also attended college there,
[00:21:55] improving my English language skills a,
[00:21:59] I wouldn't say I liked it very much because
[00:22:03] children first go to school from the age of four,
[00:22:06] a, so to me that seems to take
[00:22:09] away childhood from children, well, of course,
[00:22:13] it's impossible otherwise there, because a
[00:22:16] maternity leave lasts nine months in total.
[00:22:20] So if you leave, if you have a difficult pregnancy, you
[00:22:24] go on maternity leave earlier, so that means when the baby is born,
[00:22:28] you have less time to spend with them, so that
[00:22:31] encourages many to return to work earlier and leave their children
[00:22:34] in kindergarten, from as early as, I don't know, from
[00:22:38] seven, let's say, or eight months.
[00:22:39] Kornelija
[00:22:43] wanted her children to study in Lithuania, so
[00:22:46] when she got pregnant with her second daughter,
[00:22:50] she started planning her return home, the woman didn't like the conditions in British
[00:22:53] educational institutions that her older daughter had
[00:22:57] to deal with, we had to go to such a kindergarten,
[00:22:59] where we went, but
[00:23:03] quickly stopped, because simply hysterics
[00:23:06] started, tears started and she was already
[00:23:10] about three years old and she understood what was happening, how everything
[00:23:13] was happening there, because here in Lithuania, those
[00:23:17] who complain that children are unsupervised or something else.
[00:23:20] it seems to them that they should take their children to English
[00:23:23] kindergartens where you sat,
[00:23:27] there you ate and slept, simply
[00:23:30] and the doors were open winter and summer to go
[00:23:34] outside, you sit by the door, the wind blows,
[00:23:37] no big deal, they go out, not dressed,
[00:23:40] outside, come back, everything is fine, simply
[00:23:44] that control, that supervision, I would say, was lacking in my opinion.
[00:23:46] To
[00:23:50] have returned to live in her native Grūžiai, Kornelija is grateful
[00:23:53] to her sister Deimantė, it was she who convinced Kornelija and her family
[00:23:57] to move to the town and showed them the manor
[00:24:00] for sale there. Well, I really didn't want to come back
[00:24:03] here, I didn't want to, it seemed like
[00:24:06] anywhere but Grūžiai, well, I was born and raised here, I thought,
[00:24:10] well, I wouldn't want to live here, and
[00:24:13] we had already looked at several houses and looked around,
[00:24:17] we even wanted to buy, but
[00:24:21] then, well, of course, everything doesn't happen that fast, remotely,
[00:24:25] we had a broker who helped with those issues, and
[00:24:28] we came back when the daughter was
[00:24:31] about one year old, well, and then that's it, my sister
[00:24:35] pushed us here, maybe I just
[00:24:38] didn't appreciate how everything changes, because compared
[00:24:41] to when I lived, when I grew up, studied at school,
[00:24:45] in gymnasium, it was completely, completely different
[00:24:48] and those streets... newer, now a lot
[00:24:52] has been invested in the town, the town is now
[00:24:55] more attractive to both guests and residents, the gymnasium
[00:24:58] has also been renovated, now
[00:25:02] children sit in classes in T-shirts, because it's warm,
[00:25:05] they don't even need to sit with gloves, sometime we used to
[00:25:09] sit even with jackets and gloves, because it was cold, we would stuff windows
[00:25:13] with newspapers, now that is far from being
[00:25:15] and a lot of young people
[00:25:19] return to...
[00:25:23] Having decided to return to her homeland, Kornelija has not regretted
[00:25:26] it for a moment. She is happy with her loved ones
[00:25:30] here and their support, good conditions for her daughters to grow up. I'm
[00:25:34] fine, I'm returning to Lithuania, where I was born and grew up
[00:25:37] and here my mother lives, my sister
[00:25:41] lives with her family. There
[00:25:44] my children only had one cousin, who is currently
[00:25:47] 18 years old, and here there are about the same
[00:25:51] age, they have three cousins and one with whom they are seen quite
[00:25:54] often,
[00:25:57] so you know, living in a family, communicating is really
[00:26:01] fun, not at a distance, I think,
[00:26:04] it's better for them here, here in Lithuania for the children, I feel
[00:26:08] good, because I have strong support from
[00:26:11] my mother, strong support from my sister
[00:26:14] I really have, who helps with all questions, because
[00:26:18] she is the
[00:26:22] chairperson of the town community
[00:26:26] and she goes, climbs the career
[00:26:29] ladder, so many... in the town
[00:26:33] of ideas as well, because she is also an active person,
[00:26:35] she
[00:26:38] knows what people want, she has been involved in such things for
[00:26:41] many years and she really knows which
[00:26:45] direction to go, so it's just very good to have
[00:26:47] her.
[00:26:51] At first, Kornelija and her family thought about living in her husband's hometown
[00:26:54] Kaunas or its surroundings, but after settling
[00:26:58] in Gruzdžiai, she realized that life in a small town
[00:27:01] has even more advantages, you know, everything
[00:27:04] is enough, we have Šiauliai, one of, well, a bigger
[00:27:07] city, so Šiauliai is nearby,
[00:27:11] 20 minutes by car and you can find any shops
[00:27:14] you want, so no, I like
[00:27:17] peace, I, for example, couldn't live in Vilnius,
[00:27:21] too much noise, too many cars, yes, a beautiful city,
[00:27:25] I don't argue, well, but I like
[00:27:27] nature, I like the trees
[00:27:31] around, when we have animals here, who
[00:27:34] come to us every day, every night, badgers,
[00:27:38] fallow deer walk, foxes,
[00:27:41] all kinds of animals I've never seen in my
[00:27:44] life, I can just look out the window and they
[00:27:47] walk around, so I like
[00:27:50] nature,
[00:27:54] the only thing that Kornelija misses from the United
[00:27:57] Kingdom is British culture and the smiles often seen on the
[00:28:00] streets, so it's good. She tries to infect
[00:28:04] those around her with a good mood, people could be
[00:28:07] friendlier, envy less, smile
[00:28:10] more, it would be completely different, because
[00:28:14] you know, after living in England, even for that decade,
[00:28:17] but you understand that it's
[00:28:20] not hard to smile, it's not hard to greet or
[00:28:24] ask, after all, how things are going, and it's very
[00:28:27] pleasant when you go to a shop and are served with a smile and a good
[00:28:30] mood. So next time I even
[00:28:34] thank them for good service, because it's really
[00:28:37] pleasant.
[00:28:40] Kornelija, who cherishes the manor, is convinced that
[00:28:44] the planned plans and dreams will be successfully implemented,
[00:28:47] after all, in her own country and with the support of her loved ones,
[00:28:51] it is much easier to do so.
[00:28:59] Former radio host Julius Pauliukonis, who previously
[00:29:02] tried his hand at the Lithuanian rap scene, now successfully
[00:29:06] manages a team of 300
[00:29:08] people in Germany, but he is increasingly returning to his homeland, building
[00:29:12] a home here and making plans to return for good. The man
[00:29:16] spent eight years abroad, although when he left, he had no
[00:29:20] plans to stay long, just like the first time he went
[00:29:23] to study. I left without even attending my
[00:29:26] graduation, although I was the president of students in the 11th
[00:29:29] and 12th grades, so I had a role in those graduations. But
[00:29:33] while my classmates were dancing at their graduation, I worked my first night
[00:29:36] shift to pay for my studies in England. I went
[00:29:40] to study with the idea that I would only study,
[00:29:43] but it turned out that from the first weeks
[00:29:47] I realized that I would have to work and study
[00:29:49] and
[00:29:51] it was difficult to work at night and go to
[00:29:55] studies during the day, so I couldn't complete this place in those two years,
[00:29:58] but how much experience I gained working as
[00:30:02] an 18-year-old in England,
[00:30:06] I gained no less from studying.
[00:30:09] studijuodamas.
[00:30:12] Julius, who did not complete his business administration studies
[00:30:16] in the United Kingdom, brought a certificate to Lithuania
[00:30:19] certifying that he successfully completed part of his studies.
[00:30:22] The man hoped that this would open doors more easily
[00:30:26] to large business companies where he intended to try to get
[00:30:29] a job, but the reality was somewhat different.
[00:30:33] It turned out that... "I danced with straw Simona in the water park,
[00:30:37] Polynesian dances, and at that time I was doing quite well living,
[00:30:40] I danced for a couple of years, so it was also
[00:30:44] playing with children, not just dancing, I was also a pirate
[00:30:47] there, I could also host a five-year-old princess's birthday
[00:30:51] and a pirate and Spiderman, yes, there I had
[00:30:54] to change three different professions in one day and be
[00:30:57] three different superheroes, but at some point."