“Before, there was a large population, there were very beautiful traditions.”

Before, there was a large population, there were very beautiful traditions. On Sundays and Saturdays, there was a dance in the village, mothers would go, children would go to the dance, there was a cafeteria where there is now the shrine, there was a cafeteria, people would go to the cafeteria. For example, since we celebrate Saint Mary in the old style, on September 21, there was a dance and music came, people came from all over, the whole village came out back then.. But now, everyone wants to stay inside, they lock themselves inside the house. There is no place because we don’t have a culture house. We don’t have a a culture house. In Rosetti, there is a a culture house. In Sfiștofca, there are only 5-6 families left and there is a school, there is a a culture house. At our school, the school here is empty and they don’t want to give us a room, let’s do it the way we know how, let’s have one. Look, for example, groups of Ukrainians from Mila, Crișan, Sulina, Tulcea come to us, from Sfântu Gheorghe, almost the whole Delta come to us, we invite them. We have no place. We have the dispensary and that, woe to that dispensary, because there is no one to take care of it. I don’t know. We have nothing, nothing, nothing. Before, there was a culture house, there was a school, but it fell apart. I said at least if they gave us the center, where the cafeteria was, at least we would put people together and build a culture place as it should be, made of OSB, but it would be a place, with benches, that’s where they could go. For the youth, because the youth has no place to go to.