amea
EN , GR
Episode 2

The suitcase motif returns. A participant opens her own suitcase containing the personal belongings of three generations of women, her grandmother, her mother, and herself.

F.=Facilitator, P.=Participant

F. 1: What is in your suitcase?

P. 3: My own suitcase has photos, personal items, not of great value but everyday simple items, and it has - [she pauses while showing with her hands that she is very emotional] - I cry very easily so I'm sorry.

F. 1: Go ahead.

P. 3: Well, it also has a diary [her voice is broken with emotion] that writes how they spent their days and what my grandparents' life was like. 

F. 1: Do you want to show us a picture of this suitcase? Which picture would you show me?

P. 3: Of a feast. From a wedding or a christening.

F. 1: Who is getting married here?

P. 3: I think it doesn't matter who is getting married. 

F. 1: And what does this picture look like? The celebration? 

P. 3: Very nice. Nicely set up, nicely dressed.

F. 1: And this ordinary object, what is it? If you want to talk to me about it.

P. 3: Of all of them?

F. 1: Yes, of everything that's in your suitcase.

P. 3:  It also has a hairbrush.

F. 1: A hairbrush?

P. 3: Yes, a hairbrush. 

F. 1: Who was using it?

P. 3: My mom and her mother, my grandmother. 

F. 1: Thank you.