(19 Jun 2007) SHOTLIST :
1. Various of Candida Gonzalez teaching in classroom
2. Various of students
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Candida Gonzalez, High school teacher :
"They (the Romanians) are very fast learners. They learn how to speak Spanish very fast. Maybe it is more difficult to them to interact with the rest of the pupils. I often notice that when they're in the playground. But apart from that there are no major problems."
4. Various of classroom
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Candida Gonzalez, High school teacher :
"They tell me how they get used to the food, the way they play new games and the way they have fun. The process of assimilation works out on many different levels."
6. Various of pupils at playground during class break
7. SOUNDBITE: (Romanian) Daniel Ionescu, Romanian student :
"I first learned to speak Spanish at the Red Cross. At the beginning the local schoolmates didn't talk to me much. Sometimes they even insulted me. But things got better afterwards and now everything is great."
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Maria Armengol, Spanish student :
"I think that we should accept them the way they are. We shouldn't treat them differently just because they're foreigners. As fellow schoolmates or even friends we are all equal, I think."
9. Exterior of Romanian Orthodox Church temple
10. Various of priest, Father Luciano Nicolet
13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Father Luciano Nicolet, Romanian Priest
"Our main goal is to preserve our identity, our culture, our religion and our language. That's the main task the Romanian Orthodox Church has here in Spain."
14. Various of Romanian baptism ceremony
15. SOUNDBITE: (Romanian) Ilaila and Dimitri Manescu, Romanian immigrants :
"We are very happy to be able to baptise our daughter here in Spain. We are very much integrated in the local society and the Spanish way of life. But of course is very important for us that our daughter keeps the traditions from the Romanian Orthodox Church."
16. President of AIPE (Association of Immigrants from Eastern Europe) Angela Placsintar at ceremony
17. SOUNDBITE: (Romanian) Angela Placsintar, president of AIPE :
"The saddest part of all is that Romania is losing the most valuable resource every country has and that is the young people. Because most of this children will never return to Romania."
18. Set up of president of local branch of Espana 2000 political party Roberto Blasco
19. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Roberto Blasco, President of Espana 2000 political party :
"We shoudn't have problems with the Romanian immigrants. But that is up to them. They've come here to work so they can eat and survive. But it's them who should adapt, not us because they came to a country with different culture, traditions and language. And they should respect that fact."
20. Various of immigrants dancing traditional dance at Romanian cultural centre
21. SOUNDBITE: (Romanian) Liliana Iotu, Romanian immigrant :
"Our future very much depends on my daughter Bianca because if she decides to settle in Spain and marry a Spaniard then we'll have to stay here because I don't want her to suffer like I do with my seventy-year-old mother being alone back in Romania."
22. Set up of immigrant Bianca Iotu
23. SOUNDBITE: (Romanian) Bianca Iotu, Romanian immigrant :
"I think that is great that my future children will be born Spanish. It's a new and refreshing lifestyle and I like it. But despite that I will always feel Romanian and nothing will change that."
24. Various of people dancing traditional dance at Romanian cultural centre
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