Cleaning lady at our School. By Lucia Vlkova.

16.06.2011
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Do we really know who the woman is who takes care of the cleanliness of our school? I arranged an interview with this nice lady to get to know her better.

Her name is Helena Kozmerová and she was born on March 23th 1951 in Bratislava. She had very nice childhood. She had  very nice attitude to sport, and she played handball and she had a very nice memory from Prague where she was on Spartakiada. The Spartakiada in Czechoslovakia were mass physical exercise events. Spartakiada were arranged by the Communist government and took place at the Strahov Stadium .

Her mother was bookkeeper and her father was a chairman in one old corporation. She has two sisters and very nice family. Their family has 10 members.

From her academic background it is interesting to know that she finished regular high school and she decided not to continue in studies. However, she was actually thinking of working with soldiers at the head office of the airport or working as a nurse. But she chose family rather than career.

She married when she was 19 and she had kids right after .She wanted to be with her kids as often as possible therefore she chose to be a cleaning lady at our school which is really close to her flat. Would anybody guess that this lady works here since 1984? Probably not, but yes.

Everyday she wakes up at 4 to be at 5:30 at school to do her job and after that she is with her grandchildren. She likes her job because it is like sport activity for her which keeps her fit.

I was curious about her relationship to the students, and her attitude to their behaviour is really positive as she knows that growing up is long process that takes a lot of patience.

She could see it on her kids and grandchildren who make her so happy and proud. Her son used to be a representative of handball for Czechoslovakia team but nowadays she enjoys the successes of her grandson who is a really good at water polo.

Her hobbies are bicycling, hiking and her garden. She makes a lot of trips around Bratislava and she prefers wellness weekend too.

I want to thank to Helena Kozmerová for this interview. It is really nice to find out how interesting people are around us.