DAJMAILLA

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I'm Dajmailla. Dajmailla ++, married ++, maiden name ++. I was born and raised in Eindhoven. I'm 35 years old now, and I'll be 36 in March. I work in healthcare.

These women are true Creole women from Suriname. Very proud, though. My grandmother was a kind of medicine woman. Who worked with many herbs as medicine. And she passed that on. She only had one daughter and a foster son. That foster son still lived in Suriname. He stayed there too. But she came to the Netherlands with her daughter.

And there are already several of her grandchildren. So, among them, my father. One of the oldest children, 10 years old. My grandmother turned 65 here, if I'm not mistaken. I just checked. And she lived on ++ in Woensel West.

And from there, there must have been bus stops near a school, my aunt told me. They walked that way in their clothes, in the fall, it was October, they took the photo there. The photo was at my aunt's, and I said, "I have to have it." So I had a copy made, and it's here. In my corner. They both lived in Eindhoven at the time. In Woensel West.

They actually ended up in Eindhoven from Suriname. And they've actually always stayed. Now there are five generations walking around here after ++, and I'm proud of that. They all left Eindhoven, actually, and we've stuck around. I knew my great-grandmother well.

I don't know how old I was when she died. She was already 80-plus. She was also demented.

And she lived with my grandmother at one point. And my grandmother ended up having 17 grandchildren, if I'm not mistaken. And she actually looked after a lot of us.

So we all actually grew up there in Woensel West. And that was a wonderful time, a wonderful time. And grandma came to live there too.

So we all experienced that too. And it was a very close-knit family. And I have to say, since my grandmother passed away, the family has fallen apart.

And that's a shame. But you see that in many large families. But they meant a lot to me.

A bit of upbringing. They had a parental role for me, the ones who raised me. Made me who I am today.

I miss her, you know, I miss her very much. Both of them. Both of them.

I think with my great-grandmother it is more about the culture. Yes, especially that. Because I was very young when she passed away.

And my grandmother, just everything. Just like that, driving to the supermarket, swing by to have a cup of tea, or just sitting there watching TV together or... Saturdays, we slept there a lot too. We always walked to the Saturday market with our other cousins ​​on Saturday mornings. All of us together.

That was nice.