... in Peloponnisos, which is located in the southern part of the Greek mainland. The village is called Levidi. I interviewed my grandparents and they told me that the reason why they left the village was because they wanted a better life for their children. They left in the year 1972 by airplane when my father was fifteen years old. I also interviewed my father and he told me that he was very excited to change environments. In Chicago, he went to a public school and also had to work. It was a "hard life" he says but he worked hard and did the best he could. As I observed my surroundings Last summer in Levidi all I could see were older women and men sitting at cafeterias in the square and children playing in the parks located by the village's main church. It was the seventeenth of August, 2001.The ...

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