memory boxes - italian questionnaire
DESCRIPTION
In the EU Grundtvig project named "Memory Boxes: a garden of Reminiscence" 2012-2014 the Italian delegation presented in Kedainiai the results of the questionnaire we submitted online in FB asking people to answer to 8 simple questions about their childhood and the memories related with it. Questionnaire was presented 2 times in Lithuania and Reggio di Calabria.TRANSCRIPT
MEMORY BOXES
Kedainiai, 9th of January 2013
FIRST RESULTS OF QUESTIONNAIRE PHASE
Made by Prometeo, ITALY
8 questions were sent on FB on 12.12.2012 at 15:15
In this period of December 2012 Prometeo submitted online the questionnaire with the main 8 questions that we decided to ask to people
We sent the questionnaire online via Facebook for 43, and via email to 178 different addresses, total = 221
Some data about WHO Answered
We got 18 answers, 5 males (27,7%) and 12 females (72,2%)
Age range, 25-52
Countries: Albania (1), Bulgaria (1), Germany (3), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (2), Latvia (2), Macedonia-Fyrom (1), Romania (2), Russia (1), Serbia (2)
MAIN QUESTIONS-1
1. When you think about your childhood what images/ scenes come to your mind ?
2. Which kind of object have you ever touched left the strongest feelings in you ? (positive or negative, and why ?)
3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong influence on you (positive or negative) ? Which ones ?
MAIN QUESTIONS-2
4. Are there any tastes that you associate with your childhood or your past ? (e.g. milk-breakfast, chocolade-friends, etc.)
5. Can you think of any smells that you will never forget ? Which one ?
6. Are there any historical events that you remember which had an impact on you ? (e.g. Armstrong on the Moon)
MAIN QUESTIONS-3
7. when you see a landscape / city / school / office / mountain which kind of smell do you remember - in your mind - as first ? (choose and match, e.g. mountain & milk, sea & salt)
8. if you are in the same place, which kind of sound do you associate with them ? (e.g. Alps & sounds of cows)
1. When you think about your childhood what images/scenes
come to your mind ?
Lay in a hill, play football (4), meeting friends (2), first embarassing situation, canoing, lay on the beach, my grandmother’s garden (4), in the nature with animals (2), videogames
1. When you think about your childhood what images/scenes come to your
mind ? The best description is :I was waiting for my father after his work every
afternoon at the end of the street we lived. Then I sat in his lap in the car and I steered the car; We were at a lake in summer holidays and we
lived in tents, no other people around, it wasn't a known place in that time. (We usually went with
3-4 families together.) In the evenings men played card, and my father let me to handle the
coins and in the meantime I learnt to play card. 3 words come in my mind when I remember for
this: calm, carefree, paradise
2. Which kind of object have you ever touched left the strongest feelings in
you ? (positive or negative, and why ?)
The dog because afraid of thunder, paddle, sand (2), salty North sea, a fish, chocolate, snow, hot oven door, little ducks, Christmas tree, pure silk, stones made by polystyrene, soil
2. Which kind of object have you ever touched left the strongest feelings in
you ? The best description is :
The most vivid memories I have of the sense of touch is of a piece of candy dipped in sand
that my neighbour put in my mouth. The sand in my teeth is what I remember feeling. It was a very negative occasion. I had asked
her to share her candy and she said she would: then she told me to open my mouth
and close my eyes. I felt betrayed.
3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong influence on you
(positive or negative) ? Which ones ?
U2, Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, Rod Steward, Sting (Russians), Alphaville (Forever young), Abba, Freddie Mercury, “If you leave me now”, Caffe de Flore, Theodorakis (Romlosyni), Beethoven (für Elise), Reggae, Chirstmas songs, river sound, night forest silence, Tom Jones Delilah
3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong
influence on you ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong
influence on you ?
My parents used to play a lot of classical music. On Sunday mornings when it was time to get up for church, my Dad would turn the music up very
loud, to get us out of bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVW8tgGY_w
4. Are there any tastes that you associate with your childhood or your past ? (e.g.
milk&breakfast, chocolade&friends), etc.)
Sweets fruits & Christmas, E-Germany & Vita-Cola, yogurth taste & big waffles, gele kandles in 3 colors & kakao, chocolate & cheese pancakes, nice candies & pickeld
pumpkins, car away tea & pancakes, bacon & onions, milk & vanilla wafers
4. Are there any tastes that you associate
with your childhood or your past ? The
best
Carrot sauce & lunch in the kindergarten (I didn’t eat this meal, and I don't eat it now
either); cakes & lunch every Saturday in the kindergarten with pink or other colors
creams (I hated these kind of cakes and I hate it now too); cherry & friends (we climbed on
the trees and eat from the tree)
5. Can you think of any smells that
you will never forget ? Which one ?
Jasmine scent, the sea smell, sandalwood, wood around the village, homme perfume,
after shave, lemon cologne, mom’s perfume, smell of bevelled grass, gingerbread, stock of
potatoes, wild violets, seaside air, female perfumes, baked bread
5. Can you think of any smells that you will never forget ? The best
When I was around 8 y.o. I was in a swimming suite. and I was jumping in a kitchen waiting
for the food. My mum was cooking for me any sousage.... I took a fog and wanted to catched it from the boiled water and split all hot water on my belly. So all summer I was lying in a bed
and still remember the smell of my burned skin, awful and painful.
5. Can you think of any smells that you will never forget ? The best
the smell of baked bread out of the oven when one reminds me of my
childhood, of my grandmothers. I close my eyes and inhale that smell of fresh bread.
A meal from egg-plant what my mother cooked for me for my birthday or when I returned from
a school trip, because it was my favourite meal. I still feel its taste and smell.
6. Are there any historical events that you
remember which had an impact on you ? (e.g.
Armstrong on the moon)
Moon landing, childhood deficit times, WWII on my family (2), E-Germany beated W-Germany in soccer on W-Championship (1974), the falling Wall (1989), end of dictatorship in Greece 1973, barricated in Latvia 1991, war in Afghanistan 1991, starving children during Biafra war, Munich 1972, soccer W-champions 1974, Twin Towers 2001
6. Are there any historical events that you remember which had an impact on you ?
(e.g. Armstrong on the moon)
Yes, I remember that I watched on TV landing and was fascinated
by that moment later I was disappointed to find out that it was just the movie, not real.
7. when you see a landscape/ city /school /
office/ mountain which SMELL do you think - in
your mind - as first ? (choose and link, e.g. mountain & milk, sea & salt)
Blooming jasmine & vacations, mountains &eucalypthus, office & paper, school &
cafeteria, city & exhaust, typical smell & Latin Americans, sea & salt, milk & Stanislavskij,
wetlands & rain, G Micael & freedom, office & coffee, sea & fish, landscape & grass, city &
now, school & leather, mountain & parfume 4 men, mountain & pines, landscape & smell of fog, vulcano & sulphur, mountains & flowers
8. if you are in the same places, which SOUND
do you associate with them ? (e.g. Alps - sounds of
cows)
Arab countries-Muezzin+traffic noise, mountain-rushing air (wind) (2), city-pigeons cooing, school-
noise from children, office-printer calibrating, rustle - lake shimmer (e.g. when ice breaks down), sea-seagull, sea-waves (2), sea-wind, landscape-
birds (4), city-cars, school-bells, office-tel rings (2), mount-sound of trees, Italy-honks, Amsterdam-
bicycle bells, Vienna-Chirstmas market