Milada Kavičková

"During the time they kept those young bulls there, the manager of that large farm came and told my mother and sister that they had to clean out the barn, which of course was done every year. Mother said, 'We can't do it by ourselves, you have to send someone to take care of the bulls, because we can't do it,' and my sister when she saw all this, she was quite impudent, and she said to him, 'Please, how dare you treat us like this? We are two women, and you know how the bulls are, and you still tell us to do it?’ And he said to her, 'I am the director of the farm and I didn’t have to study for it. And you visit the night school, so you will be expelled.'"

"So I came to the school, the principal wasn't there, there was a teacher’s office, and I said that I don't have a recommendation and that I would really like to go to that school. And so they gave me a paper, they told me to fill it out and go to the school in Bedihošť, which I just finished, and they told me that the principal has to sign it. So I went home and biked to Bedihošť. The janitor told me: 'They all went to a pub'. It was the first of September. So I went to the pub, it was right around the corner, and that guy, Blažek, was sitting there, he was my former class teacher and the current director of the school. He was a heavy smoker and the guys were drinking beer, and so I came to him and asked him, in 1951 we didn't have to call everyone comrade yet, so i was begging him: 'Principal Blažek, please, I would really like to go to that farming school, they gave me this paper for you to sign.' And he said: 'No, I won't sign anything.'"