Sunflowers

07.04.2017 Today's drawing of sunflowers is about your grandma's early memory of her immigration. Here's her story: In the beginning when she didn't know any word in Portuguese, she was going through the TV channels, when she stumbled upon a very familiar Italian actress: Sophia Loren. Without understanding one word she was saying, nor the subtitles, grandma watched the movie til the end while sobbing. I learned later that some scenes were shot in Russia and because sunflowers are Russia's national flower, the movie was banned in Korea at that time. Why was this movie so memorable? Was it because the woman who lost her love cried also for the lonely immigrant?O desenho de girassol de hoje é sobre a recordação da vovó em seus primeiros tempos de imigração. Ouçam sua história."Numa noite em que não entendia uma palavra em português, fiquei mudando os canais de tv e acabei encontrando uma atriz italiana bem familiar. Que filme belo e triste. Apesar de não entender nada que diziam e não c