G- Yeah! I would want a big wedding. Like me, I had 250 guests.
Y - Yeah I don't want to get married
L - Errgh I wouldn't mind it, I don’t want to have a marriage, because that's just extra paper work to get a divorce but a wedding, oh yeah!
Y -To have a wedding party, a celebration!
G - Celebrating what? (totally confused)
Y - That we were in a partnership...
L - For life, a commitment for life but without paying the money!
This idea is totally perplexing to her. To Gogo a wedding is in a church, with the bride in white, as it is for many people. But it is completely perplexing me, why would someone who had been treated so badly in her marriage still believe in it?
ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE OLD PEOPLE WHO DOES NOT LIKE TECHNOLOGY?
G - Technology is alright.
L & Y - You've asked us what the internet is before.. That's a big question.
L- It's just like a thing that you use.
Y - You can get internet on your television now
G - Why I ain’t know about that!
WHAT'S THE HARDEST LESSON YOU HAVE HAD TO LEARN?
G - Well Biblically (at school), you had to learn..
L - No, life lessons
G - Oh jesus, oh I had to.. everything, everything... everything. Everything was hard.
Y - Do think it will be easier for us?
G - I don’t know, it depends on the partner you get.
Y - Do you think it only depends on the partner we get?
G - Yeah
(Y & L Raise eyebrows)
Y - Okay that's... interesting.
WOULD YOU WANT US TO BELIEVE IN GOD, IF WE HAD TO?
G - No you don't have to believe in
God, you do anything that pleases you
L - I know, but in an ideal world
G - I believe in god, you don't know your lords prayer?
L - I know but it's not my lord, so thats alright
Y - It's your lord, not ours
DO YOU THINK THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE NOW FROM WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER?
G - (immediately) Yes!
WHY?
G - You can get jobs, you can get rooms, you can get this, you can get that and you have washing machines at your finger tips.
(L & Y laugh)
Y - You love a washing machines don't you?
L - And Asda, you love bargains!
I sometimes wish I could see into Gogo's mind - there a is another world in there, the one she was born into, which is nothing like one we live in now.
Gogo, although she hides it, is really miserable at points and I think I would be too if all the people my age were passing away. Gogo is the eldest of 11 children and she's already lost 3 siblings. I can't even imagine all the things you know to be true about the world to change so drastically in the 83 year Gogo's been alive. Although she runs up the phone bill when she lives with us for half the year, getting phone calls from friends and family, she can be really untrusting of the people and the world around her. This is a trait, I hope I don't develop into my future.
"YOU CAN GET THIS, YOU CAN GET THAT, AND YOU HAVE WASHING MACHINES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS"