1965. Elderly people from Schela
People generally spend their spare time in their households.
The most common way of spending their time is
in front of TV.
One in three families in Schela village is
connected to the TV cable network.
This local TV cable network retrasmits the main
national TV stations in Romania.
There's no TV network cable in Negrea village.
People out there can only receive
"Romania " TV national station.
The Health Unit in Schela
The Mayoralty occasionally organises shows and cultural
evening parties in the Schela commune Cultural Club.
The Cultural Club has its own group of folklore dances
that is "Florile Lozovei" (the "Flowers of Lozova").
One of the traditional dances in Schela village is "gianparelele",
a dance oddly conserved here which appears to have tartar or turkish roots.
There is a very active association of war veterans in Schela.
They gather and spin memories of their youth.
Inside the Cultural Club there's a library.
Majority of its clients are pupils who prepare themselves for
admission exams in high schools outside the commune.
Schela village posesses a foot-ball pitch and a foot-ball team
which plays for the districtual division.
The Cultural Club in Schela
Most people in Schela are brown-haired and hazel-eyed.
If we take, for example, a class of pupils in the Primary School in Schela,
9 are brown-haired, 7 are dark-haired and 4 are fair-haired.
In the same class, 11 of these kids are hazel-eyed, 6-blue-eyed,
2-dark-eyed and just a green-eyed kid.
Compared to other Romanian communities, inhabitants in Schela are
generally taller and stouter.
Men are over 1,70 meters height and women over 1,60 meters height.
Petrolul Schela football team in 1968
At sledging
Performance in the Cultural Club
The football finalist teams of the School Championship in 2003
Evening party in the Cultural Club