When Josep was young, his family struggled financially and had to live with other families after moving to the village when he was 5 months old. He started working at age 12 and had various jobs like being a baker and slaughtering pigs before opening a shop with his brother. During the civil war from 1936-1939, food was scarce. Josep also completed mandatory military service for 18 months when he was 21, which he said was not too difficult. He married his wife Adelina in 1960 and they had two children together.

1. When they were young
Roger Farrés 4rt C
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2. • Josep called Pepet for his friends was born in
1930 in Santa Pau (Olot) but when he was 5
months his family moved here.
• When he has just moved here they had not
anywhere to live and they had to live in Fages
de Climent’s house. He gave house to them
because Josep’s mother worked like servant in
his house and his father worked like farmer.

3. Things he like
• For this reason he says that he had not any
favorite food when he was young, because they
had not money and with the war all worsened.
He also says that when he was a kid he lived the
civil war and they couldn’t play because, then
when he was 12 years old he started to work.
About the music the musicians that he liked were
Louis Amstrong and Frank Sinatra and their
favorites songs were “what a wonderful world”
and “Copacabana”. About the fashion he says
that he has never worried for it.

4. The war
• When civil war began he was only 6 years but
they lived very hard times, they had not
enough money to buy food and they had to
eat only bread.

5. Studies and jobs
• He didn’t like school and says that in those days
he only do the essential things at school. How we
have said before he started to work at the age of
12 helping his father on the fields but his true
first job was like baker and then he worked killing
pigs at slaughter and finally he founded a shop
with his brother. He say that he has fulfilled his
dream, because he says that when he was young
and poor his dream was to have proprieties and
an own business.

6. Military service
• When he was 21 years old he began his
obligatory military service for 18 months in
Lleida but he says that wasn’t difficult times
because there, they gave food to him and he
wasn’t just a simply military, on the contrary
he was the general’s assistant and the most of
time he only helps the general’s wife to go to
the city.

7. Experiences
• He explains that when he was young and lived in Fages
de Climent’s house and he couldn’t disturb him and
one day, when Fages de Climent was met, he disturbed
him and Fages de Climent kicked him down the stairs.
• Another happy experience that he explains was when
he had his first motorbike and he says that he was all
day carrying his girlfriend.
• He hasn’t traveled a lot but when he was young he was
been in France once.
• The invention that have impressed most him is the
computer because he says that he has never thought in
an invention that could do so much things.

8. Personal life
• He had three or four girlfriends before met his
actual wife, Adelina, that met in the dancing
festivals of the village and then they married
with 30 years in 1960. Whit her, he had two
sons, Daniel and Pilar. About the religion he
was very religious before for the family and
the war but he says that now he doesn’t
believe in God.

9. CONCLUSIONS