Come dine with Lina -

As a social worker Lina is used to demanding environments, trying to help those in crisis situations, albeit with rewarding outcomes. So she comes home, chops onions, and cooks away the tension with a comforting plate of stew at the end of it.
This film is part of Goodbye Europe
1000 LONDONERS
This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a ten-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.
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1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit www.chocolatefilms.com
TRANSCRIPT
It was quite a busy day at work so I'm like shattered, but not too bad. I will start with onions. I love cooking things where I need to chop something as well because it kind of helps to release stress a bit and everything. Chopping onions can be very relaxing for me anyways. I'm a social worker so in my nature of work, it's very easy to get very stressed out oh my god I'm about to cry because of the onions, sorry. Isn't it like relaxing you're just chop the onions and literally you can feel how stress levels are just going down. We have around 1000 cases, so there is always someone who is in crisis, who needs to move, who needs some support and help and that's why there's always something to do. I mean yeah, I could buy something from takeaway or a shop which is made and I will save time but I just want to stop saving time because you know we try to save time all the time. So yeah, that's why I want to dedicate my time actually to cooking. During winters I think it's a very Lithuanian thing that I just always want stews and something warm. A recipe it's still a fantasy, I mean I just make it up as it goes, I just go to the grocery store and see which veggies look the freshest. It's so funny, like if you want to get this kind of attention just start cutting some chicken or fish or something and he will be right with you. Yes little one, yes, I will give you, yes yes yes. Once we got him from the shelter it just it made home more like home. Love cats, you know they have their own characters. They don't serve you or follow what you want, they do totally what they want, I mean we laugh, he owns us, not we own him. I was a member of a youth organisation when I was younger. And we used to do a lot of summer camps for kids from care homes or like orphanages and everything, and I just found it so fascinating, and then I realised that actually I can earn a living from doing something similar, I'm like okay that's a job I could do for, I don't know, maybe the rest of my life or something. Everyday when you wake up and you know why you're doing that, you feel purpose and meaning in that. Seeing those people happy who I help, it just makes me so happy and it's really nice. Cheers, cheers, cheers! How do you say cheers in Lithuanian? į sveikatą. į sveikatą. į sveikatą.