Difficult partings

A woman reports that she sent her children to Greece, because they felt a great nostalgia.

S.Κ.: Alright, we embark on the train, it took us two days in the train, we came here! My brother came and picked us up from the train! Eh, I stayed with my children for, four months I stayed with my children, but then the children, we wanted Greece, we didn’t want here, we wanted Greece! “I want grandma! I want grandpa!” said Vangelis. Soula so-so. For me to leave and abandon Gregoris here, it wasn’t possible!
Res.: Yes!
S.Κ.: What can we do! Gregoris says “Send the children back and we’re going to go as well afterwards! This can’t be happening, I can’t stand it!” says he.
Res.: Yes!
S.Κ.: “Taste the water, if the water is good” he says “We’re going to stay!” says Gregoris.
Res.: Water?
S.Κ.: Yes!
Res.: Yes?
S.Κ.: He tasted the water!
Res.: The water, alright!
S.Κ.: Eh, alright! Not that good but this! We stayed at a flat up there.
Res.: Along with your brother?
S.Κ: Thanasis! Yeah!
Res.: Yes!
S.Κ.: So, they sent the children along with a friend of my brother, Thanasis. They sent as well, the friends sent her mum to the kid, she also took my two kids.
Res.: And they returned?
S.Κ.: And they returned back!
Res.: Ah, wow!
S.Κ.: They were happy, but I was crying!
Res.: Eh, yes! How was that, that you left them?
S.Κ.: Then to Athens, my dad went and picked them up!
Res.: Yes!
S.Κ.: They were happy, happy! Oh, calls, oh… letters I was writing every day!
Res.: Yes!
S.Κ.: Every day! From a hundred and twenty pounds that I was, I went down to ninety, eighty-nine pounds!