Ilona Marjanska is Roma. She arrived in London from Poland ten years ago at the age of six. She is currently studying A-levels in PE, Psychology and Biology and AS level Science. She plays football for Leyton Orient Ladies and Roma United.
It's, it's different than people say it is and think it is, 'cause they… If someone--, I told someone … I told someone that I'm a Roma and they go: 'Oh, do you live in a caravan? Do you do this, do you do that? Do you go out and steal?' And all these things. And I kept saying 'no' and they go 'oh, that's what they heard'.
That's how they see the Romans. I said… I explained it to them that it's not like that. And if they said something then they knew… They looked at me and they took it back 'cause they understood that it's not like that.
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