A highly-accomplished young woman working at the Giurgiu County Gendarmerie Inspectorate (IJJ), is standing out among her colleagues through her passion for painting.
"My name is Ramona Elena Ciocoiu, I am 26 years old and I have been working at IJJ Giurgiu for three years. As a child I had an inclination towards this side, to become a gendarme, but my parents didn't see it as a girl's job. At the same time, I liked painting since elementary school, I even wanted to attend the faculty of arts, but it was difficult for me to match those who had specialised high schools, I had no training in the field, just a passion. In my searches I tried to become a teacher and I even attended the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest for two years, but then a competition arose for a position at the IJJ Giurgiu. I prepared a lot, there were seven of us for one position, but I managed to get the job and I joined IJJ Giurgiu, where I deal with marketing and acquisitions. I am very proud that every day I wear the gendarme uniform that I dreamed of all my childhood, it gives me great pleasure to wear the gendarme uniform, it is a great achievement, it was even one of the greatest achievements to enter the Gendarmerie," Ciocoiu told AGERPRES.
She says that this job requires good physical training and gun shooting training. Although in the beginning he did not manage to hit the target, now, through training, she has very good results in the shooting sessions.
"Surprisingly I am also good in this field of training, I really like to shoot a gun, I am also passionate about weapons, I shoot well, sometimes I miss. At first, when I started shooting, I was afraid, I didn't hit the target the first time, but with training, I simply learned (...). I also attended a training course as a gendarme officer and a marketing and procurement course and I work in a field to which I feel I will be dedicated all my life," the young woman added.
In her free time, she focuses on his childhood passion, painting.
"I am also passionate about painting, I discovered the passion in elementary school, but I didn't take it very seriously, because some classmates said that I copy very nicely and my parents didn't really believe me that I made the drawings (...). I don't draw from imagination, but everything I see - landscapes, people - I put on paper immediately. My favourite painter is Vincent Van Gogh. In high school I painted less, because I was preparing for college, but at the age of 20 I started painting again, this time, daylight. Now my parents and friends had seen my talent. I used to draw, start in the morning, follow tutorials and repeat until I formed my hand, I felt the colours, I worked like this from dawn to dusk. I really like oil painting, but also graphics. When I was a child, I, on my own money, bought a small set of pencils, but they were not enough, nor were they so good, and then I saw on the internet a set of oil-based coloured that were very expensive, RON 1,200, and my father, who had now seen how much I like to paint, gave it to me as a gift, it was the most beautiful gift."
Although as a child she wanted to become a painter renown all over the world, now she says that she just wants her work to be appreciated by those around her. She likes to gift her works; she has made paintings for friends, colleagues and even future godparents.
She does not rule out the idea of mounting an exhibition for the gendarmerie.
"All my emotions are in my paintings, I keep all the works, from my first unsuccessful work, as it was, until now. I have several hundred works. I like to make cars and portraits the most, but my favourite is a fantastic landscape, in many colours."
At only 26 years old, she considers herself an accomplished woman, because she loves the job she has chosen equally, and also to paint.
"I love equally being a gendarme and painting, I can't say that one is above the other!", concluded Ramona Elena Ciocoiu.
She is about to get married and says that her future husband, also a gendarme, supports her in everything she does.
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