Aidana's exercise book

A strange Sunday

My uncle said the Americans left the base today. He said it very quietly, like it was at a funeral. Mama said: then what? He said: I don't know.

At school nobody knows what to think. There was the dollar and now there will be what? Saltanat eje told us "wait and learn". She also said that this is a lesson in how states change. I wrote it in my exercise book but I did not understand.