The summer job
5 July 2008, 18:20
Zarina and I are selling apricots at the Kyzyl-Adyr bazaar, on the table of her aunt, from seven in the morning. We have a scale and a paper bag and a sign that I painted: "SWEET LIKE GRANDMOTHER'S TEA".
Seven som a kilo. The first day we sold 40 kilos and ate 5 ourselves. Zarina is excellent: she calls out to the people and they come. I count the change because she is bad at it. Together we are a firm.
Our table at the bazaar, Saturday, 6.40 in the morning.