I don't write here any more, sorry, there is no time with lectures and the computer at my aunt's is always taken by my cousin. I will keep this blog as a souvenir. If you are a girl in 8th class in Kyzyl-Adyr reading this: study, bring two pens, and don't believe the boys about the tulips.
Bye! ♥ Aidana
No light for most of the week. We do the homework by the lamp, Emil and I at one table, grandmother with her beads. Mama cooks on the little stove in the kitchen. The school has the cold lessons from nine to twelve.
My uncle's office had light for two hours today, so I am writing this fast. In the dark you hear everything: the street dogs, the wind, grandmother praying. I read my history in a whisper so as not to wake Emil.
I think this is the winter that I will remember most.
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.Now everything is more expensive. A kilo of sugar was 9 som and is 11. Mama says it is the dollar, which changed on Monday, and the sugar does not know it is a dollar. But the shop does.
I asked my uncle if it will stop. He said: it will stop when it stops. This is how the adults help. Saltanat eje made a lesson of it in the school (she took our class for the economics teacher). She said: remember how this feels, this will be in the history books.
I don't want to write much now. In February a lot of people came to our town from the side of Aulie-Ata, with bags and children. There are three new girls in our class. One of them, Zarina, sits with me. She does not talk yet. I gave her my good pen.
Mama says the important thing is that we are all at home. I agree with mama.
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.
Exams are done for the year. For the summer: 1) help grandmother with the garden, 2) read all the books on the list (I will read three), 3) learn to make boorsok properly, not the wet kind, 4) write more here, 5) something about Daniyar, but I will cross that out.
Our teacher says in the 9th class we start to think who we want to be. I wrote on the paper "judge". Then I crossed out "judge" and wrote "lawyer", because a lawyer can go to more places.
It snowed on Thursday and school was not cancelled. The stove in our classroom smokes, so we sat in coats and Saltanat eje told us about the Kokand khans in her coat too. She said: in the 1850s they also had cold classrooms, be patient. I don't think the Kokand khans had classrooms.
Grandmother made boorsok for the evening. I ate eleven.
Our cat with no name (Mysyk) caught a mouse yesterday and brought it to grandmother on her prayer mat. Grandmother said "Bismillah" and then a word I am not allowed to write. Emil laughed so much he fell off the sofa.
Mysyk sat next to the mouse and looked so proud. Then the mouse woke up and ran into the stove. Nobody has seen it since. Mysyk is still waiting by the stove with the same face.
Hello! This is my exercise book on the Internet. It is called Däpter because it looks like a real exercise book, with the lines and the holes for the rings. My uncle says Attelkom made this design only this month and I am one of the first. I chose the yellow sticker.
Things about me: I have two brothers (big Nurbek, small Emil), a grandmother who lives with us, and a cat with no name. We call it Mysyk which just means cat.
Our street in October. The poplars are already yellow.My name is Aidana, I am 14, I live in Kyzyl-Adyr in the Kara-Buura district. I am in 8 "B" at School No. 1. My uncle has the Internet at… more
Mood: sleepy
Listening to: the radio in the kitchen
Homework: algebra (NOOO)