First day of 9th class. New subject: law (only one hour a week but still!). Saltanat eje is our class teacher this year. She said the test is in three years and we must start now. Everybody groaned.
She has a blog on Kündölük too, about history. I will not tell her that I have one. (Saltanat eje if you read this: hello, I did my homework.)
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.
Nurbek bought a bicycle from a boy in Aulie-Ata for 600 som, which he saved for a year from helping at the bazaar. It is blue and it has no brakes. "It has legs," he says. He rides it down the street with his feet.
Mama forbids it. Grandmother says in her time they rode donkeys with no brakes either.
The road behind our house, where Nurbek crashed.The boys in our class gave every girl a tulip and a chocolate. Daniyar gave me two tulips but he says it was a mistake. Hmm.
For mama I made a card with a drawing of our house. She put it on the cupboard next to my grandfather's photo. That is the place for the most important things.
Tulips from the bazaar, 30 som each, Nurbek paid.Report cards on Friday. Algebra: 4. Iradi literature: 5. History: 5 (Saltanat eje only gives 5 if you have really read). Physics: 3, and I think the teacher gave it out of kindness. The physics teacher also runs a star club on Thursdays on the school roof, but that is only for the clever ones. It is the stars and the optics. I don't understand light. It just comes.
Mama signed the card and said nothing. Which is worse than anything she could say.
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)