https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/Iyık Janyl, under the cathedral · school, queues, recipes, small victories Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2022/08/the-last-feast-from-the-window.html Wed, 24 Aug 2022 22:30:00 +0600Churchhttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2022/08/the-last-feast-from-the-window.html The last Feast from this window. All three rooms at Erkin's are full again, the lane is a river, the bells begin at dawn. I went up at five with Eldiyar and Aruuke. Denha was reading on the steps, and he saw us and did not stop, only nodded. On Friday the truck comes. I will write from Almaty as…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2022/07/boxes.html Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:15:00 +0600Homehttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2022/07/boxes.html The kitchen is in boxes. The kettle is on top of the last one, with the cups inside it, wrapped in Dastan's shirts. Erkin's mother came with a jar of jangak paste and a loaf of bread, and she sat on our empty bench and said, "A person leaves a house but the house does not leave a person." I do not…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2022/03/spring-and-a-decision.html Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:00:00 +0600Homehttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2022/03/spring-and-a-decision.html We decided. After the school year, in August, we go to Almaty. Dastan goes first in June to prepare the flat, then I follow with the children and the sewing machine. Eldiyar says, "Will there be a church?" There is. A Latin one, and a Syro-Iradi chapel at the Iradi association, Denha says. He…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/12/dastan-s-news.html Sun, 19 Dec 2021 20:30:00 +0600Homehttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/12/dastan-s-news.html Dastan's cousin in Almaty found a place for him in a building company, as a boiler engineer, the work he knows, with a flat from the firm. The salary is three times more. We spoke all night. I want to stay and I want to go. The children want to see the big city on the other side. His mother wants…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/11/the-bell.html Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:00:00 +0600Churchhttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/11/the-bell.html Today the great bell tolls for the names of 1937. We stood in the yard in the cold, the whole parish, while the names were read one by one. Aruuke asked, "Are those people sleeping?", and Denha, who was standing with the candle, said yes, and God knows their names even where the earth does not.…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/09/eldiyar-goes-to-the-fourth-class.html Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:40:00 +0600Schoolhttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/09/eldiyar-goes-to-the-fourth-class.html For the first time since 2019 there is a line-up with the whole school in the yard. Masks for the teachers, no masks for the children if they stand apart. Bakytgul Jumabekovna gave out new notebooks and an old speech. The children are taller. Everything is the same, only slightly more serious. The…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/05/the-deacon-s-parish.html Sun, 23 May 2021 21:20:00 +0600Churchhttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/05/the-deacon-s-parish.html Since the spring we go to the early Qurbana at the cathedral and sit in the same place on the left side, by the pillar, where the deacon can see Eldiyar. The deacon's name is Denha, he is very young, from the seminary on the hill, and he reads in a clear voice, not fast. He gave Aruuke a small…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/04/second-easter-at-home.html Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:40:00 +0600Churchhttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/04/second-easter-at-home.html Easter again at home. But this time the church was open for those who wished to stand in the courtyard with masks, and the young deacon read the Gospel on the steps in a voice that could be heard in the lane. I stood at our gate with the children and heard every word. The second year, and we are…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/01/winter-in-the-quarantine.html Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:50:00 +0600Homehttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2021/01/winter-in-the-quarantine.html Fourth month in a row of the coal bill. The price is up by a third compared to the year before. Dastan got an extra shift at the plant, so I see him even less. The children have school on television, the kindergarten is closed again, and I sew in the corner of the room between the washing and the…https://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2020/11/the-speaker-phone.html Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:10:00 +0600Homehttps://blog.attelkom.net/ainura/2020/11/the-speaker-phone.html My mother-in-law lives in the village and does not have the internet, so we call her on the phone twice a week and put the phone on speaker for the children. This week she asked, "Where is the little one?", and I held Salima to the phone and the old woman started to cry and sing a lullaby into the…