28 August 2011
I am too tired to write well so I write numbers.
- Jacket 55 som, trousers 38, shirt 22. A full set 120, with the tie 125. The stalls in front of me wanted 160.
- Sold in 2 weeks: 540 sets, 1,500 shirts.
- Mothers who said "I will come back" and did not: 140.
- Mothers who came back and asked to exchange for a size bigger: 71.
- Hours I slept: I do not know.
Thanks to everyone who bought and everyone who did not. I know your children are growing. So are the prices.
2 August 2011
It is done. 600 sets (jacket and trousers or skirt), 1,800 white shirts (3 each), 400 ties for the little boys. Two lorries, Almaz and his cousin. Almaz called me from the Kazakh side at 10 in the morning: "Kunduz-apa, there are 31 trucks in front of me with uniforms." So I was not the only one with the same idea. Mairam told me: you are not a genius, you are a Talas woman.
31 hours at the border. I went with the lorries this time, in the cab, with the Turkish singer. At night we all got out and a boy from the next lorry played a komuz. Nobody in the line slept, nobody was angry. If you want to see the best of the people go to a border at night.
Lorries in the line at Khorgos, 2 a.m. The komuz boy is in the shadow.