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Stall 114, row 6, Bazar-i Kalan.
Every day except Monday. Before ten o'clock the apricot sellers have the good light, I have the good tea.

Rules of the road

  1. One bag you can carry yourself.
  2. Boots you can run in.
  3. Never lend your passport. Never.
  4. Bread, a lot.

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Six hundred sets

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.Lorries in the line at Khorgos, 2 a.m. The komuz boy is in the shadow.
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Almaz and the lorry

9 December 2008

The big boxes go by lorry. The driver is Almaz, a Kyrgyz from Tokmok, three years already. He has a Kyrgyz plate and a Kyrgyz stamp, so the lorry crosses where the Talas ones cannot. He takes 80 dollars a ton and one tea. Last Tuesday his lorry waited 19 hours at the Khorgos side and came to Talas with all my boxes and a puppy, I do not know where the puppy came from.

At the Talas North Terminal the ISEZ customs read my invoice, look at me, write a number on the back. The number depends on who is on the shift. Some officers are kind, some are hungry, some are new. I know them by name and what they like (a sack of walnuts at New Year).

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