Aika started at the medical college. She wears a white coat and looks like a doctor who has seen too much. She has stopped wearing black except on Fridays, "for the soul".
I asked if she still listens to tüntolk. She said "all the time. Quieter." That sounded like growing up. I'm not ready.
Today was Old Iradi lit and I think I passed. The question was about the farewell in Akyrky Ashuu. I wrote four pages. At the end I started to cry (on paper, not really). The teacher who read it will think I'm strange.
Don't tell anyone, but this is the first time at university that I forgot I was afraid.
The winter stairwell kitchen turned into a birthday party! Auntie Raisa from floor 3 is 60 and the whole stairwell brought her something: a scarf, pelmeni (of course), a bottle of jam from 2004, and six candles on a cake that ran out of candles.
She said "I'm only celebrating because the building cooked together for six weeks and survived". Cheers to the building!!!
No light, no heat, but our building has GAS so all the neighbours cook together on the stairwell on two plates, it is almost a party. Auntie Raisa from floor 3 makes the best pelmeni. We play cards by candles. I am writing from the university computer centre (the warm one). See you in the light ★
Long time no write, sorry dear readers (all 4 of you). University is hard. Old Iradi literature is SO long. Our teacher reads Akyrky Ashuu to us like it is a thriller and actually... it is good?? Don't tell anyone.
Talgat moved to Almaty to work. The house is quiet. Bars sleeps in his bed.