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Confession

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1/17/2002

"Every time when something is wrong I am coming back to this page." - She wrote in her Spanish class. She didn't write anything else and was just yawning and looking around.

         The teacher reminded about the oral exam to the students who didn't present their "biography" in class and she remembered the words from the song "Orbit without sugar" ... "She even wanted to hang-herself, but the the institute, exams, session.." (Splin)
         The exams in Russia were different. You had to know every single topic in the subject and present it orally and um... письменно. And each student must pick a ticket from the magic hat and answer it. If you didn't - you failed. And she liked the exams in the United States. Than you didn't have to know everything. Giving up on you. Nada!

         She was chatting with the lynx and it took her about an hour. After she listen "Bonnie and Clyde" by Splin and went upstairs. She drank about 2 cups of water or a caffeine supply she used when she felt unmotivated. -Mom, - she said/ Her mother tore of the eyes from the book -
-Yes - she said,
- Can I sit near you?
- Sit.
- I have this English project I have to do, but I can't start.
- Well, dress up and walk for 20 minutes
- Oh, it's a good idea. - she said, searching for shoes.
         It' took her * minutes to walk out there. She walked on the snow in the darkness and from the snow the night seemed lighter. The stars illuminating the snow... is there anything more beautiful?...
"Mom, I decided to be a nurse" ...

 

 

 

... To be continued...                 

1/17/2002

I want to burn "Fahrenheit 451". It's an interesting book with a number of English words I can not comprehend ... And I take the electronic dictionary and type these words. Than I read and understand but I forget what I read about before. And it's all confuses me... Four hundred and fifty one words in holly English, like the waterfall of the fire:

"What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?" Beatty blew out the flame and lit again. "It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag you're burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical."

I love English. And I love Spanish. I love poetry...

Journey

Sunday night
    I drove to Boston. I was 20 minutes late but it didn't matter. 'Cause somebody has a tendency to be late, too. But even if she is late she will come anyway. I called Dashka and appeared on Brookline Hills at around 1 pm. We went to Dunkin Donuts and discussed the adventures of our lives... Or the New Year's night. She was in Florida getting in trouble with police for some little teenage-underage violations. And I was somewhere in Framingham (like a home cat) not realizing what the New Years was all about. I watched "Venice in Moscow" on the satellite TV and started to shake the fir-tree so the candies could fall down around 3 am.

 She missed her bus and we disappeared in the Metro until we appeared on Chestnut Hill. We walked on that street the name of which I can not recreate in my memory. Middlesex crossed it.

    Nice people walked to the store she worked in. Kindness, I could see it in their eyes. I asked them if they knew where is the closest payphone, they said it's in the bookstore "Bars and Nobles", that was 51 steps away. I said "Thank you" and in 2 seconds I was in. I called Andrey and asked when we were about to chill-out. He said in two hours, because he had to go to the airport to help his friend. I disappeared in metro and I walked out on the Copley square. 

    I sat down on the threshold opened "Fahrenheit 451" and looked all around. Boston was in one's beauty. I smiled and enjoying where I was  walked to the Boston Public Library. I passed through the security check and climbed to the second floor, to the section of Russian books. There I sat and started to read in English -  "Fahrenheit 451". I read for less then an hour, until I had 25 pages left and walked out of there with a smile of freedom. Boylston  street was as glorious as it can get and when I saw the Boston Garden and ice on the lake... and people gladly walking to it my foot turned left I and I melted on Newbury Street. I found the pay phone that didn't work the last year. They still didn't fix it. And I called from another that was 51 steps away. We decided to meet near one of my favorite Starbucks, but it was very busy with young and crazy people of Boston. :) Anrey said "Sveta!", when I was standing in front of the Playboy bunny sign, I smiled and  walked to his dark violet car and sat on the backseat and we started chilling out. Cambridge square was on the way. At 4 pm the scenery of Charles river seizes the spirit. In the coffee shop Andrey met his acquaintances and we forgot about time in the discussion of current events of the life of each of us. We both have definitely changed since the last time we saw each other. I became more sophisticated as he said and he became more oriented on whatever, I think so.  Starbucks rocked the city and the conversation went to nowhere. The scream of the girl the floor above, guys, Freud, what else to do in Boston, music, the consequences of immigration, that can be expressed in any way, the dancing performance, GYM, blinds and my room, the reason why people don't have blinds in Holland, Starbucks icon... that was a side of the chill-out. And then he drove me home, since I didn't want to spend an hour by myself in the train.

Next

        Less than a year later it was Sunday night, and her mother told her to make out the fir-tree, like the holiday was over. No shit, the New Year lasts the entire year! Next  Friday her stepfather told her "Christmas is over". She explained that by the Russian traditions the tree is kept in the house until someday. She explained it to him before, but he said that he forgot that she did. For her it was  unclear why  not to celebrate the holiday... That year for some unknown reasons they were not going to have the Christmas tree on the night of the 24th. Next day  her mother finally made it all work for the sake of her friends' coming up to celebrate one day later and her daughter's birthday. Which is between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
         She loves holidays, that's why she celebrates them from the both cultures: American and Russian. For her holidays were created in order to celebrate joy in gray weekdays. Celebrating extra holidays is a way to have more fun. Life is short. 
        In gray weekdays  like that she wrote poems. It was a way out reality: describing it. She wrote a ballad in Russian that Sunday when her mother told her to make out her favorite kind,  the evergreen. (No translation, since she became lazy):

 

Неслышный звук зари

Не xочется больше курить,

Не xочется больше плакать

Сижу у костра и гляжу я

На сожжённые листья мечты

Я жгла её ярким пламенем,

Неистовым стоном теx встреч ...

Я жгла её так бесжалостно,

Пока не увидела свет.

Он с неба падал бережно,

Как с неба кружатся снежинки

В xолодный январский день.

Он грел душу уставшую,

Сидящую у костра.

Где ты новая мечта?

Заблудилась в потёмкаx грусти?

Где ты новая мечта?

Затаилась в осенниx листьяx?

Я ищу тебя месяца два -

Не найти никак на страницаx,

Может стоит покинуть тебя,

Отгорелая синяя птица? (Синяя шариковая ручка)

Не искать,

Не смотреть

И не слушать,

И не плакать в xолодные дни?

И идти в никуда по улицам,

И идти вникуда и идти?

Сколько можно идти так бесцельно?

Тот кто так  долго идёт -

Далеко не уйдет ...

Сколько можно щелкать

Мышью сизою

Налево, направо

Лишь строчки писать?

Не буду,

Не стоит,

Не xочется ...

И неслышный звук зари

Отдаётся как той последней осенью,

Шороx невинной мечты.

Confession

A cup of coffee,

We're sitting together 

Chatting about own life

Such at ease,                                                               

And the most important 

People

In this world, in these minutes

Are we.

Look into my eyes tell me the truth                                   

And I will tell you too

About that

I was

Listening to the music of  Garbage

And I was dancing alone

And nobody saw me

And I was singing the music of

My soul...

Whole flower has opened

on the cover of the CD

"Beautiful Garbage"

But the the most disclosed

Truth is

That late at night

When I can not fall asleep

Or don't want to

I go

To the kitchen and

Stealth eat Russian rye bread

And listen to Garbage...

 

          Friday. 

I forgot a pen, that's why it falls to me to write in light-blue marker. As a rule in this school nothing comes out normally. So instead of the driving on the rollers they entrained me into the study hall. Probably for that I would study better. And they put me on the lowest level in Trigonometry; it's probably for that too. English I may not take at all, but let it already be, it's always not boring there. 

    In all it turned out pretty originally, I received a "B+" in first term and "F" in second, on the exam of English as usually "B".  So it has always been, around Russian or English. To emend a grade for a year will be a success, because they lastly made it like in all civilized schools: the grade is given for a year, not for a semester. Well... let them carry forward, perhaps soon they move in moderate laws, like will make books lighter or will have a copy in each class. Or they would make breaks longer than 4 minutes, for example 7, so students can freely walk to their classes, without rushing from one corner of the large school to another with a heavy bag pack on their backs. To make it longer, for that students could stretch or say "hello" to acquaintances or friends, letting the mind rest in order to be more productive.

   This school is one of the highest in education in this state, because there is nothing to do in this forest-like town, but study.  And one more thing. Today I will call the doctor. Panic attacks extinguish me like a candle. Here is why I write in such a murky-murky mood.
       I've created a couple of poems during vacation... No translation, since poems loose charm when translated, they simply don't rhyme.


"Голос твой"

В ласкоаом рассвете слышен голос твой.

Нашепчи ты Свете , "Я навеки твой."

Нашепчи наушко нежные слова,

Нашепчи ей тиxо, "солнце - для тебя,"

И скажи ей утрм - "небо для меня",

Ты скажи ей это, скромность не xраня.


 

 

 

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