It has been so long... It feels like months... Do not know where to start... Maybe from the last thing: I got my first HC visitors and it was great! Except that I somehow got ill and was in bed for two days. But I am recovering...
And thanks to a friend coming from Turkey I did not get too bored during this period. Because she brought the book I had ordered months ago! The 7th book of Harry Potter! It was hard to leave it when I had to run to the bathroom, or when I could not read because of the pain in my stomach, or when I had to sleep because of my fever but still I managed to finish it in these two days... It was great...
Well, it has been holiday for nearly two months and I spend about a month of this period in Turkey. The first was just after the first year exams- from Russian I got a 4 and from Abkhazian a 5 out of 5- and I went there basically for the wedding of my old friend from the university preparation course, a soul twin. Maybe I already wrote about that... And the second time I went just after 3 weeks for the wedding of my cousin, which was cute, and a circassian family friend's, which I could catch only the last dance to close it up since they were the same day; and the wedding of my Circassian friends from London- which I missed due to a hurt ankle. And, I voted at the national elections in Turkey, for the independent politician- I mean who would support a party if each is worse than the other....
Fortunately, my aunt was there too and it was great to see her sometimes I feel we have so much in common, and she really knows to listen to others- though only if she wants. Well, I should learn a little from her!!!
Before I leave friends came from Turkey. A group of young people, as part of an exchange program, and I had a friend among them. We hanged around with them for some time and I hosted the young girls one night. What a crowded house it has been...
When I arrived there was another group- the Circassian Friendship Club from Turkey. More than a month I did not talk in Abkhazian at all. And I forget it all! In a month! How can this be? Well how did I forget my Adygeyan? Though I hope it will come back when I improve my Abkhazian to a better level, it is gone for now... Russian? It survives somehow, but I did not study at all... I did not do any of my summer homeworks. Well I started but not at a good point to complete them in due time. On the first of September the university opens- and I am a bad student! I should be studying now!!!!
About my house a little, it turned out to be too noisy: with the butka next door that plays music till late night, and cars and trucks going crazily fast all day and night, and drunks singing in the streets till morning... I can not have a rest in this house! I still do not have an oven- can not cook but make tea with a spiral water heater... And it is good to eat fruits and salad and yogurt in summer....The house is not just noisy but it is also getting dirty very easily because of all these cars... I sometimes feel the things I wash up do not smell clean just because I have to hang them on the balcony which looks to the road. I clean, I wash, I wash the dishes-that I do not understand how I make so many dirty things in such a short time; I tidy- I mean one room house is a trouble. You do not have a space to be untidy!!!!
What else about me? I went to a repatriants house the weekend before. It was good talking and good experience and good study. I have to start doing something about my phd... At least to form a proposal...
And my young repatriant friend, Yeliz who have graduated from the Abkhazian Language and Literature Department here, turned out to be a better teacher than my writer friend Hayri since she can concentrate on the thing we do and she forced me to study a little more when I wanted to run away.
And we spend some time talking with another friend Shaika who has a possibility to go to my university this year... Otherwise she will be in Istanbul for her education!
Well, well... A lot has happened and have to choose the things that come to my mind... I made some interviews and wrote some pieces to the Jineps newspaper in Turkey.
I already wrote my article for the ESCAS conference to be held in Ankara next month. We have a panel there... About the Caucasus.... Come along if you will be around. 15th September, afternoon section...
I am working on another for the Abhaz-Adyg institutes' international ethnography conference in October about the Naming traditions among the Adyg-Abhaz diaspora in Turkey.
And we have organized a workshop as the Circassian Academia, our group for so long, that will take at the end of October in Abkhazia!!! Well, i am happy that I suggested it should be here since it will be great experience for all young academicians and a good support for Abkhazia, and I think I love to host people!!!!
By the way another group came from Turkey which is young and dynamic and I have some friends among them but I do not feel like talking in Turkish anymore. So I little avoided them- and I was ill... So maybe I should go and see what they are up to now. Oh and I need to take the books for the library that they brought...
I will try to keep up-to-date as I have been trying for so long....
