30 September
Well, the morning started from my going to my first work at the Uzbek parliament - Oliy Majlis, and the work itself is at the TACIS project aimed at deepening democratical reforms in Uzbekistan. They gave me some text to translate and then i left home. Just after i arrived we were en route to Samarkand, a court was awaiting me. My former wife wanted to sue me, and get some of her things plus some of my things back, though she had no right to do so. We arrived at Samarkand at 2400 and went to my aunt Nigora's house, we sat talking and studying the list of the things my former one wanted. Man, you have to take a list at this goddamn long list, which was a real fake, i mean there were some things we ourselves never had and she wanted them back, how come!!! Well, on the next morning on the 1 October we went to my other aunt Jamila's house and then came to my uncle Tolqin's house to count those items on the list. Later this day, we were invited to some party, my other uncle Muqum has just arrived from South Korea and his relatives were making some celebration, there we met lots of our relatives, and i even drank some vodka. Well, it was a pretty nice party, though it was pretty cold outside, after the party we went back to Tolqin's house and sat there watching some old video.
2 October
On this day, we woke up pretty early and visited graves of my grandfather and grandmother who are still so dear to me. After visiting their graves we got on to some minibus and headed to the court of Toyloq district of Samarkand Region. So there we were, waiting for the judge to come, he arrived quite late , but she [my former wife] was nowhere to seen, so we had to send for her, and the funny thing that just after they left for her, she arrived with her sisters. So when my aunt arrived from her futile quest, so we all went to meet the judge and tell him our final decisions. Man, she was so damn stupid, she was blaiming me and my family for everything, but i told her and the judge that i won't leave with her. But she said that she won't let divorce happen, though i already had a stamp on my passport:)))
This very day we went to the Siyob market and bought some grapes and then to the Monarch shop, where i bought some stylish jacket for 110$ and then we had some cool pizza and went to Jamila aunt's house, so there we sat all day. My other aunt Dilorom came this evening with her family and we sat also discussing today's court. This is how we spent this day.
3 October
We woke up at around 900 in the morning and did some of our regular stuff and later my aunt Dilorom arrived and we went with them back to Tashkent, man i never again will go to Tashkent in a packed car, we spent 5 hours and my whole body was aching, but finally we made it to the Tashkent and here was i in my sweet city. We came home on the taxi and then we sat watching some TV, and i logged on the net to see how many new e-mails have i got, then in the evening my sister's husband and his family invited us to their picnic. Well, we had a really nice time together, we talked about everything and Sarvar gave me some advice on how to find a good wife and so on. Then i came home and slept.
4 October
Well i woke up pretty early and then went to my new job, though to be frank i have to admit that i have some nagging bad feeling about this job, i just don't know why, but i don't want to work here, but i need to earn money and working somewhere is better then just sitting at home. The funny thing was that when i arrived there was noone at the pass giving bureau, so i had to wait until the man who gives u the pass has arrived ,so here comes the funny part, konw what i left my passport at home, so i had to catch a taxi and go back to home to pickup the passport. But there was noone at home and noone has left keys for me, so i had to go to my mother's work and then come back with her home to get my passport. And then finally i got back to the work, well the first thing i did, was to prepare Uzbek central press selection list, the good thing was that i asked my former colleagues from the BBC Monitoring to send me some copies of the press reviews they did, so all i had to do was to make a copy of this and pretend that i made some press review. Well, i had to do so, 'cause i had no time to prepare this press review, because i was in Samarkand. The i was asked to do some translation for them and then went back home , pretty tired i 'd say. I called Angela and we spoke for a while and then i went to bed.
5 October
Today, my mother tried to wake me up earlier so that we could jog, but i said that i am tired and so on. My dad drove me to my job and then my new day as a translator has started. Well, i did some oral translation, which was better, much better this time, i felt this myself and then continued my translation. Well, this was my last week, full of mostly sad days, i don't know why i feel this way, but still i want to go back to the BBC, just love this place and this new pkace is kind of different thing for me, new experience, new people and guess what our office has no windows at all, no windows and it feels so bad when there's no windows. But, i still hope that somehow i will come to liking this new job and will get a pay rise!!! |
