Hi, my dear friend xxx! Thank you for your letter.
xxx today was
really a good day, and right now I am sitting, writing this letter and smiling:)
And I hope that right now you are reading my letter, and you are smiling too.
My mood has become better again when I got your letter. I should say
when I am in a good mood my work seems more easy and I'm not so tired.
By the way when I came to work today my mood was not so good because my friend
Maria had fallen ill and now she is in hospital. I asked a doctor and he
answered that my friend will stay in hospital for about one week
because she had problems with appendicitis. It's not a very good case.
I will try to visit her as often as I can. I think that to stay in hospital
alone without any familiar faces is very sad and therefore I will try to
adorn her loneliness by my presence. When people are ill we visit them very
often as we can. I think it helps them recover faster. I think it's a good
support for them. Do you agree with me? Please let me know what you do when
someone of your relatives or friends is ill and stay in hospital. Do you
do the same things? As a matter of fact I have only two real friends -
Amanda and Maria the lady who is in hospital. They are also not
married but have boyfriends. We have been friends for almost 30 years. We went to
the same kindergarten and we lived in neighbor houses a lot of time but now
we live in different districts. But it's not a problem for us and we
can meet each other almost any time. We work together with Amanda.
I remember we liked to go to my grandmother. There are very beautiful places.
The air is very fresh and clean, it is a very silent place and there is
beautiful nature. In summer we visit my grandmother during my vacation or
weekends. We always go to the river to swim. I am a fine
swimmer! And if we swam together with you, you would have a big
problem if you tried to catch me in the water, and in winter we go skiing
and skating. In summer we go to the forest to gather mushrooms and berries. In
Russia it is very popular. Once upon a time we even lost the way and found
road already almost at night. We had to climb a high tree just to look
where to go. We were afraid but now we remember it like a funny case.
Have you ever gone to the forest to pick mushrooms and berries, I wonder?
Of course I dont just have fun in the villige, I always help my
grandmother with her garden. Every year she grows vegetables
- potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, garlic and onions, berries. This is
my mother's mother:) My grandfather took part in the World War Second and
got some wounds there. He took part in the famous battle for Moscow where
the fascists were stopped and couldn't seizure Moscow. He had a lot of awards.
He remained alive till the victory and even reached Berlin, but he died in
1980 because of the old wounds. Our grandmother always gives us all
necessary vegetables and that’s why we do not buy vegetables in the market
at all! Now I visit my grandmother more seldom than when I was a student,
because of my work. But nevertheless I try to do it as friequent as
possible. My soul rests in the village. And I am not sure even what I
like more - a small place near the forest and the river, silence, singing
of birds behind the window or a big city with cinemas, museums, beautiful
houses and shops, with attractions, but with cars' roar and noice of people's
crowd and to add to all these with criminal. Unfortunately criminal rate in
Russia is on a very high level. But I don't want to speak about sad
things. By the way today when I come to Maria we will speak about you.
I have told to my friends that i met you. Yes, my friends know that I
am talking to you, and they start asking a lot of questions!
. But if to take
into account that with one of them I work together in clinic, to avoid
interrogation about my new friend is more and more difficult!
I wanted to ask you what makes you happy xxx? What do you like more,
a big city or a small village? Plaese, write me as you can.
xxx I have to go. But I will wait for your letter and your pics!
I send you my pictures! I hope you'll like them. I hope you can find me in
my pictures. If is not, I will help
And I hope you will write me soon.
And then I will have again a smile on my face.
Your friend Mariya.
P.S. I hope that right now you have a smile on your face .
I want you to smile, smile, smile, smile