Good afternoon...
Now I look forward to your letters every day
and want to read them as soon as possible.
Because I have no one left after this war in Ukraine
and I am pleased that I met you.
I certainly don't want to think that my parents
are dead or missing. I look at the lists of the dead every day
and until I see their names, I believe that they are alive
and are also looking for me somewhere.
I hope that they were also able to get out and leave Ukraine
and we will be able to meet them someday.
I can only wait and hope for the best.
Today I agreed that in the evenings I would help prepare dinner
and clean the dining room, then they would allow me to use the computer
a little longer so that I could look for my parents
and of course write you my letter.
I haven't told anyone that I'm texting you and while
I probably don't want anyone to know about you,
but I think about you all the time and try to do something useful
all day to help refugees. So time goes faster and
when I'm next to the computer, I feel much better,
I stop thinking about the bad and think only about you.
Let me tell you a little about where I am now.
We flew to the city of Sofia, then we traveled about 2 hours by bus.
If I knew the area, I could describe in more detail.
Here the weather is moderate,
but sometimes it rains and it’s cool in the evenings and you have
to sleep in clothes under a blanket, because nothing is heated.
I hope that this nightmare will end soon and
I will be able to find a job and rent some room for myself or a hostel.
Tell me how are you? How is your day? What are you doing now?
We are not allowed to go far from the camp, and I myself would not go.
I went shopping a little last weekend,
everyone looks at me so strangely, with disgust,
probably because I have old clothes in which I fled from Ukraine,
now I cannot afford to buy something new from clothes. But I'm already used
to it and it's good that at least I have somewhere to wash it.
Now I need to clean up and then we all
together we will watch TV and news about Ukraine.
By the way, I found a flash drive in my old things
and I can send you some of my photos. I will try to write to you tomorrow.
I look forward to your letter, it is so important to me...
Irina