Comical Sidenotes

A few comical things…

1)The kittens that we adopted both left for a little while and then one of them came back. The other morning Azamat came to the office with my host mom and was playing with the one who had come back. However, he doesn’t really understand how to play with it or hold it properly so he was carrying it around in the most convenient way for him. Unfortunately for the kitten, the meant being carried around by the neck. The poor kitten looked terrified and was trying to run away as soon as Azamat would put her down. I am now convinced that it is because of Azamat that they ran away in the first place.

2) Since Azamat was holding the kitten by the neck the other day, this morning Atepha tried to teach him how to hold the kitten properly. When that didn’t work she took the cat away, put his arms in the right position and then placed the cat in them. She was then stroking the cat and telling Azamat to be gently with him and be nice. Then, while still saying be nice and gently, she patted Azamat on the head too. To which he responded, “I am not a cat!” and ran away from her!

3) Amena has gotten quite attached to me and sometimes cries when her mom takes her away from me so that I can eat. Its so cute. She makes me feel loved lol :)

4) We have dance parties on a regular basis. This makes the RUF side of me very happy. Amena is just old enough to be able to bob around to the music and try not to fall over when she makes herself dizzy and Azamat is now old enough that his aunt, Nodira, is trying to teach him how to dance like a Tajik man instead of just waving his arms around randomly.

5) Last night (Wed July 21) Nodira and I took Amena and Azamat for a walk since the weather was nice and cool today. We made it up the street to the Ped Institute where we stopped to let Amena run around on the grass and chase a bird and Azamat climb on the fence and ride his little car on the sidewalk. We were about to continue our walk down Rudaki when Nodira and I noticed a brown stain on the back of Azamat’s shorts. We thought he had sat in a mud puddle until he kept pulling on his pants. Nodira went over to check and, yep! Sure enough, Azamat had made a mess in his shorts. We made him sit back down on his little car so that no one would see and quickly made our way home before anyone could say “Aye aye aye!”