Thursday, July 17, 2008

From Rihana to Feker - Dec 2, 2007

> Mitisha, i'll have to wait to reply to your other
> email yet again. Because a new incident has
> happened. Yesterday i had to be separated from
> Genanew. Darling, tamgnalesh, i was doing work in
> the library and i had moved away from my desk for
> what could not have been for more than 10 minutes,
> when i returned someone had stolen genanew and my
> cell phone. There was absolutely nothing that could
> be done. Mitiye, endet tensekseke endaleksku betayi
> atamgnim neber. and surprisingly, after i came to
> Egypt, i've been soo attached to him and he's been
> behaving wonderfully well. and the funny part was
> that i was thinking this only a couple days ago. I
> take him everywhere i go since all the cafe's here
> have internet access. I had put all my Egypt diaries
> in a beautiful order and had been writing a lot. i
> had put all the pictures( thousands of them) from
> Harar, Addis, Egypt. Darling everything… into thin
> air. I couldn't believe such a thing had happened to
> me. and you know i don't get
> attached to anything. but is was not loosing
> something that's material. You know how i never
> really liked him at first right, gen it just had too
> many things in it. this is aside the fact that i
> have five papers to hand in the next ten days and
> i've lost everything. Mitisha nights of research is
> gone. Ahun meseksek yansegnal.
>
> Gen it also made me realize something. Mitisha
> alhamdulilah, allah teru sew adergo fetrognal, i'm
> not kidding mitisha. it's not about being one way or
> another. I realized i had a good heart and i
> realized how thankful I had to be for being blessed
> with it. Mitisha, there was a kid who was sitting
> in front of me, when i was doing work and when i
> realized what happened i started crying and i asked
> if he had seen anyone. He told me no. I was so
> careful not to be rude so i smiled said ok and left.
> Later on was when my friend brought up the idea that
> he might know a lot more than he let out, i never
> for a second suspected him. But that's not what i
> wanted to say. Tenesh keteregagaw bewhala, you know
> what came to mind. i was not angry at the person who
> took it, the first thing was - maybe whoever took it
> was some kid with a lot of problems, maybe he was
> the only one without a laptop among his friends,
> maybe he wanted money for something very important.
> Mitisha andem i never
> thought a negative thing. i was sad that i had lost
> him forever, but i was never angry. when i realized
> this later, betam des yalegn, i was amazed that i
> had actually thought that way. One thing i hate in
> people is when they are constantly suspicious of
> others. endet endemideberegn. when some of the
> American kids ask me to watch their belongings to go
> to the bathroom or something my reaction is always
> like - wiii enezi demo deros sew mamen mech yawkalu,
> or something like, what now you're in a third world
> country you think everyone is a thief... bla bla
> bla, betam yanadegn neber. Now even though i
> definitely realize how right they are to be careful,
> i also fell in love with my self ( surprise suprise!
> ) for still having faith in other people, for having
> the believe that people are inherently good. No
> matter how unrealistic it may seem for some people
> or crazy, it felt good to believe it. I still do,
> even after hours of crying my eyes out, i told
> myself, well get yourself
> together, no time to waste, get started with all
> the papers, which all my professors expect a great
> one. You can always write (the heart still remains)
> and the pictures, oh well, allah didn't give us
> memories for nothing. Lela demo men aderek, when i
> got too tired of feeling sorry for myself, i called
> my friends and got everyone together and partied all
> night long. It definitely worked. I got home around 3
> am. Slept woke up early in the morning revived with
> a much better attitude and i've been in the library
> since. It still gets to me when i think of writing
> the papers again or when the idea crosses my mind
> that i may not be able to hand in things on time, gen
> i'm sticking through it. ALLAH ALE AYDEL DEMO! who
> said life is perfect and dandy all the time. Becha
> lemanegnawem, it also means i might need to try to
> get some money to buy a new one - a beautiful new
> one. Leza mitisha be terf se'atesh look around and
> please let me know an average price to get a tight
> ass laptop eshi.
> Beka ... ahun yaw bezu gize yelegnem bemhal bemhal
> sarf and if i have stuff to say ( which i probably
> will) i'll email you my love.
>
> muaa muaaa

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