Friday! TGTF! During lunch time I walked near office and made this photo:
Do you know that the flowers of this plant, rich in chemicals, can be converted by steam into anti-allergenic compounds? This is millefolium or milfoil. I like the smell of this grass. It resembles me many pleasant events, such as sleeping in hot summer day on the top of the Tip-Tyav in shadow place with breath full of this “anti-allergic compounds”.
On way back home, in the afternoon, I made two stops near Lulu harbors, big one:
And not so big:
As usuaaly, the story is continued, Missilemen 7.
“Who’ve been to Japanese car exhibition in Sokolniky Park?” – I asked.
Silence in reply. Nobody from our team was there. But Gena Schekov lured away us, Kuzya and me, to this place during our stop in Moscow on the way back. The beginning of seventies was in addition to all the time of Détente. Yes, we had Razryadka much earlier than Perestroika, but it was not so popular. Now nobody remember Détente. Just there was some thaw in relations between two Great Powers: more exchanges in art and science areas, more different exhibitions, more trips and informal meetings, internships and so on. In those years I understood that English is not simply foreign language, but the means of communication for mankind in our planet. And Gena was studying Japan in that time. This was the real reason, not cars, of his desire to visit Sokolniky. He would like to speak in Japanese with real Japans.
“Gena Schekov practiced there his Japanse” – continued I.
“Successfully?” – heard I in reply.
“You would have to see the face of that Japanese girl, whom he addressed. First she frozen, then her narrow long eyes became transforming into round ones, then she opened her mouth, and, keeping broken through laugh, breathed out in pure Russian: “Are you studying Japanese by yourself?” After such incident Gena was confused, but tried to continue conversation in Japanese. Young Asian lady supported him. But she was so risible that Gena can’t sustain this and retreated without farewell. Felt hurt seems to me” – told I.
“Beer is finished” – Vovka Petlyakov announced. But folks started to disperse before this news. The first examination of our last session will be in a week. And this will be the exam of the “aircraft structural design” discipline. It is time to start preparation. There are four examinations this summer. The diploma practice will start in coming fall and it will be passed into diploma project. The project defense will be in February of the next year. All of us will have one month vacation in March. And in April most of our male graduates will start their military serviced in the Soviet Army. Are we ready? Technically and theoretically – yes, we are prepared well. But what about our experience to communicate with soldiers, to motivate personnel, to be a leader? No, there is no such experience. And even command voice was not trained as it has to be. Maybe not for everybody, but for me this was true for sure.
Tags: Harbor, Herb, Missilemen
