I wondered all kinds of things.
I wanted to know stuff.
I think it drove my family nuts.
I always wondered where things were.
In 4th grade Eduardo knew where everything was.
The teacher made a game with our atlases.
We had atlases, can you believe that!
Our own, in our desks.
And dictionaries, one each.
The teacher would call out a place.
It could be a continent, an ocean, a country, a city, a river, a mountain range, a capital...deserts, plains, steppes, what ever, Eduardo could find it. He was very smart, very handsome, tall, nice...the whole shebang.
I was too shy to talk to him.
What was new about that?
I hardly talked to girls I wasn't close to,
how could I ever talk to a boy.
But I married a guy who knows a lot, is smart, handsome and nice.
And I talk to him a lot.
And it's ok with him.
And he tells me the answers to all my questions.
Even if he doesn't know the answers.
It's cute when he tells me all about the engine he fixed. I only follow a tiny bit, but it makes him happy to explain it to me, so I listen. Tonight it was something about a bolted plate. And a fuel equalizer.
So anyway, he didn't tell me, but I discovered something on my own, on the BBC. It explains the fall of Communism between 1989~1991. Gorbachov was an amazing guy. He watched this all happened and came to the U.S. and he and his wife were smiling, smiling, smiling.
Click here watch the Soviet Union fall apart!
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As you know, in August 1990, I visited Russia for a month. It was the time of perestroika and glasnost - two Gorby ideals - which may have influenced our exchange group to be allowed (at the last minute) into the U.S.S.R. - it was an exciting but turbulent time. You could certainly feel the rumblings and grumblings of change...
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