30 June 2013
What should one do when one
hasn’t bathed in ten days? Take a very long walk in the very warm sunlight,
obviously! Haha. Today was beautiful, and I didn’t want to waste it, especially
after having been confined indoors so much by rain the previous day. I told
Rita that I was going to go for a walk, in the vain hope that she might say
“No, don’t go! We’re going to the banya!” Instead she told Aidai to go with me,
to make sure that I didn’t get lost. I doubt my Shadow would have kept up with
me the entire way had she not been instructed to do so, as the route I’d
decided to take was fairly long – down to the lake and back, a walk of several
miles. To her credit, she didn’t complain too
much, other than a couple of “Are you sure
you want to go to the lake? It’s really
far!” type comments.
About 3/4 of the way to the
lake, we passed the home of a friend of hers (and one of my students) named
Akbermet, who decided to join us. At that point, Aidai became a lot more
excited about the prospect of a walk down to the lake and back.
When we finally reached the
water, the girls swam while I relaxed on the shore. I contemplated using the
lake as a banya-substitute to somewhat clean myself off a bit, but despite the
warm weather, the water was just too chilly for me. I couldn't bring myself to wash more than my feet.
Eventually, we decided to
head back. When we reached Akbermet’s house, her parents invited us in for tea,
which was quite wonderful, since at that point I was VERY thirsty. The girls
decided that Akbermet would spend the night at our house so that she wouldn’t
have so far to walk for class in the morning. We headed home, and made it
inside just before the afternoon rains hit.
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