“I am growing up” (Confusion)
I am fourteen-years-old and I don't want to grow up. The older I get the more responsibilities I have. I already have to face many issues without the help of an adult. Whatever was not allowed two or three years ago is now turning into a responsibility. Many children are happy with such changes, but not I. It is possible that I am selfish. I like the fact that my parents look after me. On the contrary, I do not like the thought that after a few years I have to think about how to manage my own life. But no one can stay fourteen forever, and I have no choice but to accept this fact, just like all the other young people who have lived and do live in the world.
Wrote at 14 years old age
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It was a usual evening. We were sitting in the dinning room and my parents started talking about a business trip. But then I was reading about a book about a sleuth and a murderer and did not listen to what they said. Mom does not like travelling but she is good at packing; she needs some twenty minutes to pack all the necessary things. Dad is different. He always takes the most important things with him, even when he goes to work. He has everything for every kind of occasion. When my parents are not able to find something they turn to me:
“Cot, where is the shoe brush?”
“I know for sure that I have not used it, but it is in my shelf,”
exclaimed mom when looking for her comb under my bed.
“I have not taken it, mom.”
“Then, explain me, please, why is it in your room?”
Of course, I cannot explain this, I thought to myself. The worst thing was that I woke up every night and could not understand what my parents were looking for, so that I could find it myself and put it on its proper place. But once I found father’s belt, which had become a cat training leash. As for mom’s comb, I had combed my friend’s dog with it. I could not just find anything better then. It is really impossible to find my dad’s handkerchiefs because they are in very unusual places. I found three handkerchiefs, but when I took them to father he shouted at me:
“Do you think these dust cleaners are my handkerchiefs?”
The handkerchiefs really looked like dusters because they had been lying under dad’s bed for a long time. I cannot say that everything shines in our flat but my mother puts everything in order. I don’t let mother clean my room because I fail to find anything later. I myself manage to clean my room only twice a year, staffing everything under my bed.
At last my parents left. A week is not such along a period but I miss them.
When I was seeing mom off I told her:
“Mom, you are so beautiful, your hair look better this way, don’t comb them any more.”
I had washed the comb by then already but who knows…
I like when everything is ordered. I am attentive and tidy about my classes, clothes, computer, cat and writings. And only my room disturbs the whole harmony.
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“The Cat Which Was Also a Dog” (We and Animals)
They brought me the kitten when it was only four months old. Chika hid under the bed and started mewing in a strange way. My mother’s friend, who had given the cat, said to us:
“Chika has grown up among dogs. That’s the reason of her strange meow.”
Actually it wasn’t mewing at all, it was barking like a doggy. It resembled a dog in many ways. One day mother came home after work, took off her gloves and Chika has quick to seize one and hide under the arm-chair.
“Bring it back, you little fool”, shouted my mother tapping Chika on the nose with the other glove.
We got very surprised when we saw Chika coming out from under the arm-chair with a guilty look, a dusty muzzle and the glove in her teeth.
Chika is very shy. It hides somewhere when we have guests and come up only when they are gone.
Once we weren’t even able to find her.
I got disappointed, but then I saw Chika lying on my pillow, yawning and peering at me with its cunning eyes.
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The First of June is Children’s Day. Grown-ups sometimes note jokingly:
“This is not a day to protect children but more a day to be protected from them.”
This is surely a joke but I think they should always protect children and not leave this for one day only. Grown-ups may say:
“What shall we protect you from? You don’t have any problems.”
This is true, for attending school is the only problem for most of us. But there are those who just dream of this. They have no money to buy books and copy-books. This is these children grown-ups should protect from other grown-ups as the latter are to blame for the problems.
They always discuss these things on the first of June. People make frantic speeches on our country’s coming day on our responsibility for building a prosperous country no matter how difficult a task it may seem. I don’t know what his all will bring to but on the 2nd of June things go the same old way: we see children-beggars, children-sellers... who try to earn their living. Many families leave all they have in wartime and become refugees. They immigrate to foreign countries are not able to settle problems. Children should first of all be protected from grown-ups’ reckless behavior.
I don’t like people promising things & doing nothing. I thought of writing good things on the occasion of this day, to tell how nice we are though you know that even without my words. Don’t you always say children are your future? I cannot guess why only your future. Just today I want to ask all of you to care for children for they can’t do this themselves.
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“Cartoon Programs” (Confusion)
Some months ago I thought that it would be better if new TV channels appeared and new kids’ TV programs were created. But I turned out to be wrong. Every time after watching children’s TV programs I throw away the remote control. And after every time my father reprimands me to repair it. Though kids’ TV programs have grown in number, all of them are alike in a sense. I’ll try to tell you about one of them and you will understand for yourself my point.
“Hello, dear TV watchers,” they say as usual. After it they kind of try to tell a joke.
“Children, do you know what we have prepared for you? Oh, of course you don’t, because you don’t even know our names . . .” And here the reporter begins to laugh; he thinks that he has a great sense of humour. Then he tells about the program.
“Today we’ll show you the interview with Hovik and his dog. A report about popcorn and of course—a cartoon!”
The reporter begins the interview, but he doesn’t know what to ask, so he asks Hovik’s name (for the seventh time). The cameraman shows Hovik’s legs, so you can’t understand if “Hovik” is his name or the name of his company.
Then they show a report about popcorn. I think the cameraman was drunk because the camera was shaking.
The popcorn vender was telling how to make popcorn and the operator was still showing people’s legs.
At last the cartoon began. But the dubbers’ voices were so scary that I lost any wish to watch it. I don’t want to tell you the name of the program because all of them are like that. All I want to say is that they should ask our opinion about their programs—well, at least sometimes.
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