by Galina Toktalieva To make our lessons more enjoyable, young teacher replacing an older one, urged us to talk in German about personal ambitions, stimulating our activity by patient approach of recently baked pedagogue and by genuine curiosity that glowed at her fresh innocent face. Poor German and lack of imagination may seem connected, if [...]
By Galina Toktalieva Dear Vlad, Thanks for your concerns and for being always there for me. Now after 10 years of relapse we can correspond again, as before, when we were Moscow students. In your last letter you write that your girlfriend feels so upset by illness of her dog that she stopped painting, and [...]
Галина Токталиева Наверно нет на свете человека, который не мечтал бы получить вдруг от судьбы щедрый подарок. Один рад был бы просто поесть досыта, другой мечтает о новом авто, а третьему хотелось бы не меньше, чем виллу на берегу моря. Многие не прочь бы мгновенно обогатиться за счёт других, а именно – выиграть в лотерею [...]
By Galina Toktalieva For thousands of years living without electricity and toothpaste, our forefathers, free of matrimonial restraints forced later by patriarchate, used to choose intimate partner by smell, as many mammals do. Probably the ability of humans to perceive odors partly degenerated with time. But even now in epoch of commercial odorants and perfumes, [...]
By Galina Toktalieva – Why are always dressed up in black? It does not suit you at all, – dropped one of my female companions exhaling smoke of her cigarette, while we were on porch of one feeding on unemployment institutions, where we had our German classes, – three women making small talk in Russian. [...]
by Galina Toktalieva As quick portraiture photographer and sporadic photo model I have never met someone really joyful about her own portraits, including myself. Moreover, certain persons, who at first enthusiastically pose, give signs of bitter disappointment with their pictures afterwards. Similarly to me – when I posture for my colleagues, – my improvised models [...]