Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

She doesn’t pay attention to Laura any more.

The Lejasupītes farmhouse is similar to Mīma’s house. Only here the veranda’s windows have been broken.

The large house has been divided into many small flats. At Upītes farmhouse there’s only one door that leads to the yard, but here there are many. Each door is in a different color, each obtained from a different place. In Mīma’s house there are curtains on every window, here old sheets have been hung, and rags have been stuffed in the broken, open panes. Laura has asked why that’s so, but Mīma has responded that she doesn’t want to either think or talk about it, why trouble her heart, let people live as they like. It’s good that the previous owners of the farmhouse don’t see all this, otherwise they’d turn over in their graves in Siberia. Can one turn over in one’s grave, Laura doubts it. Besides that Mīma doesn’t know that people in the graves in Siberia are frozen stiff, because there in the depths of earth there is permafrost. Laura thinks that the owners of Lejasupītes can’t after all turn over in their graves. No way they could. But let Mīma think they can. Rita’s mama has cards! She and two other aunties are playing a Latvian card game called Pigs, while chewing on semushkas – sun flower seeds and fighting off flies. Shit- eating flies swarm around the game of Pigs and even more

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