I dream of my nightingale, two, or three?

December 22, 2014

Dearest,

I just received your December 16, 2014, letter along with three letters from Nick, Colin, and Judy (nice card). I was really happy to read everything. Please thank them all for me. I loved your letter a lot because it had more news especially regarding Jena, the pregnancy, and friends’ stories. I also liked the fact that you left no empty space on the pages (except the last page). I must admit that my heart was on fire when I read Jena’s news; it’s killing me. I still cannot look at her photos for a long time because I fear the consequences: hot fire in my heart, tears, etc. I’m glad you're managing and friends are great. Thank them for me please.

I liked your suggestion about writing to Jena. I hope she received my hand-made, coloured card in my second letter. I'll try but I cannot promise because it takes a lot to write to her. I’m not sure if I'll suffocate half way.

Anyway, the money is supposed to be in my account though I didn’t see it on the receipt I received today which came with a small canteen order from last week (four stamps). I transferred some money from my canteen to my telephone account which I also did two weeks ago but with no result then. It’s messy here with the telephone and with other things too, in addition to the language barrier.

I am reading Daiva’s novel, The Guardian, and The Economist. If you send me the few novels you have on the shelf at home, I’ll be okay for a good time with reading. You can always send some novels or books from Amazon (used ones – paperback) directly to me here.

One of the guys gave me today sweat pants and white socks. So I’m getting more stuff from people around.

I forgot to mention a story from the exercise room. There was a new inmate in the room exercising on the bicycle. Not long after we arrived he fell on the floor and (almost) lost consciousness. He’s young (late 20’s?). Luckily André is a doctor (gynecologist) and helped him until the door was open (Jonathan had to bang hard on it), and two nurses showed up and took him with them. He may have had some low blood pressure or lack of food at the time. He said he lost 8 Kgs since he arrived last week. He looked very healthy and fit when he first came. Well, we had a story after that to guess and gossip about. Well, this could happen to anyone.

I noticed (on TV) that you have warm weather in Ottawa, despite the 10 cm of snow two weeks ago. We have a record (in 114 years) no snow this Christmas, plus it’s almost always above 10 degrees C. Poor Jena she came in the coldest year, while the little baby is coming to a snow-free world.

What else? It’s close to midnight. I feel tired after some hard exercise (weight lifting). My brain is in low gear. I might read a few pages of a novel, then I'll dream of my nightingale, two, or three? Well I wish I can help... Wish you the best and all will be just fine!