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Kazakhstan Poverty Research - Wednesday, Sep. 20 (Day Twentyone)





Wednesday 20 September
Dinner at the Lyalya`s House
Lailya, doubtless the heroin of our research trip, has lived with her grandmother for a long time since her father and mother were working in Astana. Her family is a kind of typical educators, since her grandfather was one of the most eminent entomologists in Kz, (and one of examiner for Dr Roman’s doctoral thesis) and her father is nuclear physicist who got the degree from Moscow. Her mother is a university professor who studied in Germany. Her mother prepared so much foods and we really enjoyed the food. The only concern was that her grandmother did not have good health recently and she could not have a dinner with us. Maybe to her, we were like bad merchants who came to take her precious grand daughter away from her. The relationship between the grandmother and Lailya more convinced my feeling and impression. Next year Lailya will leave her grandmother and I am still very worried about her psychological damage after Lailya leaving. I wish her a great health and hope she can come to Japan to meet her granddaughter.

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