Nick Neim's Stories

Tag: family

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 7 – Miscellaneous

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIX – MISCELLANEOUS One of my favorite styles in writing is potpourri, that is, a kaleidoscope of colorful events that gradually form into a pattern, canvas, fabric, in a word, material for an unexpected outfit – a novella. My readers are apparently familiar with “The Story of Chivali”, “Operation Singapore”,…

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 5 – Concerns and Meetings

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER FIVE – CONCERNS AND MEETINGS Now, many years after moving, past events look like filming in an accelerated rhythm: we arrived, learned a language, learned a specialty, got settled, raised children, helped relatives to settle, communicated with friends and even traveled. But, in fact, life then, compared to now, did…

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 2 – Getting used to a new life: an apartment

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER TWO – GETTING USED TO A NEW LIFE: AN APARTMENT In the very first month of our life here, many events and meetings took place that significantly changed our situation as an emigrants. The main thing was that we found housing for ourselves and separated from my Dad’s one. It…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 79 – Departure and arrival

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE – DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL And then we returned home, and seeing offs after seeing offs began. Feasts. Farewells. My classmates gave me a farewell party at Sveta’s (I talked about it in Chapter 21). Soon the plane tickets were in our hands. So we said goodbye to our…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 78 – The last year at home: life before leaving

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY EIGHT – THE LAST YEAR AT HOME: LIFE BEFORE LEAVING The most surprising thing was the change in the rules of emigration. Previously, people moved out, literally broke out, anywhere (to Vienna, Rome) and then headed wherever they wanted, if they could. I really didn’t like the stories about the annual…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 77 – The last year at home: initial setup

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN – THE LAST YEAR AT HOME: INITIAL SETUP The very first adventure awaited us on the city station platform. Despite the fact that the hospitable beer advertisement was still shining on the station square, something elusive in the spirit of the city had changed. The police, noticing that we…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 73 – The Moscow experiment: Interesting situations. Work and life (Part 1)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE – THE MOSCOW EXPERIMENT: INTERESTING SITUATIONS. WORK AND LIFE (PART 1) 1. Interesting situations Although Tbilisi and Moscow were cities of the same country (USSR), the customs, views and behavior of the people in them were so different that it seemed to me that sometimes in Moscow…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 64 – The apartment (we are expanding)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR – THE APARTMENT (WE ARE EXPANDING) I’ll go back a little in my memory flashes. Living conditions at Grandmother Tanya were not good, the new room on the second floor was under renovation, and no one had hot water, or a shower. Tanya’s rest room was…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 63 – The daughter

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY THREE – THE DAUGHTER When the time came for the birth, Lilya went to the capital to her parents for the best medicine, and I planned to come before the birth and achieve first-class care in the maternity hospital in the usual Georgian way of gifts and…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 61 – Our housing and work (Beginning)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY ONE – OUR HOUSING AND WORK (BEGINNING) After the wedding we returned to Tbilisi. In addition to studying and teaching students, I had to find housing and find a job for my wife. To begin with, we settled in a grandmother’s apartment in our yard. It was…