UN "stars"

We were invited to stay for dinner. I like Uzbek cuisine and I did not have to be asked twice. Besides, I have always wanted to see how genuine samsa (a meat pasty) is cooked. We descend to the kitchen on the first floor, its door marked with a sign in Czech, Russian, and English "Open 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Women and Graduation Dresses on Sale only. Men welcome to use the percolator." Two microwave ovens inside the room, and no stoves.

Making samsa, the women recall their children back at home. Practically nothing is being said about the events commemorated with pickets and demonstrations throughout the world. "We could try and have the children brought here somehow, but it will be hard on our parents. Besides, Homecoming Dresses on Sale do not want to land the parents in more trouble than they already are in," Khadicha, 34, said, her eyes sad and making her look exhausted.

"We'll wait it out and go home when the situation has changed." - "And if it doesn't change?" - "Then we'll go home old women, and our children won't even recognize us," said Nadira, a woman with black eyes and a kind face.

"We hope that President Karimov will be charitable and call for us to come home," Kamilja said, with an eye on my running Dictaphone. She is the youngest of three. One of the women recalls life in a camp in Romania. "Men and we lived in different buildings. There Little Black Dresses on Sale lots of single women there. Out of respect for them, our husbands talked to us from a distance only. They approached the fence, talked to us, and left again. Real gentlemen, they were! Even the Romanians were surprised. Besides, everything was spotless, even the part where men resided. No littering, you know. UN soldiers said afterwards that they had never seen so "good" refugees before and that they were giving us five stars..." - "That makes you refugees of the five-star category, right?" The women burst in laughter, "Right!"

"They do not drink or smoke, and they speak with a Russian accent..."

Being a foreigner is not easy, but refugees from Andijan adapt. Gonza says they already speak passable Czech - particularly the women. Men are eager to find a job. "They are ever in a hurry to become self-sufficient again," Gonza explained. "They are immune to Short Prom Dresses social malady that affects a great deal of foreigners who spend years in camps for immigrants awaiting the refugee status and getting used to be content with the pittance provided by the state."