11-V-1969.

The competition was ridiculous, because there was no competition. The two of us from Zmaj were the only ones in cine technics. Which made a good laugh at the big rollout, yup, we were big. Though, the moment when Gradivoj and B. marched in was the same - don't know what their discipline was, should be something electric.

At ruža in the evening. Met at Dragana's building with Zvojko, Gradivoj and one more guy, then went to Zvojko's place, came out with a piece of cake each. Found out that at last doček, Gradivoj was dragged home drunk, and that the next time we'll probably do it at his place again, that he doesn't consider Oli Boj and Đica as real girls (no running gossip about them, so still too young), that he tried the female twin (Sarča's sister) from the 8th grade but she refused, that he's currently with manastirka brandy. We spotted Tejka and Duca, so went after them, but stopped to buy sunflower seeds and they were gone. We zigzagged from place to place, Rencika was there, he leaned on her fića and it wasn't handbraked, so it moved, the whole ruža is sloping down to the river and the buildings have forced pieces of surrounding land into horizontal, so there are many slight slopes everywhere. We maneuvered it back gradually, as we couldn't push it straight up, had to zigzag.

Today we almost got into trouble at school - we were tossing sneakers, and one went too high and hit the glass shield on the light fixture. I saw who did it, but refused to write it down, just in case. Now, 50-some years later, I really don't remember the incident itself.

We quickly gathered the shards and stuffed them under the cupboard. After classes, we maneuvered the glass from the fixture in the rear to replace the one now missing - it's less noticed there - and packed the shards into someone's schoolbag. In a day we're off the hook, nobody will know whether it was one of us, or the other shift did it, or when exactly did it happen. "Operation monk" was a success (still don't know how we came to that name).

There was, finally, a gossip that Đica loves me, now there's another one that she doesn't. It's still better to be uninformed.

My folks were away today, auntie Janja was getting married. Dad took the regula along, but it turns out he made only four shots. And not on one of them is there anyone smiling. Unbelievable. And, mind you, the whole family was there - both dad's sisters with (almost all) their children, granddad, his brother with son and daughters and their spouses... and still not one smile.

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Mentions: 20-VI-2021., auntie Janja, doček, Dragana Vitas (Dragana), Dušica Tošin (Duca), Đurđica Oraški (Đica), Emerencija Nerdelji (Rencika), fića, Gradivoj Čović, Gradivoj Sarčević (Sarča), Olivera Stojanović (Oli Boj), regula, ruža, Slavica Tejin (Tejka), Zmaj, Zvonko Darišić (Zvojko), in serbian

4-VI-2020 - 20-VI-2023