us and [sr].

< when i was twelve
i had to choose between german and russian
my dad told me to do russian because then he could help me with the homework

i was confused as to why he knew the language so well
but when he was a child, russian was our country's language

see, my sister was born in 1990,

a year after the baltic chain of freedom

but a year before the fall of ussr.

she was born in soviet union

and i was born in latvia,

only a seven year difference.

i was born in a free country

childishly i was unaware

that nothing in life is as easy as it seems, and that when i grow up
hearing latvian on a street would become almost unusual.

most of my friends fell in love with travelling,

they moved, and so did i,

and what's left now is the generation who fought for our freedom

left to watch it disappear. >