Katerina worked alone, there was nothing much to ask. Having collected all the details that could be machined, she wrote programs under the guidance of the project manager, developed the tools that had to be drawn and put into production.
Over time, it turned out that she only needed to write a program and draw something that was not in the machine, and other people could be involved in the introduction. This wonderful work determined the purpose of Katerina herself in her production life. At the last stage of her studies at the institute, she had to choose whether she would be a technologist or a designer.
Grisha worked in the next shop, so he could accompany Katerina on a pre-diploma practice. Their love has become a road character, since they did not have the time to communicate with others. Walks and kisses under the rustle of the foliage of the poplars were almost traditional.
Katerina’s graduation project was progressing, and her relationship with Grisha was somewhat stalled. Vitaly noticed that Katerina had lost interest in Grisha, approached her with a suggestion:
– Katerina, become my wife after graduation. It is possible to get a star on the epaulettes and become a guard at the factory. I don’t like to be a designer, I don’t want to be a technologist, I decided to become a security officer, because their salaries are currently higher than those of young engineers and engineers. I will give you real gold and natural turquoise, similar to your beautiful eyes!
– Vitali, do you and Grisha live in the same room in the hostel? Who have you heard enough?
– A photojournalist came to us, shot us and told tales.
– Now I understand why you started talking about one topic.
In winter, Katerina went to the region championship in cross-country skiing to a village near the lake. Air temperature – minus forty. Training and competition canceled for three days. Skiers went to the only coffee to eat coupons. The same song sounded in the cafe: “A pair of hounds, pulled by a dawn, forever tired…”
To keep fit, two days in the lobby of the room where the sportsmen were located, music sounded: all the fast dances danced for many hours. There was no sports hall in the village. On the third day, the coach bought a ram. The guys tied a ram to the radiator, then the animal was slaughtered, and in the next house they cooked food for all skiers. On the fourth day, the air temperature was minus thirty-five degrees. Competitions have decided not to postpone.
Ointment rubbed on the coldest weather. Dressed skiers for the race quite easily. At a distance of ten kilometers, the first five kilometers of the foot shrank from the cold and stiffened, then they began to depart and burn. When Katerina came to the finish line, there was a commotion there: a large male skier, at a distance of fifteen kilometers, froze her fingers, a cornfly plane was called for him to send to the city.
At the first session, Katerina arrived late, she passed the exams, but the teachers said: “Athlete” – and lowered her grades by one point. As an athlete, she was released from sports at the institute, she was automatically credited. She was asked to speak at the championship course flow. We had to run three laps of one kilometer. She outperformed the runner-up for one round. And later in her life were studying and training. Classmates and athletes skiers.
Katerina decided to go to a youth sports school after reading an advertisement in a newspaper. One autumn, she came to the youth sports school, where she wanted to choose a volleyball sports section. The school administration was in a blackened little wooden house. She opened the old door and saw a very handsome man who turned out to be a ski coach. The blue-eyed trainer with light brown hair persuaded her to become a skier, it was Theophan.
Katerina persuaded classmate Lyudmila, the backbone of the ski section was formed. Familiar guys appeared – Anton and Kirill. Training up to five times a week tied all the same goal. What did Katerina look like? Height 169. Waist 63. Hair, braided in a braid, she tucked with a tape, it turned out a pretzel.
The trainings were fabulous. At the boat station, they took boats and swam the river on them, then walked along the channels. Hands in bloody blisters. Strength training: they took decent cobblestones and threw them backwards. Swam in the river next to the boat station. We ran for speed on the steep bank of the river. On the beach in the offseason chasing football. They played rugby on the sports field.
And skis? In winter, skiing. Frost. No snow. Scrape the snow. They did ski runs and ran. The snow fell, and then the ski track became normal. Interestingly, skiers did not fall in love with their skiers…
Katerina with 15 years spent a lot of time on the river. The first day on the boat to swim across the river was difficult psychologically. Once skiers came to the training. On a warm day, rowing. In each boat sat two people. Katerina trained in a pair with Lyudmila. They rowed in turn. The closer to the fairway of the river, the stronger felt the huge mass of water under the boat. From the fairway to the other shore was much closer, and the feeling of fear from the suspense passed.
The opposite shore is covered with low shrubs, and sand and sand are everywhere. It was good to sail another five hundred meters on the boat and to see a very flat beach with small bald areas of water. The water in such places on a warm summer day was hot, it was always nice to rest here. Skiers went ashore and drove a football on the beach. There are a lot of people here on Sundays, and there were practically no people on summer evenings and on weekdays.
From the main channel of the river went in boats to the sleeve of the river, covered with grass, and rowed to the exit into the river itself. The banks in the channel are almost the same height, about half a meter, overgrown with grass and small, rare bushes. Once, it was in such a duct that Katerina broke her ditch on a boat. Skiers did not take food and water for training. She did not panic from the fact that the oarlock on the oar broke. The rest of the boats spread along the channel and did not wait for each other and did not catch up.
The girls had to return to the base across the big river, and the paddle was one. They are young, beautiful, in bathing suits and with a broken oar key in the boat. Fortunately for them, a man of indeterminate age sailed past in a motorboat. He hitched the boat to the motor boat, the boat’s nose was slightly raised, the water flooded a little across the side, but they swam to the boat station.
On Navy Day, skiers swam across the river in a narrow but deep part to participate in a parade of river modes of transport. Four people were sitting in the kayak: Katerina and three guys, one of them was completely new. The waves in this part of the river are always decent. The new guy was frightened, began to beat the oar on the water. Kayak rocked. The waves flooded her. And the kayak, like a submarine, plunged into the abyss of the river with the rowers-skiers.
Everything emerged from the water, and to the coast to sail far and towards the city even further than to the island. Experienced skiers took: one – a kayak, two oars collected, pushed next to him and float. The girl just had to swim to the shore. Narrow river in this place, but everything is relative.
This place is not for swimming, a deep place with constant waves. Katerina floated, and one thought pounded in her head: “That’s how people drown.” The girl didn’t want to sink, and she swam to the shore at the same time with the guys. Life-saving equipment was not taken in a kayak, they passed trainings without insurance.
Skiers swam even along the river channels in eight kayaks. This is already a speed regatta. Such training left a magical sense of speed. These kayaks are harder to lift from the water and carry to the hangar. The hangar was located on an island near the hills. On the shore was a small pier for boats. From this pier got up on the water ski. To be honest, there were craftsmen who were good