He’s happy today — he always is when he’s working in the fields.
‘Why do Mum and Dad make me go to this school and study these subjects that a machine operator doesn’t need? It’d be better to thresh the grain at a leisurely pace; Mum would have more free time and it’d be easier for her. And let my younger sisters go to school instead, even though they’re already a bit older…’
Eleven-year-old Bogdan carefully lifts the reaper and stops the combine harvester at the edge of the field.
