jueves, 28 de abril de 2011

Freedom Ch 4: Carne Asada

Father went early to the carne asada reunion (if you could give it a name i think that would fit perfectly to that day). Mother and I went inside our house to get ourselves ready. After two hours we were ready and we head ourselves to the reunion.
We went walking, since the place was just two streets away from ours, a lot of neighbors that we didn't know where already there and you could hear the doctor's voice all over the street. The smell of the carne asada was attracting neighbors from all the streets around. There was music that father put very loud, and some neighbors were dancing or singing.
As we arrived we saw this skinny lady with a little girl around her, she was a nurse, a really good nurse , she was very dedicated to her career. She lived just in front of our house, she was part of that family that i loved so much, she was like that aunt that you could always count on. The little girl was her granddaughter, her daughter and his husband along with a new baby also lived in that same house. Mother and i sat down with her, we started to talk and we started to have a good time.
Father was just some steps away from us, and as it was used to he was the soul of the party, he was talking (or rather getting all the gossips up to date) with the neighbors that stop by his BBQ grill to ask him for a piece of meat.
The night was falling over in the street that was still full of neighbors, as i suspected, father's meat were already gone before the moon would turn in our only light. I got up from my chair and went to father. He began to make fun of the neighbors and i couldn't stop laughing.
There was this new neighbor (well for me) he was a young men, and he was in charge of the sodas and beer cans, he was kind of bold but he looked like a pretty cool man. Father couldn't stop laughing at him, he told me that since the morning he wasn't doing anything at all but still he got on an apron and a glove. He talked just like those persons with different sexual attractions, i don't know if he really is gay or not, but who cares? I have already consider him part of my family.
I went back with mother and the nurse to sit down, and while i was sitting i saw this tall teenage boy with father. I got up really quickly and i hugged him. It was one old friend, you know when freedom was around, he always had the best bicycle in the whole neighborhood. He smiled as he saw who i was, and we started to talk, even though we didn't talk a lot, it was really nice to see him again. There was also the boy,that was doctor's child, we used to play around he was the smallest of all of us, surprisingly now he was a little bit more taller than me. We hugged so tight, we both were happy to see each other since long time ago
It was really good to saw all of my neighbors together, all of them laughing and having a good time, despite that in the rest of the city there was just horror and depressing news. We were like in our own little bubble, in an event that just brought us happiness and lots of joyful moments. The carne asada reunion, at the end, was a great success, doctor was very happy with the results and with all the money that we got to begin with something to close our lovely neighborhood. Father and him started to talk about the next event, while i was hearing some ideas i could imagine how many reunions and joyful moments we would have again.

martes, 26 de abril de 2011

Freedom Ch 3: Father's Adiction

The big day was already here, you could hear outside how all of the neighbors started to get their BBQ grills out to were we where gonna meet. Father was very excited that day, he loves to make carnes asadas, he makes more that none every week.
It was kind of early when father was already to get started. He put on his apron and hat, he got some meat ready, a chair for himself and his BBQ grill up in his truck, but before he moved on, he put some music out loud that i guess that all of the neighbors knew that father was ready for the day.
Mother and i laugh out on how funny he looked. Father has always being a funny person, with everybody, and he would make fun (on a good way) of most of the neighbors.
I have always love father's personality, everybody loves father because of that; inin some how he is always the soul of the party.
I'm very proud of father, proud of how good he makes carnes asadas, and other meals, but proud of how he really is/

martes, 12 de abril de 2011

Freedom Ch 2: Family

Some days had past, how many? i don't really know. After what had father said the other day, he had being going to some meetings with the rest of the neighbors, three or four of those meetings had past until finally he invited me to one. I got excited at first because since i have use of memory i have said that neighbors equals to family.
Family. Now that i think about it, i have never had a normal or rather a decent family of my own, you know those with the same last name as you, those that can call you any time and invite you any were, no not me....at least not on my father's side. My father's family was kind of different, grandma, long time ago was a nanny and a maid in someones house consisting of a mother, father and four children, soon those people kind of adopted my father and now they're my "family" even though i have never feel like they were my real family. We approached the street were all of us we were meeting, as soon as i saw a big circle of people in the middle of a cold night and in the middle of the street i though: Family and a big smile got in my face.
The meeting was already starting, father got aside of this very tall man, who lived just one street after ours, he was a doctor, i don't know if for real he was a good doctor, but my instincts had always told me that he really was. I used to play with his children, when freedom was still around us. He was kind of the president of this whole thing, he really had a pretty strong voice, many people at the meeting said he had a microphone on his throat.
I really didn't understand a lot of what was going on, until almost the end of the meeting. They were all talking about this big event we would had next coming Saturday, everybody rapidly started to said what they could do to help.
Everyone went back to their homes walking, excited for next Saturday, i was really excited too, excited to have something really important with this people many of you called strangers, for some of you are just neighbors, but for me it was family.

lunes, 4 de abril de 2011

Freedom. Ch 1: News

Not so long ago i remember freedom. The freedom to play out on the streets with no problem and not being scared. It had being eleven or thirteen years, i don't remember now. As i look my father form the window i remember all of those moments from my childhood. Father was talking to one of the neighbors, i couldn't hear a thing until he came in to the kitchen talking to mother, i went to the kitchen fast thinking that it would be another little (or big) gossip from the neighborhood. Father sat down at the table just when i walked in. Then he talked to both of us. I couldn't believe those words he was saying and the explanation he gave. We were going to close our lovely neighborhood to be more secure, because now a days violence had took over the entire city. It was all over the news; newspaper, television, radio, everybody was talking about the violence, not only locally but also international. Saying this big bad things about the city that had watch me grow up for now a long time, saying that it was the most violent city of the whole word. Maybe all the neighbors got scared of that, or maybe it was because last week they stole two cars six houses down mine. Next week there was gonna be a meeting, a meeting to get together, organize and starting taking away freedom to be secure in a way.