Blog 38-Ya nos vamos pa' la fiesta?

My backpack, the box of notebooks, the sack of flashdrives
I slept for as long as Taina would allow, not for long. She woke up and ran to Machi and David first. They shooed her away and she came to me because Julia was already at the Comedor. Taina never wanted to go to to the Comedor with Julia early in the morning since David was home. She wanted her Papi to take her to school. I dragged myself after her to the beach where she sat on our dune, kneaded a small mango, bit a tiny puncture at the bottom end, and sucked on the fruit. She'd done the same thing yesterday, her new breakfast routine. She sat sucking on her mango gazing at the sea. She looked proud and pleased to have organized her own breakfast. “I love living a la intemperie."She repeated a phrase she'd heard me say. “I love my Escuelita.” I kissed her. “Joyful, whole and complete being, I love you." She moved my laptop to the sand, draped herself across my lap, and looked into my eyes, then up at the sky. “I love the sky. Mi Mami esta en el cielo. My Mami's in the sky and my Papi was in the hills but now he's home. Will she come home too? Do you think people in el cielo can come back?" I was glad she didn't wait for my answer. She pointed to the mountains, jumped up, and ran to the tidal pool, waded for a bit, then settled down to dig her tunnel to where she said her Papi used to hide Hillside.
I settled myself with my laptop which I was free to use now that I knew I could so easily recharge it at Patria's or the Fabrica or the Comedor or the Fonda Migajas. Elba Luz had given me a new code to access the Karaya base wireless internet. She got the code from a Guardia (After last night I guessed it was Capitan Jodeda). The code was still good!
I webstalked Adela some more, on a larger screen. I was relieved that her book about Indignacion was a memoir and not a novel. I didn't know why but because of this fact I felt less failed. Maybe Patria had a copy I could put my hands on.
Taina ran past me back toward our shelter and I scrambled after her. “Ya nos vamos pa la fiesta?” I'd forgotten about la Fiesta Elba Luz was having at El Comedor to celebrate the Triunfo de la Huelga which she was claiming for her vigils.