The Dream of Mirel

Mirel's dream Like any Dragomiresti market day, people come and go for the posts of fruits and vegetables, freshly baked bread, textiles and a host of motley goods placed with care. In one of them is Andrei Mirel, his father, selling a pair of calves, among other products of the land they obtained from a farm located ten miles from town. His family is split and can work, his parents are engaged in farming and a bakery in a nearby cooperative, while his younger brother and he helps in the farm when classes end at school. Mirel has always been an introverted and lonely boy, even your hobbies, coin collecting or fishing, talk about their desire to be alone. He does not like this kind of life, it notes with curiosity and hope your neighbor Alexandru, who has recently returned from France. It was a couple of years to work and does not seem to have gone wrong, he walks with a good car for the people and boasts of money. Mirel believes this is the solution, away from it all, leave their country and sought a new life.

Talk to your parents, they say you have to finish high school, and helping on the farm, besides taking care of his brother, while they work, nod resigned to categorical approaches that make but not desist in the depths of their hearts to carry out their plans. He knows his mother is keeping small amounts in a box that is in your bedroom, small savings when needed. Take your brother is at school and their parents at work, take 1500 euros, and away from home to Bucharest. His intention is to travel to Madrid, where he believes awaits a new life. On the way to the airport has repented of what he has done, escape from home, stealing money from his parents, fleeing to an uncertain fate, but it can more forward to starting this adventure that the fears and uncertainties.

Arrived in Madrid, with the illusion intact, roaming the streets. The first obstacle is the language, and who is alone, and do not know anyone to help him take his first steps of "freedom?. The money is running out, survive sleeping in cheap guesthouses and eating whatever they can. Try to find a solution to their precarious economic situation. Looking for jobs in construction, garages, shops, but has no papers. The reality of his situation is present in him, and walks the streets aimlessly, where fear, and anguish filled his heart. Some Africans to help us for a few days is in a shelter, at least sleep indoors. One day he meets a Romanian who promises to help cure the problem is that he lives in Valencia and have to travel there, but goes on the road hitchhiking, comes to town looking for the Turia and I thought it would help. The "father? gives long, and the promises remain just that. Again only in a strange city, with the four words you have learned, still looking for work, going to markets and reaches into the containers, eating what you find.

He realizes that his dream was just that, a dream every time he remembers more of his family, his life in Dragomiresti, but do not want to return, you may be more ashamed of how it was, he believed he would return as a friend Alexandru, but the reality is you have now. On the outskirts of Valencia, lives in a shack that was built with wooden pallets stolen remains of what in the nearby gardens. Cold nights, despair and bitterness, and think that carried three long months living in this "house?, On the edge of nowhere. One of the days when you feel more anxious, down to the village, along a road lined with orchards and ditches, arrives at the plaza, to the places where they meet those who, like him, looking for work. There are Moroccans, Somalis, shifty-eyed people wandering around a miserable wage. No luck. Tired of spinning takes the path to your "home?, But as I passed an old woman greets you in this language, Mirel surprised answers, and start chatting with her, all right then memories of his land, his family, he crammed into his throat.

He tells what he did, his desire to improve the circumstances in which it is happening, her despair, she listens and promises to help. A few days back to the house of this lady, her son has found work in a play. Mirel's face is filled with joy, his luck has changed. Start working and what gains leaves the shack where he lives and moves to town, his life slowly returns to normal. A later call their parents are more than two years without talking to them, and explains what happened, his repentance for having taken the money. They will forgive, and ask him to come home. He explained that working, they want to return the money, give time, not wanting to return as a failure. It has a home and share it with friends. One of them proposes to do other work that is more dangerous but better paid and are not careful, entering a dark world, which is very hard to leave. The ending is predictable Dragomiresti is long gone. Artworks http://www.colectivomoraga.com

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