PARIS MAYO DEL SESENTA Y OCHO

 

 

 

 

MAY 1968

What these young people, Cuca and Emiliano,  were doing on may 1968 while Paris street´s were burning?.

 

 

Nothing similar to that, Spain was out of that movements because the dictatoship was absolutely strong an police were in the Complutense University were the students were the only  democratic force at the moment.

Cuca have taken her holidays at the work and she has gone to a city in the Malaga´s coast, Torreblanca it is the name of the beach little city and Cuca is in a little hotel with her mather for the first fifteen days of May. 

She wants to relax from everything, and the best form of be relaxed it is to go to the beach.

Cuca talked with Emiliano some other days after their talk in April, and she is feeling that with this boy she is pleased, she likes to be with him and touch different subjects that with her boyfriend it is not possible.

A nice conversation is one of the things in life she likes more, and being with this boy it is easy, he is a good listener and carrys the conversation the way she likes.

Cuca has been thinking a lot after the day both of them were alone in the class room. She thinks Emiliano has a girl friend waiting for him when he is coming home just because he seems to be in a hurry when they go out from the Institute. Now the four youngs are not going walking to her house any more, Emiliano says till tomorrow and disapear immediately from the class room.

Now that she is going to the beach, emiliano has said to her that is not a prudent actitude to go to the beach now if she wants to pass her exam in the bank. 

But she needs the beach, so here is she with her mother going to take Sun´s baths every day close near the sea side.

While she is in Torreblanca, the world out Spain seems to burst,  in France and other countries of Europe strikes and students fights were the rule day after day, France was stoped by so many strikes and the police hits thousand o people that was in the streets of Paris and other France big cities, but these news does not come where Cuca is resting.

  

By the contrary Emiliano is up to all these news, working as a soldier who has to write events of this nature, he has a lot of work. News come to Spain every moment and the dictatorship was alert, Secret Service where there was the soldier Emiliano was taking  notes of everything, listening to the police radio stations (this was another work to the soldier Emiliano) and having all the police agents inside the universities of Madrid and other Spanish capitals.

In the Spanish country it seems that nothing was happening, dictatorship try to no inform about these events, and the Spanish life was going on waiting for summer, holidays, beaches, swiming pools and easy life, nevertheless the world was changing very fast outside the border of this country.

At the end the  De Gaulle have to convocate elections in France that he lost, and things in France for its people start to be different.

In Spain there are persons that wants a change, but nothing hapens and life seems to be the same as before May 1968.

Cuca has returned from her holidays and the exams in the Bank were ahead to be done in June.

The lessons in the Jorge Juan Institute were finishing and the girl and the boy Emiliano sead each other "be lucky" I hope to see you after the exams having good news at that moment.

Emiliano is alone again, without talking with this girl he likes so much but his head is thinking in Canada, where soon he thinks could be working after less than two years. His future life was ahead in this cold country where he wants to go, out his country, out from the dictatorship he dislike so much, out some other rules in the Spanish societe of that time he also dislike.

Cuca is with Jose Luis, not very sure about her future and what is she going to do with the problem she had. She didn´t love this boy but it is difficult to say him go, I don´t like you any more, what to do?. Just wait some time to no hurt him?. In fact she doesn´t think in Emiliano as for her this boy has to be dating another girl as he never has told her loving words or he hadn´t do nothing in the way of dating her. For her Emiliano is a very nice young boy, serious and very good talking and listener, she felt at his side incredible good but what can she do about the subject?, nothing. 

She is a serious girl that have already a boyfriend and being dating with him it is inimaginable to date another boy, Emiliano or which ever one who wanted to date her, that´s certain in her mid while she is with Jose Luis.  She has felt herself very confortable talking with the boy, Emiliano, that she is not going to see more as they never has done anything inappropriate. Good for him and for her, their friendship has ben clear and absolutely fair, that´s good and gives her a nice feeling to think about it.

 

 

 

to be continued.... 

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