Adinay Peña Díaz

“What are the functions of nurses?” “Of nurses in an office... infinite, infinite. I'm just going to tell you, with the daily duties, what you have to do to pregnant women, to children under one year of age, any patient you have at that moment who is sick that you have to go see, with this is more than enough. And now I can't even imagine how many things more, due to the coronavirus pandemic… how many more things they have to do. And those duties that you have to fullfill daily, those you have to write in the daily notebook. It’s more than enough for the time you get for work. It's putting lies there, to all the papers you have to do.”

“There were holes in the shelter, they climbed through the eaves of the shelter, and sometimes there were broken slats from the shelters and people from the street also got inside. At that age we were a little less afraid, but it was also difficult.” “How were your friends? What was the group like, how did they support each other?” “We were almost always a little group of friends, who shared the shelter, who took care of things, who took care of each other, but you always had a closest friend, with whom you shared everything, all the problems and so on.”

“I remember that they took us to the field school to pick potatoes, around noon we were there picking potatoes. Sometimes they took us in the afternoon, when the sun was even stronger. And we had to comply, because we had to comply with a rule, you know. That's how they had us, like 'you have to pick this and this standard smount', I don't remember well, 'we’ll give you this and this encouragement and a thousand another things'. And they were always controlling us and we worked hard. Another thing was that they took us in some cars, the cars full of boys, you can imagine. I was always one of the smallest. And one of the last numbers in the classroom, because the first ones to mount take the railings in cars along the shore and those come, and go a little more comfortable, but when I arrived, oh boy, the road was terrible down there, the road was bad. And we had a lot of work, and we had to work.”