Meanwhile, Art and Poetry Performances in
Smart Garden together with community leaders, women observers, environmental leaders, officials, and artists was ready to be held tonight.
The event was also enlivened by small traders, hawkers and toy traders, and plastic carpet traders for seating.
The event would be covered by local and national media. All guests who attended the event weren't provided with any seats, they all had to sit on the floor. The program began with a prayer reading then singing the national anthem, and a welcome dance from the children from the nature school.
Shasha left her literacy cart below the left of the stage. The guests and spectators who attended contributed a lot of reading books for children in the smart park, these were now being collected in the cart. The carts were filled to the top with the books donated by the community even before the event started.
Shasha intended to push the cart toward the gazebo reading corner.
Shasha's power was too low to push him, Edo took over the cart because he saw that she was unable to push the cart, Edo's initiative was followed by other youths.
In the corner of the field, Regina pursed her lips.
"Pretentious!" She grumbled.
"She was deliberately asking for people's attention."
Desy swore too. "That's normal. Fresh faces!"
Their chatter attracted the attention of the people around them. But they didn't care.
Art shows generally lack a common audience. Maya Agustin had to mobilize her supporters and they wear the attributes of Maya Agustin t-shirts and they were cheering Maya Agustin with slogans, so now the event resembled a campaign event, this made the organizing committee admonish them to calm down and not make a fuss.
They did not understand how to watch poetry that requires calm to listen to the contents of the readers' poetry. Their boisterous voices disturbed the rest of the audience.
What Maya Agustin's supporters did was detrimental to her, in turn, when she read poetry, people could not even listen to what Maya Agustin was reading.
Maya Agustin's poetry contains about the lawsuit against environmental pollution that she prepared himself. When reading it, Maya Agustin's voice lost to the boisterous claps and whistles of her supporters.
Shasha watched her mother from a distance.
Maya Agustin knew that Shasha was there, but as far as she could see in the field, she could not find Shasha.
This performance was not so important to Maya Agustin, because her hidden goal was to find Shasha and bring her to her father.
When her guards tried to surround Shasha, several hidden guards had already paralyzed them.
The shadow guards had carried out their duty to protect Shasha from intruders. Shasha didn't realize that some men had been beaten up and were sitting on the grass like drunken people. The police immediately secured them.
Mr. Isaac Ibrahim watched the art performances disguised as a roasted peanut trader. He was standing not far from Shasha. It was very easy for him to meet Shasha, in fact, every day he could chat with Shasha as a mobile roasted peanut seller using a cart.
Shasha often helped drive Mr. Isaac's cart around the park, which was safe from the rain.
Mr. Isaac sometimes joined Shasha's activities picking up trash in the garden.
That night, the art performances did not match the expectations. The mayor did not even have time to read the poetry. He opened the event and then left, lazy to meet Maya Agustin. Even though at first he wanted to be on the same stage with Maya Agustin, but the large audience made a scene, the mayor became discouraged. The show was chaotic.
Mr. Rahmat then focused on directing the civil service to secure the event by dividing the audience's concentration toward the distribution of free food into three places, far from the park and venue. This automatically reduced the audience for the stage considerably. Maya became annoyed at the actions of her rival and ex-husband.
The purpose of seeking participation in this activity was for attention, it wasn't achieved all because of her ex-husband's interference.
Mr. Isaac Ibrahim smiled. Watching two people who used to love each other, were now consumed by their respective ambitions.
Regina and Desy left the place early, the event was useless for her, she was even busy killing mosquitoes. Regina didn't like to use the anti-mosquito lotion that Desy offered her, her skin was too precious than the anti-mosquito lotion that will irritate her skin.
Shasha came home pushing the cart with the help of kind young men. Edo's complaints about his rivals in winning Shasha's heart were endless.
Mr. Rahmat too complained about one thing in his heart - his relationship with Shasha was just like any other stranger.
Actually, in Shasha's heart, there was a desire to be close to her father. But anger and prestige prevented her from getting close to Mr. Rahmat.
Incredibly, no one knew that the respectable mayor was the real father of the cart-driving girl.
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This nature school was built by all the residents together with an environmental group led by Shasha, a special group focusing on the well-being of child scavengers, which only measured 6x6 meters, in the form of an old gazebo that had not been used for a long time.
Since last month, a decision was made by the local government that the gazebo will be torn down and a waste control unit will be built.
Nature school was now temporarily moved to the park before the government could compensate them with a new building.
The nature school was a halfway house for child scavengers who were still not in school. Many child scavengers could not afford to go to school, they then participate in learning packages, packages A, B, C [1], recently the school had participants not only children and adolescents but also parents.
This then attracted the attention of the local government to provide a decent and comfortable learning place for the community.
The moment of excitement arrived, there was no way for Shasha to avoid meeting her real father.
Meanwhile Shasha's mother, Maya Agustin, secretly met Mrs. Maimunah at her rented house.
Maya Agustin's visit to her mother's house was a secret, unknown to her husband and stepdaughter, Regina.
The meeting between mother and daughter was not as touching as the meeting between Mrs. Maimunah and the mayor the other day. Mrs. Maimunah, Maya Agustin's mother suspected that Maya Agustin's intentions were not sincere. The meeting could be said more because of pressure from her father, Mr. Isaac, who gave Maya a condition.
First, Maya Agustin had to acknowledge Shasha as a child in public, second, she had to become a liaison between her father and mother.
Maya Agustin accepted both of these conditions to smooth out her way to reach her goals, Maya wanted to get an injection of campaign funds from her father
For Maya Agustin, this reward was very difficult to digest, because it was her right to demand as much money from her father, as the only daughter of Mr. Isaac Ibrahim.
This opened up the secret she had been hiding for a long time.
Of course, this will have implications for her relationship with her husband and Regina, her stepdaughter. As for Shasha, it will disturb the peace of her life.
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[1] non-formal education pathways facilitated by the Government for students who study not through the school pathway, or for students who study in non-government curriculum-based schools.