On Sunday, too early, he woke up with the sound of the blow the day before. Turning off the alarm clock, turning on Twitter, you notice right away that it won't be a normal day. It's useless for some and hysterical for others. It is best to leave the digital world and relate it to the tangible – not to forget, unfortunately, at home the entourage, of course. The street, however, is colder than a coffee run over. Short atmosphere in the Barcelona district of Gracia, as it corresponds to a Sunday morning of November, yes, even if it is on the shores of the Mediterranean. Empty shores, rather than secessionist ones, look like the post-war stamp.

But today is not a normal Sunday. A normal Sunday never starts before eight o'clock. A typical Sunday does not, after all, bring together as many people as before a school that is not yet open. 300 people in a rapid eye blow. At the front of the line, the question is when it has arrived. 8:30. In twenty-five minutes, hundreds of people were invited to get up early from that football coach. First Goal. If I am not mistaken, and who knows, the Government of Madrid. The doors have been opened, the first people come in, let the elderly, to whom they have some difficulty. Catalans are civilized. Today more in the fruit store kiosko than in the butcher shop. They are therefore beginning to fill the old illusion of voting. Exactly. Happy. Proud. In an action that gives anything but the bobo. Believed. It seems like it's about believing.

We have continued the war as journalists, albeit in times of peace, with the round. The goal is another school in the neighborhood. An equal multitude, maybe a longer row. The Responsible College hurried the attendees. It's 9:20. Someone will not arrive at the end of the day. The Mossos are there, on the sidewalk, but they're not. The same anxiety was reflected in the voters' faces. A third school. The friend votes. The Galician, those that nobody remembers today. It shall include a second card to the ordinary vote. Ez volem a normal country. We do not want a normal people. It is a participatory process, in which it is said that it has the right to say whatever it wants. Now to a school in the district of Sant Gervasi. Controlling high-income people. Total for what: it is true that what most of those who say about Catalan sovereigns is transversal. It is still early to know, but among the photos that will give us the day there are: A hug between Artur Mas and David Fernández. Tighter than Zabalaga's, the day will turn on at some time. The two Catalonia in one.

We've come back to the neighborhood, homeowners have to vote. Three hours after it's opened, the same line in front of the school. The same line, of course, is not the same, as it advances rapidly, leaving the initial impression on hold. An inspector tells us that they get one vote per minute. Fast, at half speed calculated previously, taking into account that there is no census, you have to name the voters – malicious, quiet: a computer system prevents a person from voting more than once. Meanwhile, a woman, out of herself, screamed to see why in her house she was being glued with billboards, when it could be heat. People are quiet, they cannot go to independence, without losing the right time to achieve their goal. Insert the ballot box into the ballot box. They have done so at home, the illusion is one of the great days.

The first official data of the day was collected in the district of Carmel: At 13:00, 1,142,910 people voted. It is true that something less than in this year’s European Parliament elections, but more than in the 2006 Statute elections, for example. Not bad for a butifarrendum. Because we've gone to the Carmel neighborhood to lower the euphoria. The streets here empty, the people most dressed for the occasion – no balloons, stickers, t-shirts for the cause. But they come to schools and they're full of people. There may be less room for voting than usual, and those who are filled with more. Despite that, it is an astonishment that we have felt again here. The misery of prejudice. The talking Spanish, ninety percent. For example, a man dressed in Ferrari luggage, a SEAT parked at the door. An elderly woman has given us one of the keys, if it serves to avoid having a politician who is a thief. In the beautiful Kastillano, it is obvious. Not bad that he hasn’t seen photos of Jordi Pujol, who has also voted, unlike him in a higher neighborhood. In another case.

We ended the day in the same school where we started the day. In the absence of some thirty minutes for the closing of the doors, there are hardly any voters. The day of work is next, remember that here is the advice of getting up early from that football coach, how much is the scoreboard at this time of the match? In the afternoon, the influx of voters has been quite good, now it has dropped completely, a volunteer has confessed to us. You know the second official data of the day. A total of 1,977,531 Catalans voted at 18:00 in the afternoon at the Palau Blaugrana. On their faces are perceived the joy, fatigue and pride of well-done work. However, it is still not possible to go home, because it is now that the second day of volunteering begins: closing schools, counting the vote. And everything, as the famous galego, professional, very professional would say. Even if we take into account that it is not a professional people, but a voluntary person. What a Hara Gracia school gave on November 9, 2014: Bai-Bai 3,695; Bai-Ez 416; Bai-Zuri 45; No 111; Zuri 33; Beste 78. And, above all, the participation of 4,378 neighbors. They applauded.

If you don't know the general and definitive data. They have detailed it in detail and clarity since the next day. At the beginning of the process, let us now put four years, let us limit ourselves two years ago, that what was sceptical of the process remains sceptical on 10 November. With regard to the sceptical process, if it is going to arrive, if it is not going to be taken over by politicians, and take it to a place where it suits them best. Another thing is that the conviction for what people really want is increasing. It is difficult to make other readings, from the participatory process on the independence of Catalonia.

That people aren't just asking for flag change. It does not require domestic thieves to replace outsiders. That the real desire of people is to deepen democracy, to be able to decide on the things that excite them in everyday life. They want a new people, but above the others, different from what they now live. And they certainly do not want to separate from Spain, unless what the Spanish State represents here and now. And who doesn't. Disobedience yes. More democracy, too. But above all, it's an exercise in empowerment on November 9. A power takeover of people about their present and future. What Peret said in that slightly remembered rumba, Catalonia has the power. Or more precisely, the people of Catalonia have the power. And that's no longer back. People are going to want to vote more and more. More and more things. Even though on Sunday someone wanted to take her to nothing. CIU and pp have made public an agreed consultation to maintain their respective agendas. Although the so-called Catalan sovereign process melts, why not today?