jueves, 4 de octubre de 2012

Great holidays memory


I've had many great holidays in many different places with friends and family, but if i had to say wich one is very meaningful i would say the scout camp on summer 2005...
We went to Mincha, a very little town in the north, i think in the 4th region, i wouldn't even know how to get there now..., we got there in a bus and we left in a bus, and usually we didn´t pay much attention on the road...
It was so hot, and so dry.., and we didn´t make the camp right beside the town, so we had to walk like 3 kms every two or three days to buy food, and get drinkable water. We stayed there for about 15 days, just doing games, making some fun activities, singing, talking, or just hanging around..
We were so tired and starving! at the final days we just wanted to eat proper food, and something sweet (chocolate!, cookies!.. what ever...we even ended up eating the chocolate powder for the milk with our hands like if we had never tried something so good)

In scout we were organized in small groups of around ten girls, with whom you share a tent, cook, and all that kind of stuff, eventhough all the activities were with all the other girls. Around 40 or 45 girls camping in the middle of, almost, nothing..

It sounds awfull, i know..
but it was the best, and is so meaningful to me because it wasn´t about an incredible place, it wasn´t about doing crazy and amazing things.., it was just about beeing young girls, with nothing to worry about but that moment. And at the same time, we knew we were getting older, we knew there weren´t going to be many more camps like that one, or the many ones we had before that one, me and my friends there we were already 15 years old, and for the next long summer camp we would be 16...and the thing is, when you grow up you end up losing the naive and childish you , whatever you like it or not

Well, that´s all.. As it´s obviuos, i just to be scout, i spent almost every single saturday afternoon in a park just "beeing a scout", i'm not anymore, but, eventhough many people find it silly, they don´t know anything about it, for me it was such a great an amazing experience i will always remember, and that's why that holiday was so important, because it resumed it all.., basically, now i remember it as an extract  of everything that was important at that moment.., like a time machine that gets me to what beeing a young girl or a "teenager" was

2 comentarios:

  1. I was scout too when I was 14 or 15... I used to like it on the afternoons, doing fun activities and all the stuff, but at summer camp I had an awful time, I realized that I really didn't like that much the outdoor style, cooking, eating and sleeping in the dirt and showering in the river,so after a week I left and never came back to my scout group ): that's my sad story haha

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  2. I feel bad for thinking that the scouts were just kids screaming at eight o'clock on Saturday morning outside my house. Learn to trust each other and live together under conditions that are not entirely comfortable, not as one would like, sounds pretty hard, but as you say, also very rewarding

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