…the mountains and the valleys with their rivers and their woods…
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In my opinion, a beautiful experience
that a youth should have is that of camping in the mountains with other young people. I have been camping several times and I
have always been enthusiastic about it. This is my experience of a day of camping.A typical
day on a campsite begins when the sun rises.
Just get up, the “greatest” boys go down to the country village in a jeep to get the warm bread for breakfast. After breakfast we leave the camp, all together, small
and great, toward the mountains that serve as a background to the campsite,
crossing lawns still soaked with the nighttime dew.
Then we reach the woods;
we walk among the tall trees with the hope to perceive, in the distance,
a roe that goes to drink in the brook. When the sun begins to be high
in the sky, we get to the mountains, leaving behind us woods and lawns
and reaching the cold but fascinating rocky walls of the mountains.
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On the crests of the mountains we often see some chamois
that observe us with curiousity. When the sun is high in the sky, we reach the top
of the mountain. Tired but happy, we sit down there to eat a snack and
rest, observing with admiration the mountains and the valleys with
their rivers and their woods. After a break, we come down to the valley, toward the
campsite, with the satisfaction of having reached that top, having conquered
that mountain. In the late afternoon we reach our campsite; although we are tired, we put on a bathing costume and go to the river to bathe and dive before supper. When dinner is over, we light a beautiful fire in the
middle of the campsite, we sit around it and we play, joke and comment on the events of the day.
It is night by now and the youngest people have gone
to sleep in the tents. We stay awake a little longer, to speak in
a low voice between us under a starry sky crossed every now and then
by some falling stars.
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…in the late afternoon we reach our campsite…
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…we go to the river to bathe and dive before
supper…
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…we light a beautiful fire in the middle of the campsite, we sit around it and we play, joke and comment on the events of the day…
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