AN UNFORGETTABLE SUMMER

This history starts the day before we had finished the school the 20th of June. It was a hot day, as the rest, so I decided to hang out with my friends at the swimming pool. It was very comfortable to swim and play with my mates after we have finished the exams. But I knew that it would finish very fast. The next week I had to go to work at my father refuge at the mountain to get some extra money so I enjoy the long time that I have and, maybe, it was the most intensive week that I’ve lived. I didn’t stopped going to the river, to my friend houses, to secret places of the village, to abandoned houses, etc.

But it was unavoidable, I went to the refuge. Actually I love the place is very beautiful, pure, relaxing, with the best landscapes and I love go for a walk around the place but is located at 2240 meters, and this is the reason because you can’t return to the village easily.

I started with the routine: wake up early, serve the breakfast, do the washing up, clean the refuge and make the beds only at the morning later, usually, I took a break which I used for improve my “Treball de recerca”, going for a walk, or watch a film with my brother and dinner. Around 16:00 I started doing the dinner and attending the people who came, especially English foreigners, service the dinner and go out to see the beautiful night sky. I have this custom because, when I was little my father used to explain me all about the galaxies and stars and he create me a love for the universe. And nowadays I can spend hours and hours just watching the night sky on 2240 where there are any artificial light, any contamination, only with the sound of the nature.

I invited some days my friends to come and have fun and play with the remaining of the surroundings and make excursions I helped me a lot because I was very bored but they came for one week and the boredom returned to continue with me.

Earlier the August I had 1 week of free days and I came back to the village, because it was the party of my town and I could met with my friends.

When it was finished I returned to the refuge thinking that it would be the like always. But the same day that I arrived a group of teenagers who more or less had my age and they were going to be 2 weeks.

They slept out of the refuge so they saw me when I went to watch the stars and I met the group. They were very funny and sociable, but, especially one girl was different than the rest and attractive. Her name was Maria and she shared with me the same hobby of watching stars and she asked me to go alone with her the next night to gaze the night sky. I accepted.

We met the next night and all the rest. Maria told me that they came from Barcelona and there, there are a lot of pollution which don’t help to see and also the light contamination. She told me also about her, she plays the guitar, love reading comics, she was doing batxillerat like me and other stuffs. I also told her what I like.

Two days before of the farewell it appeared full moon and it was a magic night. We didn’t need words it was like if we knew what was going to do the other. Just with the sound of the river and crickets, below the moon, we kissed one, two, three, four… I don’t know how many times but it was a magic moment that we join with the nature.

And even the rest of the summer it was the same than the rest, this 2 weeks were for me the reason that this holidays are unforgettable