won she had to come with me during my vacations, but if I lost she had the opportunity to choose what to do. We started paying; the match was equal until the last point. She did an incredible ball that left her as the winner of the match. With this news I had nothing left to do than to wait for her decision. She came up with a very good idea; Mariana said that if I found one nice summer camp she was willing to come with me. That afternoon I started looking for cool places were to spend my summer. It had to be an incredible place so that Mariana was convinced to come with me. I looked and looked unit I found one that looked AMAZING, it was in a little town in the southern coast of France. This little town was called Antibes. Antibes is a little town that it’s location is between Cannes and Nice. These huge cities are a major tourist attraction in Europe. Cote de Sur was known after its big and beautiful beaches; the seawater was one of the most beautiful and crystalline water in all Europe. I started to look pictures in the Internet and I was amazed with the things I found. Asking my dad was another thing that convinced me a lot with this place, he told me that I didn’t have to doubt in going to this wonderful place full of beautiful people and nice places were to see the sunset. After this long conversation I was totally going to this place, every place in Internet I looked said it was amazing. Mariana as well was amazed. At the beginning of June we had everything planned. We were leaving the 30th of June and we had our ticket back the 21st of July. 25th…26th… 27th…28th …29th and finally 30 was here. It was the first time we were traveling over seas by ourselves, my itinerary was: Cartagena- Miami MiamiParis Paris-Nice. I was having breakfast in South America, lunch in the US and dinner last but not least but in Europe. This made me more exited than ever. Arriving to Nice alone, not sure if the camp was picking me up made me a little nervous. All my nerves cleared away when I saw my name in poster held by the staff of the camp. The staff members started to ask me things in French and I had no clue of what they were saying. I arrived to France without knowing ANYTHING in French, they started talking to me and I felt it was Chinese, the only word I knew was “Bonjour”, it was very funny how this people thought I understood everything but really I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. As soon as the bus left me in the campus I was about to die. I arrived alone because Mariana got another flight and it was terrible. I had my bus ride with an Italian 13-yearold girl that was very nice. We were both impressed of how pictures deceive you. On the Internet the campus looked amazing, all the rooms seemed like a five star hotel. Arriving and encountering a totally different place made myself feel frustration. The rooms looked like a jail. We only had a bed and a little window that had a view to the garden that had a horrible smell. There were only three showers and 3 toilets for 50 girls; this made it disgusting after a couple of days. I was about to cry when I suddenly felled asleep. I was dreaming with the wonderful place I saw in the Internet when all of a sudden someone entered my room. It was Mariana!!! My face changed completely. She entered the room with a big smile on her face telling me that everything was going to be all right that I had to relax and calm myself. I was boiling in stress. After a while I decided to calm all my feelings and just go with the flow. That day we had all the afternoon to visit the village and to get to know the place a little better. Our first friend was Carmen; she was a Spanish 16-year-old girl returning from last summer. She said it was going to be the best vacation of our life, that as soon as the other members of the camp arrive it was going to change everything. Mariana and I just looked at each other and smiled feeling a relief from all the stress we were feeling. Walking down the streets feeling the breeze in our skin made ourselves relax and enjoy our long walk. The port where all the boats were left was amazing. The entire village was surrounded by blue !
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