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One hundred and twenty-one miles of roads traveled on a bus with four classes of my old school, three hours to arrive at one of the most famous camps of the decade among private schools’ students, a graduation rite of the last year students. That day in October of 2014 I remember of thought about how I wasn’t excited for the travel, I didn’t want to go, with a difficulty to talk with my classmates I spent all the time on the bus talking with the young ones, for my fifteen years old self, those four days would be long. We arrived at the camp around lunch time and I realized that I forgot my cell phone’s charger at home, what I would appreciate in the future. The place at first sight was nothing special, but the air was pure and the nature was present everywhere. The counselors oriented us about the activities’ schedule and most important places. We took around one hour to unpack and had lunch. I had been avoiding getting attached to people, moments and places for a long time until that night when I found a true statement. I didn’t expect to find it there, not with those people or that place, I learned at my first night at the camp that I love spend time looking the stars. The sky there was beautiful and starry in a way that I had never seen before, this gave me peace to enjoy the camp. That night we played a different treasure hunt, we had to complete tasks to gain tips for the correct way to go to find our treasure, but for me the real treasure was the entire activity because at one of the tips’ stops we had to sing a sertanejo music. Coincidentally we sang Amo Noite e Dia of Jorge and Mateus that meant a lot to me and I had never realized that before this moment, I remember that we were screaming every word of the song and this memory stuck in my mind forever, mainly because this instant brought an old memory that made me nostalgic thinking about old friends. Next morning we made a trail to the waterfall and felt more connected with everybody, the trail was beautiful and challenging, I wish I had take some pictures, but everything is on the best place, everything is in my mind. The food there was delicious and the place was magic, we had a good time enjoying every corner of the camp. We played, sang, spoke, made a trail, danced, skating, we built together beautiful memories. Saturday night, our last one, it was a cold night with cold wind and full moon and we made a camp fire with music and talk and there was my favorite moment of the trip, maybe the more emotional one too. Our teacher made a speech about enjoying our friends and how we were lucky for been there that night. I remember the essence of his speech, I remember that I was looking for everybody and seeing them crying like babies. I could feel my own tears wetting my shirt, this was special, and I had never felt that before. The true statement that I didn’t expect to find there is that no matter where you are, no matter who you are with, you have to give a chance for the moment, you have to be open and expect good things, life is made of moments. I never ever regret about went to this trip and forgot my cell phone’s charger, because I connected myself with the moment, the place and the people there, everything is in my mind now, I can remember all the moments and I’m grateful for that. We need to enjoy our lives, we need to build memories for us and the reason is because we need to be attached to people, places and moments, we need this because this makes who we are, this makes how we feel about everything, I learned at this trip that life and experiences that we have in our lives are the best treasures that we can have.