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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 7 Hanadi Episode 1: At camp This is my first time at a summer camp. I remember having heard that there are groups that organize similar activities in Morocco, but I think there are not as many as there are here, and they are not as popular. I have been living in Spain for two years now, but I have never been to a summer camp before. During the first year I was here, I did not know anyone and I could not speak the language very well. In my second year, I did not dare go. But this year…this year Elena and Silvia (my best friends in the neighborhood) are going and they persuaded me to go with them. I immediately liked the place. It is really beautiful. There is a river nearby, and the people in the village seem very nice. Judging from appearances, I am sure they really are. But the things I like best are the rolling mountains we can see from the tents. They cannot be too far away, because on the second day, I saw the older kids (mostly Ecuadorians) march off with an instructor they call Chema. They said they were going to walk to the mountains and that they would be back on the last day of camp. Before I got here, I thought that the most important thing about coming here was that I was coming with my friends, but now that I’m here, I think it would have been worth it even if they had not come. Can places be more important to me than my friends? I catch myself wondering this when I hear Jose and Silvia, who have walked up to me without me noticing. “I’m green with envy, imagine being