Have you ever though why do we have “The Spirit”?
Hi, I'm Tânia (from portuguese team) and I want to share my reflection with you. Why do we have “The Spirit”?
It happened bit by bit, each difficulty we got through more united we were, creating, in this way, our spirit, the One-O-Nine Spirit, “The Spirit”.During those days of long walk, every time someone helped putting the rucksack on another’s back, every time that someone gave water to another person, every time someone said “give me that tent, I’ll carry it”, every time someone helped another to get up, and every time someone started shouting or singing or even dancing and contaminate everybody with his happiness, our spirit was becoming more and more strong.
The Portuguese team made a fight, so everything was translated from Italian to English, so we could understand and be part of it. During this fight, the Croatian, and later, the Italian guys joined and support us, witch made us fell more close to you.
Our route leader had some decisions that we didn’t agree and that made us get united to contest it. This was really clear in the last night of the route when, together, we shout Gatto Polare’s and Laganini’s shouts.
For being part of ISIDORA 6, a camp far away from everything and everyone; each time we wanted to go to the Central area, we went in route, and that made us work as one team, instead of three (sometimes four?) different teams.
Do you remember the rain in Florence?...of course you do :P ; how could we forget??! Well, I didn’t really liked to be under the rain for something like three or more hours. But now I’m glad for having experienced that, ‘cause that experience made us even stronger. I remember our new “route leader” saying that we had been the last ones arriving to Florence, so we had to be the last ones catching the bus. And there we were, under the rain… when he said “One-O-Nine!! let’s make a circle”; the One-O-Nine Spirit popped up, and for a moment, between the shouts, the dances and the songs, I forgot the rain and wormed myself.
There’s even something interesting that I noticed - the evolution at mealtime. At the first meals we where all divided by associations. As the time passed, that division stopped being so clear, and in the last dinner, I still remember, we where all mixed up, as if we where only one family.Finally, I thank God for all these difficulties, ‘cause those united us even more, and those made us grow up as scouts, man, and world citizens… For those difficulties that incited us “daring to sharing”.I know that many of you (probably more than half of the route) don’t believe in God (to respect you, I’m writing these lines, like a “translation”). If I didn’t believe in God, I would say we where lucky to found so many difficulties in this unforgettable camp.For me, there’s no doubt: we have The Spirit. So, the question, now, is “will we keep The Spirit??”The difficulty we have to go through now, is the distance.If we keep acting as we did in the camp: staying together, united, and sharing in this way, we’ll get through it.So… PLEASE, for you, for me, for us, and most important – for One-O-Nine => “DARE TO SHARE”
Veronica, Ylenia, Mirko, Daniele, Salvo, Egle, Stefano, Jessica.
