My graduation trip: Camping in Tigre, Buenos Aires!
Camping on a Tiger Island in my last school year
In 2012, my last year of school, was my graduation trip which was out of the traditional. Usually, the graduation trip is to more touristy places with more entertainment such as discos, amusement parks, etc... But the one I attended was one that was planned sporadically: a camping trip to an island in Tigre, Buenos Aires.
I remember that this trip was planned by a Physical Education teacher, he wanted to do something economical so that all of us could attend. My classmates had already organized another trip to the province of Cordoba, but for most of us it was expensive and not many could attend, so a second option was organized so that no one would be excluded.
In that year, my mom happened to get a job, it was temporary, but it was enough to pay for the trip and everything I needed for a camp, it was the first time I would live an experience like that.
The trip was 3 days and 2 nights, we had to cross the river by boat to get to the island where our camp would be. At first I wasn't going to go because I couldn't afford it either, so the job my mom got came like a godsend and I had everything ready to embark.
I took my personal belongings, and a classmate took the tent where we would sleep 4 people (including me). I was excited to be able to make this short trip, but I enjoyed it especially for the scenery that was presented there.
There were not many attractions to visit, but the idea was not that, but to live the experience of camping and enjoying nature for a while. Of course we did some activities like sports, water games with buckets, walking around the island, going into the forest, although this part I was afraid of getting lost and I didn't go.
The first activity was playing sports, I remember it was very hot and I got a slight heat stroke. I had to stop playing and take a cold shower to recover. A teacher who was not even from my class scolded me for that and I explained that I felt bad, little empathy on her part.
Once recovered, I went out with my group to tour the site. We walked along the shores of the island, it was all nature. Green everywhere and some huts hidden in the middle of the trees. We walked around and it was a beautiful place, I was fascinated!
There were food sectors, but we had to take turns preparing food for the rest of the campers. At that time I didn't know how to cook, luckily when it was my turn I only had to prepare a pionono, although I broke it because I didn't know how to make a simple pionono either. What a shame!
The first day I had a great time, being in contact with nature was the best part of the trip, but from the second day on, I started to feel sick. I was not used to being out of my house and even less in a tent, so I did not sleep during the whole trip and I caught a cold. On the other hand, the last night the river had risen and the water reached the tents, but luckily we didn't drown.
These mishaps happened, but the rest was great. There were more games that I did not participate in because I wanted to be alone contemplating the river at night or watching the stars, I was never sociable.
Today, I no longer talk to or have any kind of contact with any of the people I went with. It doesn't bother me because after a few years I understood that they were not true friendships, the only thing I wanted back then, was to enjoy a place different from the four walls in which I was always locked up, and I still am.
The last night, after the river went down, preparations began to say goodbye to the site with a bonfire. There we sang, danced, the teachers dressed up in a ballerina tutu to make us laugh. (I don't have pictures because it was too dark and they couldn't be seen).
I still remember the song from that campfire, I leave it below:
I went to see the Mary,
and the Mary taught me
To dance the Chipi-Chipi
Dance the Chipi-Chipi!
If the person who was singing the song stopped to dance the Chipi-Chipi in front of you, you had to start dancing, singing and doing the same, choosing the next victim. On the way back to our homes, in the bus, they kept singing that song, to distract us because the bus I was on got stranded in the middle of the road for a while.
And this was my graduation trip, simple and with some bad moments, but what was really worth it was the experience of camping in nature away from the noise of the city. I loved the place and would go again.
Thanks for your visit!
📷 Photos taken by me with my digital camera
✏️ Text written by me and translated with DeeplTranslate free version
What a beautiful place Yami! And what a beautiful memory! You are beautiful, beautiful! A beautiful place to enjoy that important event in life. I'm so glad you kept all those pictures. Fantastic!😍
With some mishaps but I enjoyed on my own and in my own way haha I was never sociable 😂
Thank you beautiful ❤️
My peer in everything!❤️
how did you miss going to the forest for fear of getting lost you are a buhito you are from the forest, I have never camped is one of the things I have wanted since I was a child and I have never done, when I read luckily we did not drown I said thank God then I thought well obviously he is doing post and playing violin of course he did not drown hahahaha those teachers put their soul and how fortunate that your mother gave you for that beautiful experience and it was not easy the farewell I had no farewell or a hamburger so it was on the high side, the bonfire what could have been more perfect than that, well maybe the company, maybe not so many people, just me and buhito and kiss here and kiss there uju that would have been spectacular, nice pictures, you have always been tender and you always will be.
At that time I wasn't an owl yet haha I hadn't grown my feathers yet 😂
Maybe I drowned that night and who writes now is the ghost of a sexy and demonic owl hahahaha hopefully you can go camping someday, it's a nice experience ❤️
The campfire, Buhito and you, no one but the sound of crickets and the wind, a love song, what could be better? 🦉 ❤️ hehe
Let buhito be in a ball and that's it!
good that your mother was able to pay with her temporary job the trip buhito and you were able to enjoy this experience that is lovely the house on the island is spectacular.
Yes, it was pure coincidence that just as the trip was approaching, my mom got a job and was able to pay for the trip and everything I needed, otherwise I wouldn't have gone haha
The little houses there were divine ❤️
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Thank you ❤️
Cuando salí de la preparatoria no tuvimos viajes ni fiesta, me hubiese gustado vivir esta experiencia.
Es un lindo lugar @elbuhito, lo disfrutaste y era la idea, qué malo que te sintieras mal, pero así sucede cuando no estamos acostumbrados.
Gracias por llevarnos a pasear en tus recuerdos.
When I got out of high school we didn't have trips or parties, I would have liked to live this experience.
It is a nice place @elbuhito You enjoyed it and that was the idea, too bad you felt bad, but that's the way it goes when we are not used to it.
Thanks for taking us for a ride in your memories.
Casi no la tengo, no me alcanzaba el presupuesto, asi que un profesor opto por una opcion economica para que todos la tuvieramos, cosa que tampoco iba a ir porque no lo podia costear jaja suerte que mi mama empezo a trabajar y pudo pagarmelo, asi que de esa forma pude tener el viaje ❤️
Me enferme, pero no me importo, segui disfrutando igual jaja
Gracias por tu apoyo, saluditos 🦉
How strange were the lyrics of that song hahahahaha... Thanks for sharing once again on #tbt Thursdays. I have never had a camping experience myself, I used to find it exciting, but nowadays I don't know if I would dare. These people played their part in your life back then and I'm glad you remember that time so fondly. How nice that you have preserved all these photos with such good quality, they were meant to be shared on Throwback Thursday in 2024 hehe. It's a pleasure to read you feathered friend!.
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I don't know who invented it, but when I heard it, I was WTF hahaha and the dance, if you had seen it 🤣 OMG.
I had them saved in my camera, and it was time to share them, they were waiting for Hive's TBT hehe I hope someday you can go camping, even though I got sick, I had a great time anyway 😂
Thanks a lot my friend, a pleasure to share these moments here ❤️
Very nice place you chose. It is always nice to go camping. It is a new experience. I saw a bonfire in the photo. Bonfires are nice and around them young people sing, dance and have fun. In my youth I really liked those campgrounds and sleeping in the cabins, it was very exciting.
Nice memory of your graduation my friend. Thanks for sharing your graduation party. Happy weekend 😊🥳🥰🤗.
The bonfire was the farewell, there were games, songs, dances, costumes, we were enjoying it to the fullest hehe it was my first and only camping experience, hopefully someday it will be repeated.
Thanks for your kind visit, greetings and have a nice weekend 😍🦉
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Hola, mi niña!🥰
La verdad es que ese lugar es tremendamente hermoso. Yo estoy fascinada viendo todas las fotos. Me imagino que estar allí debe ser casi mágico con tanto espacio verde. 🌿
Me encanta que a pesar de que te enfermaste y se presentaron otras situaciones como la crecida del río, le hayas casado el lado bueno a este viaje como fue la experiencia de haber estado tan cerca de la naturaleza y que hayas contemplado el cielo entrellado. Diría que esos pequeños momentos fueron para tí inolvidables.
Mi querida Yami, gracias por compartir esta experiencia y por mostrarte tan genuina. ❤️🥰
Te mando un abrazo!🤗
Hola bella Zu ❤️
Es bellisimo el sitio, todo verde, todo naturaleza, me recorri todo menos el interior del bosque jaja pero lo demas, se podia respirar la naturaleza 😍
Apenas llegue a mi casa, me fui a dormir, que mal me sentia jajaja mi cuerpo no estaba acostumbrado a eso, pero lo disfrute igual, no deje que mis malestares arruinaran mi momento de paz con la naturaleza jeje sin duda fueron inolvidables.
Muchas gracias mi hermosa Zu por leer y dejar tu granito de arena con tus encantadores comentarios ❤️
Saluditos 🦉
How nice that you were able to go on the graduation trip. Sometimes you think it's better to keep the money, but the truth is that those experiences are priceless.
And yes, it is difficult to keep friendships from that stage, but you keep everything you have lived and learned from them, so it is not a total loss.
At that time, the trip was worth $300, today I see that number and it's nothing haha but at that time it was. Anyway that money would no longer exist today, my mom wanted to invest it so that I could enjoy an experience that will never be repeated, maybe I will go again, but not as a graduation trip, so it was worth it ❤️ The fact that I got sick was not foreseen 😂
Thanks for your visit, to think that at that time Buhito didn't exist hahahaha
Hello friend, how beautiful this memory is and it is fascinating that they have gotten together and done something different once that great stage was over, where that place looks incredible and it is something that is not done every day, therefore that adventure and experience was worth it. the sorrow. When you leave home it is a new thing and you think about many things, without a doubt it was a unique opportunity and I could not have left it, since you managed to share and today have the memory. I hope you can meet those people and remember those moments again.
Greetings my friend,
It was worth it, the sadness, getting sick, the climb up the river hahaha I think that made it more adventurous 😂
The place was beautiful, full of green, peace, it was a different experience to close that stage of life and the truth is that I would love to go there again.
There were cabins to sleep, but the idea was to have the experience of doing it in tents, my body did not resist much to say but it doesn't matter haha I still had a great time ❤️
Thanks for your visit 🦉
¡Que lindo lugar! Me gustó muchísimo Se ve muy apacible y las construcciones me recuerdas a esas casitas bávaras de Alemania.