I could smell the chicken in the BBQ roasting. When they gave it to us it smelled like heaven. The smell the fire was terrible, like putting your head on a fire. When it came out, the smell of garlic, burned chicken, and bread was delicious. I was starting to drool for it. I could feel the wetness of my own drool on my lips. I finally got one and when I bit it I felt the crunchiness of the chicken and the wetness of the sauce. I could hear the firewood for the BBQ burning it sounded as if they were wood in half. When I saw the person making the chicken, I wanted to eat it. The chicken sauce started to drip and the sides started burning. It was worth the wait until dinner.                

      Have you ever been so tired in your life? I have, let me tell you a bit about coming back from a hike in Dier Al Qamar.

      There was no water in my bottle, I was thirsty. I couldn’t handle the sun on my forehead; I felt my tears dripping from my eyes. I saw the water, I was looking at the birds and I said, “They are so lucky that they can drink water whenever they want.”

      After two minutes, I heard people saying, “We arrived, we arrived!” I was so happy I got all my energy back, I was about to dance.

In Deir al-Kamar we played this game called “Capture the Flag.” I could smell all the trees and nature’s wonderful smell.  I could see the two people running.  I could taste the saltiness of my sweat. I could feel the flag rub against my face as I sprinted across the room the field. I could hear the cheering when I crossed the LINE (meaning I won!)

“Tsh tsh tsh,” was the sound the tents made when we were flapping them to get rid of the dust. The smell was a strange mixture of dirt and plastic. I felt that the metal we removed from the tents could be stretched and bent. I could almost taste my salty sweat because it was so hot, but the nature we saw was so beautiful, we almost didn’t feel the heat. Deir El Qamar was a great experience.

  On an evening, before the sunset, Coach Wissam told me to organize grade five A and D. I organized the classes and said, “If you are interested in looking at the sunset, meet with Coach Wissam after fifteen minutes.” As time went by, and fifteen minutes passed, we went to sit. The sunset was yellowish and it changed each minute.

       The color was yellowish and it started to turn purple, blue, and orange. I could see the sun and I felt hot. As butterflies, bees, and grasshoppers were passing around us, I heard the bees buzzing around me. Clouds were grey, and grey meant that it was going to rain the second night. The sun was gone, but the light wasn’t gone yet. We started to wonder why the light didn’t go. When the sun was gone, Coach Wissam told us that it’s still sunny in Spain, and sets at nine and a half.

  We had so much fun that I wanted to see the sun set again, because the colors were so nice. After the sunset, we went back to our tents , and had fun.