In-class assignment "The Things We Carried"

            We walked and walked. We kept walking. Up, down, over and across we walked to get to the top. We all had our essentials: two change of clothes, plate, bowl, cup, fork and spoon. We had our towels and our sleeping bags. We had to keep walking nobody could be left behind. Even when our legs could barely move and the sun was scorching our skin, we had to keep walking. We even had to keep walking past the fear of getting lost and the terrors that use to hide under our beds at night. We carried our water, if you ran out you had to wait for the river to get more. We carried our lunch each day. Nothing special, can tuna, crackers, granola bar and a lukewarm juice box. We had to eat. No but’s, if’s or wont’s. Can’t start walking until you finish eating and the later you start the later you arrive to camp. And if it got too dark we’d carry the mosquitos as well. We couldn’t shower, if we wanted to clean ourselves we had to bathe in the river. When the temperature dropped that high up a mountain it really drops. The water cause physical pain but the idea of sleeping after sweating so much hurt even more. I wasn’t even supposed to go in the first place.