Another bracelet that takes me back to the summer I left
school is this one.
Again it’s part of a set, albeit this time a slightly
smaller set. In that summer, I went to Albufeira, Portugal, with 4 friends from
school. These girls weren’t my best friends but we were certainly friends and
all but 1 I had known for 7 years. As such, it was a slightly daunting holiday
for me. I was flying some 1000 miles and was going to be living in very close
quarters with these girls who I’d never even had a sleepover with! Sure, with
my best friends that would have been fine. We all know that She snores, She can
sleep till gone noon and She still sleeps with a teddy- but these girls I
didn’t know those things about! Any worries were in vain. When your aim is to
have a good time and you’re amongst friends, these little things don’t matter.
Everyone rallies round, pitches in and gets along. That was especially true
when I fell unexpected ill. I was not a pretty sight and despite my insistence
that I’d be fine, I just needed to rest, they rushed me off to the local hospital.
Cue innumerable problems of language barriers, out of date health cards,
foreign currencies and hospital systems. I can’t really remember that night; I
was half asleep and slightly delirious from dehydration but those girls were so
good to me. We each had a bracelet made with our name on it, all in the same
colours, the Portuguese flag. It’s a great reminder of an amazing and eventful
holiday and also of friends I rarely see but still consider myself close to.
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