finally rest

Almost every student desires only one thing, rest. After weeks of exhausting school a student is not only physically tired, but also mentally tired. The only pause in this continuous torture is vacation. The tired student would like to completely relax and sleep day after day, but this is impossible.

There are two places were I would like to pass a wonderful time; one is the mountains, a holiday in the bitter cold, while having fun skiing and sledging, or a holiday in the great rain forest. The watchful steps of a small teenager compared to the immensity of the dangerous nature. This is how I want my vacations, read and imagine.

For my vacations I would really like to sleep, read, play, study, ski, and other relaxing things. A holiday should be a time were all the family is united and happy.

I would like to go to the mountains like every year, ski in the bitter cold and feel the speed of you sliding down the mountain. The wonderful feeling of victory when you win a race and you receive your cup, the clapping of the people when you raise it, higher and higher. Then you go back home, tired from the ski day. You try to warm your cold hands, and you feel a terrible pain when the blood starts flowing again through your hands. Another day you can go sledging. You try to control your sledge while your speed increases. You go faster, faster, faster, and then you slam into the wood wall erected for protection. You stand, a bit dizzy, and you jump on the sledge, and you push until you regain the speed.

Another thing I desire is to go to the Amazonian Rain forest. Walking through the trees looking fearfully at every shade, turning in the direction of every noise, thinking a jaguar will attack you every second. You do not feel the tiredness in your feet, after you have walked for miles, but only the strong feeling of curiosity for the wonderful world which surrounds you. The pacific animals are mixed with the hostile and dangerous creatures, what you imagine is only a little ant turns out to be bigger, and less patient, and suddently it bites the finger with which it was being squashed. Wherever you turn you see the green of the plants, also the sky is blocked by the enormous trees. If you come out alive and you don't get lost in the enormous forest, then you will have a wonderful story to tell to your children.

These two voyages are very different, one is cold and full of light, the other is hot and full of shade and dangers. Nothing in them is similar but one thing, they have been both desired by me.