Just as our first session of tenth grade came to an end, there was a new cause of excitement for us in the coming days. Our school was organizing a five-day summer spiritual camp for us within the campus, as is done annually for tenth-grade students. It was being held in the hopes of arousing feelings of calm, inner peace and devotion from the soul. I had never been away from home for such a long duration of time and thus, experienced a blend of exhilaration, excitement, and fear preceding the night of the 21 st of April, the day which marked the commencement of the camp. I, along with my friends arrived with bags packed and vigour replenished on the first morning. We discovered that our comfortable beds back at home had been replaced with mattresses on the floor; and our spacious bathrooms with the school washrooms! Looking at each other, we sighed as realization struck. All of us were in this together for the long haul. We were ten students to a room; which automatically tra...