🛳️ On Cruise with the SCHOOL (2013-2014) 📖

It is not easy to find the right words to describe the experience of the baccalaureate cruise, also because in my case it was doubly special: I was "lucky" enough to participate in two cruises, one with my former classmates after failing in fourth grade, and the other the following year, with my new fifth grade classmates.

Two different groups, two different atmospheres, but the same enthusiasm of those who are about to say goodbye to school and look out for the first time on the university or work future, even if in my case the first cruise was a meager consolation after the failure.

Those two cruises were the first real experiences on board a ship, and when I think about it today it makes me smile when I remember how I lived them in a completely different way compared to how I face a cruise now.

I attended a high school almost entirely for men, and so we found ourselves, in the winter (March-April) on a ship populated almost exclusively by boys, with very few girls and we could not go to the casino or drink alcohol.

Yet, precisely this simplicity, this lack of "distractions" and high expectations, has made everything even more genuine.

I remember perfectly how it only needed little to have fun: it was enough to be together, invent games in the corridors, laugh for hours, tell each other secrets and live every moment as if it were unrepeatable.

There were also unforgettable moments, like that evening when the sea was particularly rough: while almost everyone preferred to stay in the cabin, transforming the ship into a kind of ghost ship, I and a few others were still around enjoying the surreal atmosphere.

One of my classmates felt sick because of the seasillness, but that too became a story to tell for years.

And then there are those little "goods" that make every trip memorable like the mysterious disappearance of a friend of my money: he had left his wallet in the safe, sure that no one could touch it, yet at a certain point he found himself almost out of money.

A thousand hypotheses were unleashed: some said that he had spent them without realizing it, others that it had been a theft, but the safe was closed and no suspicious access had been recorded, in the end the truth never came out.

Thinking back today to those cruises I realize how much the real wealth of those days was precisely the company and carefreeness: it was enough to be together to feel invincible, without thoughts or anxieties for the future, precisely for this reason those experiences remain among the most beautiful and authentic of my life.

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