Kintos 2010

Today starts the winter festival of my village, Aiguafreda (Vallès Oriental). It's known such as “Kint@s”. It's a party organized by some teenagers of the village. This year is time for the teenagers who were born in 1992, what means they are 18 years.

The programme of the party is on the website of Aiguafreda, on Facebook account Kintos 2010 and on a magazine.

Teenagers are the ones in charge: they have to organize all the activities for the children, for the teenagers, the adults... Some of the activities for the children are for example: giants, Olympic games, plays... for the teenager they organize a party on Monday and Tuesday.

Though it's call “Quintos”, people write: kint@s, because, let’s say, it’s a way of including boys and girls in just one word. 

Some years ago teenagers used to go to “la mili”, but nowadays they don't and to celebrate it they hold this party. I think it’s important to keep this tradition, because it brings them together and they learn to work as a whole.

The following year is the 1993 generation turn. That means that it's my turn, I will find mates which I have lost the contact with. When I was a child I went to “La montanya”, the school that is in Aiguafreda so I went with all the people from Aiguafreda. With 6 years I changed to another school, that’s called “Sagrats Cors” from Centelles, there I had to start again and, unluckily, I lost some friends from Aiguafreda's school. However, I could see them sometimes when I did ballet, played tennis, went to an English academy in Aiguafreda, etc.

I’ve always lived in the same village. I’m really looking forward to helping organizing the next year party, because I will do it with some lifelong friends, like Júlia, Berta, Cris...

I still have to wait one more year, but this doesn't stop me to go there and enjoy!