This trip to Europe has totally blown my mind! I’m quite new to the scouts and this has been my first adventure into what my Dad calls "The Great Outdoors.” We’re presently in Spain, on the first half of an exchange with a group of European scouts, and everything we’ve done since arriving has been amazing. We’ve visited Seville and Granada and seen flamenco dancers, flamingoes in the wild and crazy dudes living in actual caves. We’ve mostly stayed in youth hostels, which surprised me to begin with because I imagined Scouting was all about sleeping in tents in the wild. The biggest issue with staying in hostels is sharing rooms. Because I’m the new boy, I was always the one who ended up having to share with a Scoutmaster—not something on my bucket list. That was what I thought, at least, until I met Scoutmaster Snow. He… let’s just say, he ended up teaching me considerably more than just the basics of Scouting.