AN EXPERIENCE THAT MARKED MY LIFE One year ago, I accomplished my degree on leisure monitor. I was really lucky because straight away I was given the chance to work as a camp leader. That had been my first approach to the workers world.That experience indeed marked my life and made me grow up professionally and personally. To start with, I was assigned teenagers under my responsibility. At first I thought it would be quite funny, to some extent, I am 20 I am still a teenager. However, I realized that working with 25 adolescents is harder than it seems. In fact, I had to face up to teens´ problems by myself in order to help them.There were some kids whose parents, woefully, abandoned them. They lived in orphans or boarding schools along the year. Those kids had low esteem and identity problems, then I felt the necessity to encourage and being supportive to them, though it was quite hard to an inexperienced girl like me. Apart from that, I had to deal with teen´s unruly behavior sometimes. Their rebellious attitude made me be in tough situations. Occasionally I had the feeling of giving up, but then I thought that I had to bear it and believe in myself to take over those situations. To tell the truth, despite all problems I enjoyed myself at that camp. The reasons why I felt happy for were that I gained experience, I helped people and I learned an important lesson; to overcome life´s challenges believing in myself.