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Thursday and friday was the graduation retreat.
Wednesday night I pack at 11. I wake up a little later than I had planned the next morning, because I keep forgetting tos witch my am-pm backwards to the proper time on my alarm clock. But I still did manage to wake up in time to shower and finish packing and head to 7/11 to grab drinks. 3 Bawls, 2 Sharks, 1 Berry Boo-Koo. So yea anyways..
It was a rpetty long ride to Loon Lake, because of the traffic.. but we eventually got there and started out with some activities, basic stuff, prayer and whatnot. And the topics kept getting deeper and deeper...
I went down to the dock and had a really really really refreshing cold swim in the lake. It was soo much fun. <33
It came to the point where they had Joey and Erin talk infront of the entire class about their lives. And at that moment I think my point of view changed. Probably not in a deep profound way, but I saw Joey, one of my oldest friends, and I saw his age. He looked like a grad, and I couldnt beleive it. It made me proud, and nostalgic. Erin spoke of her mother, and it was hard on everyone. Pretty much everyone was fighting back tears. I'll just leave that at that.
We broke off into our groups and began talking very deeply about ourselves. It was a really awkward start and I just started the group off with my babbling about myself, which kind of gotten a couple people talking. Then eventually Mrs.Peruzalo came in and kind of pushed things along. Id fill in time by talking about my tiny problems to give people time to think. But there was some pretty profound things said in that group. Im sure I feel a tiny bit closer to people in the group, but not by much honestly. I do have a bit more respect for them, and a little less for myself, haha.
It seemed as if everyone benefited as much as we all did from their small group discussions.
We were off to hang out and whatnot before bed. Luckily Our 5 cabins at the bottom of the camp were free to mix it up before our lights out. I spent my time out of the poker room (after finishing off some shrimp crackers and wasabi seaweed) and went to Dave's cabin where it was all about crumping with my clown nose, and freestyling with the guitar. Where we spent a while just going around in a circle dissing each other to the simple melody I was playing. It was hilariously stupid. And eventually it ended up being Aaron playing random old songs that we all knew the words tio (embarassingly) and we'd scream out the lyrics and whatnot. ALot of fun, I think I discovered a new volume and vocal style just being that confident at that time to fully sing. Wow.
So in our cabins we slowly died down, just chilled for a bit, we talked about body building for a bit and me and Aaron did pushups for a brief moment. Then eventually slept, because we were strictly forced to sleep.
Next morning, I ran around, to get warm. And uh.. had breakfast.. had mass. Umm.. Went swimming a bit more. We had these skits throughout the retreat which were usually amazingly funny and accurate on how well the students depicted those moments. Went swimming again, it was jsut me aaron, bryan and Karol. Which was really fun. Mr.Van der Pauw actualyl joined us for a bit. Im starting to like him cause he's so young that he can totally relate and his jokes are still relevant. Like his Forest Gump dive impression. Good guy.
I had forgotten my earrings when I walked out of the shower thursday morning. UGH, i noticed once I got to school. So once I got to the camp, i made a few sets of plugs made from pen ends. which worked amazingly well, especially my red ones, which i had unfortunately lost swimming. But They look somewhat good and I think I might keep wearing them, haha
There were this compliment bags (like Valentines day abgs, where you put the valentines in the bag on the desk of the person) and I hated it, cause I knew what was coming. Shallow meaningless comments for everyone. And surprise surprise. I tried to put my bag high above reach, so at least people who are lazy wouldnt even try. I got angry when I got my notes out of it. It was just as I expected and it made me want to start hitting people.
Honestly I felt alone.. at this retreat. I think Sean felt the same way. But I spent most of my time alone, and It was awkward, because a few people would ask me if i was okay.. and everyone was getting all "one love" on everyone else, and It angered me, because once again it was shallow and I hated it.
But I did enjoy the trip, got to spend at least a bit of time with different people. Great activities, wouldnt really change much about it.
Aight, so a little bit after I get home Sean messages me saying he wants to go skate and hang out. So we skate Moody for a few minutes then hit up Lafarge, then we get the wise idea to get some snacks at sevey and go drive on some gravel roads. We went to the road by pipeline, did a few doughnuts, then we went to the one by minnekhada. It was great, and pretty long, but scary. We hit a really nice drift around one corner, but one car came out of nowhere on us, haha. We spent some time looking around for this one road that has a nice U-turn. Turns out it was halfway paved. We still pulled the U-turn and It was dope! but eventually it went back to gravel then we noticed 2 cars parked up ahead.. we got closer and the area was taped off... it was cop cars.. we got ID'd and questioned and got our info taken down.. so we went back home, haha.
Wednesday night I pack at 11. I wake up a little later than I had planned the next morning, because I keep forgetting tos witch my am-pm backwards to the proper time on my alarm clock. But I still did manage to wake up in time to shower and finish packing and head to 7/11 to grab drinks. 3 Bawls, 2 Sharks, 1 Berry Boo-Koo. So yea anyways..
It was a rpetty long ride to Loon Lake, because of the traffic.. but we eventually got there and started out with some activities, basic stuff, prayer and whatnot. And the topics kept getting deeper and deeper...
I went down to the dock and had a really really really refreshing cold swim in the lake. It was soo much fun. <33
It came to the point where they had Joey and Erin talk infront of the entire class about their lives. And at that moment I think my point of view changed. Probably not in a deep profound way, but I saw Joey, one of my oldest friends, and I saw his age. He looked like a grad, and I couldnt beleive it. It made me proud, and nostalgic. Erin spoke of her mother, and it was hard on everyone. Pretty much everyone was fighting back tears. I'll just leave that at that.
We broke off into our groups and began talking very deeply about ourselves. It was a really awkward start and I just started the group off with my babbling about myself, which kind of gotten a couple people talking. Then eventually Mrs.Peruzalo came in and kind of pushed things along. Id fill in time by talking about my tiny problems to give people time to think. But there was some pretty profound things said in that group. Im sure I feel a tiny bit closer to people in the group, but not by much honestly. I do have a bit more respect for them, and a little less for myself, haha.
It seemed as if everyone benefited as much as we all did from their small group discussions.
We were off to hang out and whatnot before bed. Luckily Our 5 cabins at the bottom of the camp were free to mix it up before our lights out. I spent my time out of the poker room (after finishing off some shrimp crackers and wasabi seaweed) and went to Dave's cabin where it was all about crumping with my clown nose, and freestyling with the guitar. Where we spent a while just going around in a circle dissing each other to the simple melody I was playing. It was hilariously stupid. And eventually it ended up being Aaron playing random old songs that we all knew the words tio (embarassingly) and we'd scream out the lyrics and whatnot. ALot of fun, I think I discovered a new volume and vocal style just being that confident at that time to fully sing. Wow.
So in our cabins we slowly died down, just chilled for a bit, we talked about body building for a bit and me and Aaron did pushups for a brief moment. Then eventually slept, because we were strictly forced to sleep.
Next morning, I ran around, to get warm. And uh.. had breakfast.. had mass. Umm.. Went swimming a bit more. We had these skits throughout the retreat which were usually amazingly funny and accurate on how well the students depicted those moments. Went swimming again, it was jsut me aaron, bryan and Karol. Which was really fun. Mr.Van der Pauw actualyl joined us for a bit. Im starting to like him cause he's so young that he can totally relate and his jokes are still relevant. Like his Forest Gump dive impression. Good guy.
I had forgotten my earrings when I walked out of the shower thursday morning. UGH, i noticed once I got to school. So once I got to the camp, i made a few sets of plugs made from pen ends. which worked amazingly well, especially my red ones, which i had unfortunately lost swimming. But They look somewhat good and I think I might keep wearing them, haha
There were this compliment bags (like Valentines day abgs, where you put the valentines in the bag on the desk of the person) and I hated it, cause I knew what was coming. Shallow meaningless comments for everyone. And surprise surprise. I tried to put my bag high above reach, so at least people who are lazy wouldnt even try. I got angry when I got my notes out of it. It was just as I expected and it made me want to start hitting people.
Honestly I felt alone.. at this retreat. I think Sean felt the same way. But I spent most of my time alone, and It was awkward, because a few people would ask me if i was okay.. and everyone was getting all "one love" on everyone else, and It angered me, because once again it was shallow and I hated it.
But I did enjoy the trip, got to spend at least a bit of time with different people. Great activities, wouldnt really change much about it.
Aight, so a little bit after I get home Sean messages me saying he wants to go skate and hang out. So we skate Moody for a few minutes then hit up Lafarge, then we get the wise idea to get some snacks at sevey and go drive on some gravel roads. We went to the road by pipeline, did a few doughnuts, then we went to the one by minnekhada. It was great, and pretty long, but scary. We hit a really nice drift around one corner, but one car came out of nowhere on us, haha. We spent some time looking around for this one road that has a nice U-turn. Turns out it was halfway paved. We still pulled the U-turn and It was dope! but eventually it went back to gravel then we noticed 2 cars parked up ahead.. we got closer and the area was taped off... it was cop cars.. we got ID'd and questioned and got our info taken down.. so we went back home, haha.