Retreat 2013

The retreat was one of the best field trips that I've ever been to. We did a lot of firm activities. The house was really nice. Period two and six got the rooms downstairs and period four got the room upstairs. Once we got there, we had to wait a while before we unpacked. Period four had to bring the mattress upstairs for Kevin to sleep on. Me and Aleesha had the bed to sleep on. Each session we did usually involved making posters. We did a review of the first quarter, and planned out 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarter. There were sessions where we made things like the memory jar, mobile hangers, and we made an interview video. The memory jars were so cute! We had our folders taped onto a shelf. We had to write magic notes to every one. Everytime someone said Cheana or Shayna I was like huh?. There were two Cheana's that time. We caught most of the crabs on the beach. When we went back to the beach we could barely find any. For one of the sessions that day, we made memory jars. We went down to the beach to get sand for the jars. I found crabs. Then when we were done, I hot glued the crabs and called it fossils! LOL. Period four had our chopped that night. We made spaghetti. We got 3rd place. That night I couldn't sleep. I was too scared. I woke up at 3 and I woke up Aleesha to stay up with me. We stayed up and watch the sunrise.

The next morning, I heard that period two and six were supposed to come upstairs and draw on our faces. But we were lucky cause Mr.Ing stopped them. Ha!. We were early enough to see whales and turtles. The whales were crossing near the horizon. The turtles heads were popping out of the ocean. That day, we did mobile hangers for one of the sessions. We had our talent show. That night we had s'mores, and we went down to the beach to catch crabs. I hit glued them again. Period two had their chopped. They made taco cups. It wasn't bad. It was okay. That night me and Jez slept upstairs and we talked stories until we fell asleep. I had a good sleep last night. I didn't have a dream. I didn't realize that I fell asleep though. Jahlyssa and Jayde stood in our room watching us sleep! I didn't even know that!. #CreeperStatus. 

The last day, we cleaned up the house and had a relay race. And we took pictures. For breakfast we had pancakes with powdered sugar on it. It was delish (x. #Fabu. Khrizz went down to the beach with me to take pictures. It was really nice. Then we took the group pictures in our collared shirt, regular yellow shirt, and elementary school uniform. Voyagers ftw. After that, we went down to the beach to go play in the sand we spent two hours there. Mr. Ing made us banana lumpia. That was good too. And then we had Melona. I dug a hole and trained two thugs. When I went back to the garage with my thugs, Laila and khrizz wanted to hold it, so I gave it to Laila. She dropped the crab and Khrizz smashed thug #2. We had a funeral for it. Rip to all the crabs that got killed in those last three days (x. Sigh. The bus way back was a long drive. So I grabbed my sleeping bag and me and Jezrae fell asleep. We finally got our phones back on the bus. We all were so quiet cause we had our phones LOL. There wasn't a single peep from us. We were too concentrated on our phone. We finally got back to the boys and girls club and parents were waiting for us. I was last to leave. My sister took forever. I hope I can go to the retreat next year.

Highlight of the retreat was catching crabs. At night all the big crabs came out and we attacked them. They were really fast. Too fast. The little crabs we could catch with our hands. The big crabs we had to use a cup. That was a really fun way to bond. Well not all of us wanted to go catch crabs. It was sill fun hot gluing them though LOL. When we were at the beach there was a crab in Kevin's hair. I was laughing so much. The cup with the crabs smelt so bad! I felt like I was gonna puke. Ew. That was the gross thing about it though. 

Lesson learned was to have fun in your life. But not too much fun. You can have fun as long as you get work done. We were having fun while getting work done at the retreat. Fun always is a turn on. I could never go a day without having fun. If people can't make things fun, time to turn on the potatoe smile switch. I'll make it fun for everyone then. What is like without fun?.