Hello Friends/ pageviewers/ followers/ aliens (?),
This past weekend, students and leaders from my University College went on a lovely camp/ retreat weekend! I had an absolute blast, but I am now aching and sick from all the activities!!!! Totally Worth It!!!! I had an amazing time and got to chill with lots of super great people! There is so much to say that I really don't know where to start! I suppose I will start with an overview, then dig deeper into my favorite parts, I'll try not to miss anything!
We arrived Friday evening and had a short kick off night, which included two-minute-movies and some group chill time, then we had a fire that night. It was an early morning on Saturday as we had scheduled breakfast time at 8:30. Once breakfast was over, the real fun began, we had some free time to partake in various activities around the camp, which included human foosball, zip lining, rock wall climbing, archery, swimming in the pool, as well as various other options. We enjoyed a group lunch then had an option to do waterfront time which meant we could go canoeing, kayaking, paddling boating or enjoy a guided boat ride. Everybody enjoyed some dinner then we had a wide game called mission impossible!!!! Another campfire followed all of this and then we went back to our cabins to sleep before the second early morning rise-and-shine! Sunday was a very long day, we enjoyed worship and a mini service, broke up into small groups, then had lunch, a super fun photo scavenger hunt, and about three hours of chill time in which almost everybody was sleeping after such an exhausting weekend! We waited longer than expected for the buses and then were finally on our way back home!!!! All in all it was a really fun, hyper, active, exhausting weekend!
Ok, now the portion you've all been waiting for...... MY FAVORITE PARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO!!!! THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!! ok well maybe you're not that excited, but you should be!
I really enjoyed chillin with my new pal, Crazy J, and Timid, making Lions Den participate (he eventually started to enjoy his weekend), zip lining, meeting lots of new people, canoeing with Timid, the creative photo scavenger hunt and somehow winding up in two groups (that were randomly selected) with Smiles!!!
Crazy J and I both live on the same floor in the tower at our school, but we had never really talked much before, we got to bond a lot over the weekend and I'm so thankful because now I have another really good friend who I can actually tell things to! She's really nice, funny, crazy, and just an overall a really chill person to talk to. We hung out all weekend and just had some really awesome times! We also hung out with Timid a lot, but she actually wound up finding some new friends, so I'm really happy for her.
Ok, next on my list is making Lions Den participate. It started out by little things like getting to join in a game of human foosball (which is a super fun game that I wound up playing for like a whole hour!!!!) and then he just gradually started getting more involved in other activities, making new friends and started really enjoying himself, so I got to say "I told you so" which was completely wonderful! haha.
I have always enjoyed zip lining, so I was super happy that this camp had one set up, Crazy J and I each went down and really enjoyed it! I also got to have a bunch of random conversations with my classmates, which I was really happy about because it made me feel like I kinda actually fit in this community and that I'm gunna have a really great year! Timid and I enjoyed the canoeing for a little while, she laughed almost the entire time because I kept overpowering her and steering the canoe in different directions to the point where she just stopped paddling and I steered us back to the dock, I must say, I was feeling pretty strong. haha.
For the creative photo scavenger hunt we were randomly counted off into 15 different groups and each group was given a disposable camera and a list of pictures they had to take! I really had a lot of fun doing this because our group really thought out all the different pictures and had a lot of fun getting to know each other and capturing all the silly moments. This is one of the groups that Smiles and I both wound up in, I've obviously learned to kinda control the crazy heart rate and breathing issues, in order to chill with him. :P We did lots of crazy fun pictures, including one where Smiles had to jump into the pool multiple times while catching a Frisbee, it was really funny and he was a really good sport about it. :)
The other group we were randomly put into together was two-minute-movies. In this game your group was given twenty minutes to plan a two minute re-enactment of a movie that was assigned to you, our group got Anchorman. It was pretty funny and I think everyone really enjoyed it, I know I did. :)
But, I think that's all for now. Thanks for reading!
Lots of Love,
University Girl
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