Free post: Freshman retreat (:

Our retreat with the entire freshman class was held on the 25th of October. Now I'm not sure if it's just me or has the entire month of October been absolutely hectic. Consisting of an entire new quarter, big assignments, homecoming and halloween, and even more. It was nice to take a break and go on a retreat with my class. Unlike all the others upper school grades the freshman had to do service work, of course. We're freshman duh we're going to get the not fun activities. We all arrived at school by 7:45 then packed up on the bus. There were only two buses with our packed grade of about 110 students. Every seat basically had to fit three people WHICH it was only made for two. Imagine how uncomfortable that is, especially in the morning! By eight o'clock we were off to the park out in Baker, Louisiana, which isn't that far away. When we arrived my first thoughts were, well this park looks waaay too nice to need some more service work. Turns out they had a lot of work and help to get done! We split off into advisories and the group of advisories I was in was awesome. Our first activity was canoeing in the lake and picking up trash. Of course I was going to like this even if we had to pick up trash because canoeing is the bomb . com of course. My canoe had Katie and Kris in it, I don't think I laughed so hard in a canoe before. It was so pretty out there as well!! So many big beautiful trees and flowers and just everything. Next activity we went to was clearing the trail, or at least the plants that were hanging over the trail. I have never been pricked by so many thorns before, that was a pain. Then we went along the beautiful path to the next activity. Which was actually clearing a trail. That was hilarious! About seven of us went to lunch earlier too, whoops. Then after a good pizza and playground lunch we headed to the last activity. The last activity was just a discussion on being aware of the environment and how to take care of it. I was surprised how long some things take to decompose! After that we all once again packed onto the crowded bus and headed back to school. We arrived back at school at 2:50 and we were dismissed, which was awesome! Honestly, not having to wear that dreaded school uniform for the past 3 fridays is awesome. In conclusion I did actually like working for an entire day with service work and learning. I know in a way it brought my advisory and others closer. I hope we have class retreats more often or trips, they bring us into a family like we should be.