Retreat Blog 2022

          Hey Leadership 2022 and beyond 😂. I say that because I read a chaperones blog and I don’t know that the chaperones knew we would be able to read their blogs. So I’m prepared, I think. So if you didn’t know I went to retreat and I’m so so thankful to the people who put it together to the people who allowed us to use the house. To think that we have nothing to do with Kamehameha Schools and we are still able to be there and enjoy the house. Before we got in the bus we had to give up our phones, so the bus ride was full of scenic views, conversations, and games. Once we got to the house we had to unload and put away(this will come back up again). We were split into our rooms by periods(this will come up again) and told the rules. We had Teri burger and chips for lunch(this will come up again). And just laughed all the time😁. Ok, ok, I was the one laughing all the time. In my defense Janzen was laughing too, lol🤣.  We had breakout sessions and learned the dance for orientation and found out the theme for orientation. Yep, we’re doing Shrek. When I thought I got out of doing it for the drama production, I’m here being a mirror LOL 😂. Oh but I will be the best mirror there will ever be for an orientation, no doubt about it 😊. But I might not have the most prefered role but I will do all I can to make it cute, because I’m the woman in the mirror. Pun intended. The next couple of days have been the similar but the girls ended up in the same room talking and getting scared from alumni lol. I saved a volleyball for Janzen because I served it into the water on accident so when Mr. Ing  said some play volleyball and then you have volleyball players I fall under the play volleyball. People like Janzen and Eliscia are volleyball players lol. We also had tons of planning. Lastly, we had amazing food. Mr. Ing can cook. Some days I ate too much. The last day I couldn’t even eat breakfast. But it was so delicious. He could be lunch man and a teacher. He literally had all the food groups in his meals lol.

          

          My highlight would be being there in general but for more details I really enjoyed laughing, playing cards, and eating. I learned how to play speed and I actually am not horrible, mostly because it is simple rules. I enjoyed laughing and talking. I promise every hour I laughed about 20 times. And then if other people laughing I will start to laugh. It really doesn’t matter who is laughing I will literally keep on laughing 🤦🏽‍♀️. Then Ari taught me something I will literally use all year. I have to make two L’s by both sides of my mouth and open my mouth then you have LOL 😂. My lowlight would be my magic notes. It wasn’t the ones I got it was some of the ones I gave. I gave the alumni magic notes but it wasn’t all that meaningful. Compared to the ones I received I did horrible. I should have dug deeper for some of them, I really should have took Ms. deGuzman words of advice more seriously and gotten to get to know them better. But you live and learn. A highlight/lowlight was the chopped. The chopped was fun but I messed up so bad. So new thing, you can’t put something warm in a cooler bag and expect it to be cold 😀. Ok so we had cool whip for my groups parfaits and I put it in the cooler bag. Keep in mind Reese had like not  to warm cool whip but Janzen’s started to get kind of warm. Later into the day I thought about it out of nowhere. I was asked if I could put the cool whip into the fridge 🤦🏽‍♀️. We checked it and it was yellow soup that stink🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️. So we had it in the fridge and eventually in the freezer. We ended up throwing it away because it was chunky. But Eliscia was kind and let us use her twinkies. I don’t know how but we ended up winning chopped 😆.

          A lesson I learned is don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Sometimes when you look at the cover of a person sometimes our human nature likes to judge, but when you read their life book you want to take back all the judgement. Through this retreat I started to learn that there is more to a person than what they put out. So I will make sure that when I meet someone I will save what I think about the person until I read the book. 

      

        The house to me symbolizes a safe space. When I go to my house it always feels safe because the people who will always have my back are there. And at school if you were to be in A101, in a peaceful place, you can literally walk out the door and things be chaotic. But at the house, it is only leadership so the peace, safeness, and happiness can’t be taken by others. 

        

        I think that I will definitely will begin to plan with the big picture in mind. When we were planning the spirit week I thought my group had some pretty good ideas then we got “ripped” into (it was more of ripped, shredded, and burned lol). But I know Ms. deGuzman only did it in love and to help us not get ripped into from people who are just doing it to criticize us. In conclusion I think that I will be able to plan out things and think about the possibilities just like Ms.deGuzman.🙂