Retreat

I recently went on a retreat with members of school. I feel that retreats are nice because they allow you to get away from everything that is going on ,and best of all it gives us two days off of school. Junior retreat has been infamous around Ignatius for being filled with free time. This, I felt was a little exaggerated mainly because my free time was spent eating in the dining hall. We would do large group activities where all 48 of us where in a large conference room and did team building exercises. The large conference room turned out to be the best part of the retreats, because while in here we did not have to participate and we could just sit back and listen to what other people thought. The part of the retreat that everyone dreaded to go to was the small group rooms. These rooms were probably 10x8 at most and they were filled with rooms of ten kids. Most people were not fans of this time because it meant everyone would have to speak and if they did not there would be a minute or two of straight silence until someone drew up enough courage to speak again. The most interesting part of the retreat was that it was the same house that Kairos members go on. Because of this we learned a few secrets of Kairos, the back of the Mary or Jesus picture in everyones room has been signed by everyone who has stayed in that room on Kairos.