This Weekend...

This weekend was just an amazing time, a beautiful and glorious and wonderful retreat. Those of you who don't know, this weekend, my church went to Redeemer College in Hamilton for our church retreat. The first day, woke up real early on that Saturday and got there around 9 ish. Had time to unpack and register...got the weekend started with the first message of the retreat...everything felt a bit rushed and most people didn't bring their bibles or pens and the group leaders didn't bring their notes, but it was still a really great sermon. Small group time was only half an hour and we spent half of it introducing ourselves and really just settling down, got a few questions going but the main point was to really just get to know one another first, get comfortable with each other and get some sort of discussion going. After lunch we had a time of games, which was a real flop lol, mostly cuz we were supposed to go outside but it was too hot...then we went tot the gym but another group took half the gym so we didn't really have any space, so just had free time. We played ball for a bit, then went outside to have a football game...all of a sudden, it gets broken up for no reason and everyone goes to play soccer...soo cheesed, threw the frisbee around for a while before going back in and having some good runs of ball. After dinner, we had our 2nd message and small group time. Everyone by then had gotten somewhat settled in and we had a good hour of small group time...for my group at least, beside getting into deep discussion and asking the questions, I really wanted to simply get some flow of discussion and having everyone being comfortable with talking. It was really good, went in a circle and everyone shared, some people were still shy..but the fact they shared at all made me really glad. Finally, the moment everyone who goes to retreat is excited for, nighttime. Nighttime doesn't mean sleep, nighttime is where we all gather in one house and talk, chill, play games and have a great time. It started off slow, but got a bit better and went to amazing. Chilling in my house with 3 other guys just playing cards, loser doing pushups...slowly, a few people came into our house and next thing we know, our house was the house everyone gathered in LOL. Us 4 played cards the whole night...I ended up doing like over 200 pushups -_-...not cool. Ended up sleeping at like 3 ish...which is pretty good considering I slept at like 5 last year at retreat. The next morning set my alarm at 8 for 8:30 lunch, stopped it and next thing I knew, it was 9...and lunch ends at 9:30 -_-...jumped out of bed, threw on a shirt and went out for breakfast...was so tired and sluggish and entire day, everybody was. It was the last day and we would be leaving after lunch...after breakfast, we had our last message of retreat, everyone was really tired...if you looked around, you saw nuff people dozing off or with their heads down and eyes closed lol...small group time, we talked for a good 15 minutes and then just chilled the next 15 cuz everyone was majorly exhausted I guess. Afterwords, we had free time but me and my friend chilled as our small group left and we just talked and had good conversation...I'm glad that no matter how far we drifted apart, we still came back, though we may not be as close as we were, we're still on the level where we can talk and share about our lives and stuff. We had closing ceremony and everyone headed home to pack and stuff, it was time to say goodbye. Everyone was really bummed and sad cuz it was so short, only 2 days and 1 night...their complaint was they wanted to have more fun. I think the reason I would wanna have it 3 days 2 nights is cuz looking around, I saw lots of people I didn't know, or lots of people that have been coming for a while, but no one has realy reached out to them, even at lunch, they would sit with a group but not talk or no one would talk to them. My biggest thing is I wish it were longer and I wish they were more activities or things scheduled that allowed us to interact and mingle and really get to know one another. My pastor was saying during closing ceremony that retreat is one of the best times cuz we all sit in one house or whatever and we just tlak and have fun and really get to know one another. I was disappointed I didn't get to really reach out to everyone, but there's always Sundays and Fridays. Anyways, friend drove me home...was going with her to watch her softball games and cheer her on, ended up getting lost and ended up in Mississauga...-_-....started raining hard and both her games ended up being cancelled so we went to get some food, then went to the mall and met up with her friend and just chilled. Afterwards, we went back to her house and watched some movies, her friend left and 2 other of our friends came over and we just chilled and watched more movies, it was such a long day lol...didn't get home till past 12...showered, ate, and didn't sleep till like 1...I missed my shower and bed so much...wow this is a long post lol...hahaha kudos to you if you legit read all the way down here.