Hey guys, so this past weekend was our long awaited AphiOZ retreat, and I'm not ashamed to say that my opinions were wrong about the retreat. I'll be honest, I really did not want to go to the retreat because I felt that we were putting way to much planning into it and that we wern't gonna have fun even if we did a bunch of activities. I was happily surprised at how well it turned out to be though, and all you guys that didn;t end up going missed out on a wonderful experience.
When I woke up on Friday morning, I was pissed off. I had only gotten 2 hours of sleep that night because I was out and I didn't have my car so I couldn't get home early. I literally woke up and was like "FUCK this retreat hella FUCKING early making me wake up at 6AM on a saturday morning ughh FUCK aphio!" I was still pretty pissed off when we got there in the morning, cause it was hella windy and cold there! We were all wearing sweaters, but we might as well have been naked cause the wind cut right through everything. It all started to change though once it got warmer because then we could actually move around and do things instead of just sitting in fetal position trying to gain warmth. We started off pretty strong by playing steal the bacon, which was surprisingly tiring and then after that we attempted to go swimming. The water was amazingly cold though so that wasn't very succesful, but Mo and Mossy made it out to the island in the middle of the lake, which was pretty cool since I couldn't even get my head under the water. After that we wrote letters to our future selves which was interesting cause I actually had alot to write about. I basically just tanned myself and wrote at the same time, which might not have been the best idea because now my shoulders are a little burnt. The day ended with everyone just hanging out and having a pretty nice evening around the campfire, until one by one we all retired to bed.
The next day was pretty nice for me. I think I was one of the few to actually get a good nights sleep, and I ended up sleeping in until pretty late. I thought I would have had an uncomfortable night because I only had two blankets and no true pillow (i used roscoe the turtle as my pillow), but I had a really good sleep and I ended up sleeping in till around noon. I awoke to everyone packing their things up, and when that was finished we all went and played catch with the slingshots that Annie made for us. 3/4 of the slingshots were broken by the time we were done, but no hearts were broken because we had hella fun shooting tennis balls at each other.
It was a pretty interesting experience and one that I won't forget soon. Even though I came out of this trip with my bedsheets smelling like bbq, my shoulders burnt (by the sun), and my fingers burnt (by fire), it was still really worth it to head out there for the retreat. Can't wait till the next time we go on one.
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