Thursday, May 20, 2004

'I never give anybody hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell.' [Harry S Truman]



Retreat. Huh. What can one say? It wasn't as good as last year, but it wasn't bad either.

The best parts of it, however, were the free time periods.

The last night, a bunch of A-crowders and durry munchers [Smokers] started up a little fire in the sloping grassy area behind the chapel.

It was about 11pm or so, when we were supposed to be in bed, so the teachers were wondering where we were. They figured it out, and were really pleased with us, so they told us the next morning, and left us alone for another hour or so.

Seeing about 90% of your students [usually divided at free time] all together of their own accord is a good thing I guess.

Dave was roped into playing his guitar for them [even though they went about it the wrong way by taking it from his room and hunting him down]

There were some altercations, but nothing that I feel I need to note.

Affirmations were the last day. Basically an affirmation session is where you write what you feel about the people in your CLP group [positive things] and then give them to them, and then you write ones for your friends.

It sounds corny, but it's really a nice thing to do. It wouldn't work on the net, it needs to be a P2P thing.

I was surprised at how many I received that encouraged me to keep my moral standards, and how they really respected my religious beliefs.

I've got one here from a guy in my CLP, Craig Tanzer, Tanzer for short.

Now, I've known him since year eight, and we're friends, but generally that doesn't extend any further than a quick conversation in class or CLP in the mornings, so I was pretty surprised when I received this from him;

'You have such great morals which need to be respected. Don't change for anyone mate. I have so much respect for you the way you are.' Craig

There's about 20+ others from close friends and CLP members that I'd like to put up, but I'd rather keep them restricted to a physical sense, if you know what I mean. Such a platonic influx would really take away from the special-ness.

*hugs for all*
[If you haven't guessed, I'm well again]

Oh yeah, I'm also attending Alexa's part this Saturday, should be interesting [It's supervised, yay!] and Mark and I have much of the evilness planned for wigging out our Religion teacher.

So so inept. She gives the stereotypical blonde a bad name.


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