The goal for this trip was to gain trust with my classmates. I definitely did that and I got closer with them. The Loon Lake retreat was a great experience for me because of how much I learned about myself and the people around me.
How do the choices we make set our future path? The choices we make and set for our selves creates our future. How I see it is like the choices are our building blocks, if you make good choices you add to the blocks making it higher but if I make a bad choice a block can easily fall and ruin my progress. If you look at a mountain it’s not perfectly straight, there is ups and downs to it. Like a mountain it keeps going up, and that’s my goal. To keep on making choices that lift me higher. When looking down at a mountain you can see where you’ve came from and look back on your mistakes to learn too.
Here is a bee hive, each one has things that represent us, we then connected them all together to make this!:
Activities we did throughout the days were rock climbing, archery, low ropes, high ropes, trust falls, scavenger hunt, building a shelter and working with Jono in the work book. When we first arrived at Loon Lake we started off with going out to the big grass field and did ice berg activities. An example of one of the iceberg activities we did was making things like a row boat or light post with how ever many people Jono said to make it, with just ourselves.
When at the climbing wall I found it challenging, I was just about to give up but my friends kept on encouraging me to make it to the top and where to put my hands. I did end up making it and that extra encouragement helped a lot!
One part at the low ropes course was where you would walk across these ropes that are a couple feet of the ground with no harnesses. The other people from your group would stand in there ready position to help guide you along the rope and catch you if you fall. You had trust your group members when doing this. At the high ropes course I chose to walk across a wobbly bridge with no handles and just a partner around fifty feet in the air. We did have the gear on, but my partner and I had to figure out ways to get to the other side without falling off.
Before leaving I made a transfer goal from Loon Lake: To keep up with encouraging and pushing people when they might need it because when I was rock climbing, I almost gave up but I just needed that extra encouragement to make it to the top, and I felt very proud after!
Overall I had a fun time at Loon Lake with getting to know my classmates more and learning about trust. Not having our phones throughout the day was a nice break, and just spending time outside was even better. When doing the work with Jono in the book, I have learned some more things about myself and others.
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