The Retreat

Well, I'm back! Did you miss me? This weekend the school had its annual winter retreat, I'm not going to tell you it was amazing or the other thing, you'll just have to decide for yourselves.

PROS.

The food was certainly a step up from Sodexo

I actually slept

The Worship services were amazing (Great Guitarist, Great Speaker)

The slopes were all powder, and there was a blizzard (this made it possible for some of the most crazy random happenstances ever)

I actually feel good about my snowboarding abilities now


Cons.

Well ... more like one big con. Okay, so this was my first time on a T bar lift with a snow board. I got over to the lift. I got in front of the line, and began preparation for impact.

1. Identification on my person (For the coroner) *check
2. Headgear (Not that it would help) *check
3. Underwear (Just so my mother knows I died with clean clothing on) *check

The seconds passed by, one, one one hundredth, one and one millionth... Brace yourself! Bang it hit me (quite literally). And low and behold i began to rise up the hill to my great glee, I mean sure I almost fell off like 6 times on the ascent but hey I made it to the top in front of our group, and just as I prepared to celebrate Mr. Bowen pointed at me and said, "SSSSSOOOOONNNN, you have bloody nose"...Niagara falls would have been more exact. For the next 20 minutes I lay down in the snow tying to get the bloody thing to stop ... well bleeding. Of course all of the BFA guys went down the hill, abandoning me to die in the blizzard. I must have had like 50 Germans poking at me to see if I was still alive. After the bleeding stopped, excitedly I got to my feet and began to finally get some of that powder. I felt like I needed real action, so I took what turned out to be the black diamond of the resort and ended up face-planting like 4 times. TII (This is Isaac)