Retreat

                                                  

Retreat




On the 16th of September we went on our annual retreat to The Celbridge Manner Hotel. When we were all sitting in a circle a man came in to begin the retreat. He introduced himself as Brother Andreas and he had a very high voice. His high voice combined with the fact he wanted us to fast for the day put everyone in a fit of giggles. However because laughing at people is really rude all of us were going red trying to stop our laughing. A few minutes later he introduced himself as Connor with a normal voice and told us he had been tricking us. It was really funny. We then played bonding games and people had to embarrass themselves by dancing and telling awful jokes. Towards the end of the day we were all told to pick an upside down card and the adjective on it was supposed to describe us....My word was "special"...Everyone laughed. Finally we did a guided meditation which was really interesting as we did it for half an hour but it felt more like 5 minutes. The retreat was a lot more fun than I'd expected because generally retreats are boring. I really enjoyed that day !