RETREAT: Weak or Strong

On the Wednesday of May 13th, the whole of TY went to a retreat in Maynooth University. The retreat was held in a seminary. Firstly, we formed a big circle with our seats and we were then given an introduction, and met our supervisors. We were told that it's our decision to choose to have a good day or not so they advised us to participate as much as we could.

Our first task was to link arms and sit while still linking arms with the people beside you, this shows our strengths and weaknesses. The first four people that fell were chosen to be "dentists" for a game that still shows strengths and weaknesses, to do so we were to sit down and link arms with the people beside you and hold onto them as they get dragged away from the four dentists.. Now you decide what role we played. The second game that we played was to get into groups of whatever number was called out.

After our 10 minute break, we got in to groups of 10. Each group was given a piece of paper with a question and discuss about it with the group we were in. The question that we got was, 'If you were to change one thing about one or both of your parents what would it be?' After discussing with our small group we then had a huge discussion with the rest of the groups about each of the questions from each group. The discussion became serious with a bit of laughter of course.

In honesty, I thought I wasn't going to enjoy the retreat but as it started I ended up having a good time and I enjoyed myself throughout the whole retreat. I definitely recommend it and I would love to go back again.