Retreat

The 180 Retreat. One word: awesome! We made our way to Wu Kwai Sha in the evening and went straight into some worship time. It was really nice being outdoors with everyone singing and clapping. Afterwards we went to our dorms and got to know everyone. I was sharing with Karen, Jess, Suki, Jennifer and Cora. They were all really nice and, apart from Suki, were all Canadian-Chinese. I think we ended up playing Uno and cards before bed too.

The next day we started with breakfast and then some quiet time, where we got to find a nice spot to sit and spend time reflecting or praying or whatever. We then all came together for some group activities including:

Skittle shooting:

Pegging:

Egging:

and Balloon blowing:

After lunch was worship time. Derek Ma, the Pastor, gave a short talk and we sang a load of songs. In the afternoon we played a LOT of dodgeball. We played for nearly 3 hours and I was so good haha! There were loads of times where it was just me left against the other team. I even won it for us a few times- yay! When we started playing it was really, really hot but when we finished it was dark and the mozzies had come out.

For dinner we had to BBQ our own food. We all had so much fun doing that! I think Jo should have won something for the amount of food she set on fire ha. We had sausages, chicken wings, steak, pork chops, fish balls and S'mores. They were the best S'mores ever! We had choccy digestives and extra chocolate as well as the marshmallows. Mmmmmm!

It took us forever to cook everything so while we ate we played games like Charades. We then split into teams again and played Sardines in the dark. Ricky, our team leader, went and hid and we had to go and find him, and then we were meant to hide with him. We never found him. I think we all gave up in the end until he came out hehe. By then it was bed time so everyone headed back to the 3 story "Bungalows". Instead of going to bed a group of about 15 stayed up playing Uno until...err...5am. Every hour someone would ask the time and then we'd say "Just one more game..." It was such a laugh though, and there were so many people that you'd have 6 people shouting "CUT!" all at once. Oh and if people were cutting with the +4 cards someone would end up picking up 24 cards. That someone was me. I did manage to win a few games though!

I don't think anyone got much sleep that night, especially anyone trying to sleep in our room haha. Sunday was quieter- with breakfast, morning exercise, quiet time, lunch and time to pack. We squeezed in a few group shots, then it was on the coach and back to Central. Whew, what a weekend!