Confirmation Retreat Day 2

So, day two was pretty overwhelming. So many things were planned for the kids. The leaders were super tired and were awakened by the noisy chatters of retreatants who had waken up at 6 in the morning! They stayed up late and woke up super early! These kids have way too much energy! So, the leaders planned a little revenge, I guess you could say. I was very hesitant about what they wanted to put the kids through. We planned a game called The Egg Game for the kids first. Basically, each group was given an egg which represented their spirituality. They were to protect their egg at all times. So we had a couple of different stations where each team's egg was put in danger and they either had to take risks or be safe. If their egg cracked we gave them a plastic egg and they had to scoop up the egg into the plastic one. It was so awesome to see the kids really caring about their egg. When their eggs broke, they all got down to scoop it up...and every last bit of it. There was one thing that one of the kids said that really touched me. At one station, the leaders were pretending to throw a rock at each team's egg. Of course we weren't going to throw it for real. But,with the group that I was going to pretend to throw the rock at, I said are you sure you want to protect your egg like that, you might get hurt. One of the girls from that group, Julie, said " I don't care. I'll get hurt." These kids, although rowdy at times, are really great kids.

We went to mass after that and had reconciliation. Before reconciliation, there was a relay race for the kids. They had to do sooo many difficult things; eat a quarter of a fresh onion, eat clean a quarter of a lime without hands, do jumping jacks and push ups, lick clean peanut butter from a bowl without hands, and drink a really gross concoction E-team made. This was supposed to teach them about humility. It was amazing to see some of the kids working for their group, team work, and encouragement from everyone. It was great.

We also had a trust walk. I learned so much from that and I could only hope that the kids I led got something out of it. When I went outside, I noticed the beautiful city lights twinkling from afar.



If only I had a better camera....

But anyway, I think I skipped around a lot and probably missed a lot of details about day 2, but I really don't want to make this blog super super long so

to be continued....

(I'm also in class....shhhh..don't tell)