This weekend, all the FLI students and staff took a retreat to a camp in the mountains about two hours away from the Springs. Of course, as with every camp I go to that’s not UPBC, I placed this one under a lot of scrutiny and comparison. My deduction was, it was a nice camp, but the food was defiantly wanting. :-) haha, but seriously, it was a great time to be together as a community and really get to know each other.
The fist day, we were split into our Life Groups (groups of about six that we’re gonna be doing things with throughout the semester) and did some team building activities. First we did what we call at UPBC “peanut butter river”, here it was ice burges. We had to try to get our whole team across a streach of ground, or “arctic water” without falling in or losing an “ice burge” (or, piece of wood) we lose the wood if we lost contact with it at any point. I knew how to do it, but I kept quiet so the others in my group could have a chance to figure it out, which they did eventally, and we did very well (or at least, we made it across before the other team :-).
Next, we did the spider web. There was a frame about six feet by six feet and all wrapped around it was string, making a web. The point was to try to help get our team through the holes without touching the string, and without reusing any of the holes. This one entailed a lot of trust, since many of us had to put our faith in out teammates as the lifted us up above their heads to slide us through the holes at the top. But, we did that one too, almost beating the other team. (they got us by about three seconds!)
Next and last, we played musical chairs (by the way, we were doing these skills with four teams combined). It was a lot of fun, basically a dance party going on, but we still got a good taste of the competitive side of our group members. After playing tradish musical chairs though, we played a version where, every time the music would stop we’d take away two chairs, BUT no one was out. So basically, as you can imagine what happened, by the end we had twenty people dancing around a single chair and then piling on top of each other on top of the chair. After that one, however, we still weren’t done! The chair was taken away, and confusedly, we danced around an empty space, wondering what we were to do when the music stopped. When it stopped, we kind of looked at each other for a minute, then we sprung into action, creating a human chair circle, where everyone sits on everyone else’s laps and we squat in a circle. It worked!
The next morning we were in our groups again, but this time we were challenged with a winter survival senerio in which we were given 12 items and together as a team we had to rank the items by order of importance. It was a good time of working out a problem and “surviving” together. After that we each told our stories of how we got to FLI (which are some pretty amazing stories) and how God has been working in our lives (again, amazing stories). Later that day we went on a hike up a mountain, where I learned the limits of what my lungs can take at the altitude :-). It was great though, I hiked most of the 4 ½ hours with Anne Marie and we got to talk about a lot of great things, really good conversation (that is, at least when we were taking breaks, it was harder to talk while we walked)
The rest of the weekend was full of good, good conversation and getting to know each other on a deeper level. I love being here where everyone is in love with God and love to talk about Him. Even the bus ride home was one with lots of good convos.
Then we were home again, and I have to say, it’s good to be sleeping in my own bed :-)
Psalm 121:1-2 I lift up my eyes to the mountains, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and earth.
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