An inseparable tandem.
In my heart, lies a man who would love me until the end of time.
In my heart, lies a man who would love me until the end of time.
First Retreat
We had our retreat last February 18-19. And all I can say is -- 'twas fun!!
When we got to LFC [retreat house], we went inside the conference room or some room wherein there are many chairs. We had 4 sessions with Fr. Mario Sanchez. The first one was about "Recollection". The 2nd was either about Life or Gratitude. The 3rd, I think it was Gratitude. The 4th -- Happiness, I think. Well, we had activities, too. The first one was a drawing. We drew "herods" as our sins somewhat, "stars" for the special people in our life, "gifts" - the gifts that we went to give for Jesus and a picture of ourselves and a symbol of God. After drawing, we passed them and Fr. Sanchez will pick a drawing and he/she will recite in front. We were all worried and we were hoping that our names wouldn't be called. Until we [me&arielle] heard our names... We didn't refuse to go in front. Hahaha. Next, we put a list of who we want to thank God for. The last one was -- we wrote a list of all our sins. After that, 'twas our confession. Then, we took a shower. Haha. After that, rosary then dinner. Next, meditation && sharing.
We also had action songs during our session which are "Journey", "Only Selfless Love", "Madali Lang", "Deep Deep" and "I Can". During the meditation, we did action songs first which was "Deep Deep". Each section performed. Hahaha. We were hilarious! Then, we all meditated. The lights were off. Ms. Susan, the woman who was talking in the microphone, told us that it was time to talk to Jesus. And then she started asking us questions. "How are your grades? Are they low? How are your parents? Do they scold you most of the time? How are you friends? Did you betray them? Did they betray you?"... And so forth. It all made us cry. And we started apologizing for what we have done. Good heavens! My tears were like whoa. Everyone was crying. But not everyone. Some weren't crying. But most of us were. We hugged, cried and apologized. Then, we shared our problems to everybody. Arielle & I shared in front and so did other people. After sharing, our teachers gave us letters from our parents. Again, we cried because it was an inspiring letter for all of us. Thanks, Ma! Then, our teachers gave us messages which obviously inspired us all! :)
Then, it was time for us to sleep. We went inside the room and we ate junk food. Hahaha. We all planned not to sleep. Although, some of us slept. I didn't sleep, though. Ms. Julie even went inside our room! And we faked our sleeps. LOL. She asked us if we want to sleep outside, too. Because the boys were kicked out of their rooms and we pitied them. Haha. By the way, we were the only ones who had an air-conditioned room with 10 double decks. It was so fun inside. Sam and I even danced on top of the bed. :)) I was also text messaging that time. But no one was replying, they were probably all asleep 'cause it was 2 in the morning. Hahaha! At 4am, I was text messaging with Denise, and I finally realized that all of my roommates were asleep. I also realized that I was talking to myself because I was talking to Pauline and Sam, but they fell asleep. Hahaha. And because I was sleepy, I fell asleep as well. Our alarms rang at 5am. Which means, I only had 1 hour of sleep. Funny! Gosh, our eyebags were hella big. :))
We took a shower @ 5:30am. And then, we took mass, we had picture taking && we ate breakfast. After that, we got our bags and we went downstairs. We waited for our fetchers and we stayed inside the cottage. We made stories and we laughed. Hahaha. Danielle's driver arrived and we rode in their car, she dropped us @ MG, too. :D
That day was so fun that we miss LFC already!! :(
When we got to LFC [retreat house], we went inside the conference room or some room wherein there are many chairs. We had 4 sessions with Fr. Mario Sanchez. The first one was about "Recollection". The 2nd was either about Life or Gratitude. The 3rd, I think it was Gratitude. The 4th -- Happiness, I think. Well, we had activities, too. The first one was a drawing. We drew "herods" as our sins somewhat, "stars" for the special people in our life, "gifts" - the gifts that we went to give for Jesus and a picture of ourselves and a symbol of God. After drawing, we passed them and Fr. Sanchez will pick a drawing and he/she will recite in front. We were all worried and we were hoping that our names wouldn't be called. Until we [me&arielle] heard our names... We didn't refuse to go in front. Hahaha. Next, we put a list of who we want to thank God for. The last one was -- we wrote a list of all our sins. After that, 'twas our confession. Then, we took a shower. Haha. After that, rosary then dinner. Next, meditation && sharing.
We also had action songs during our session which are "Journey", "Only Selfless Love", "Madali Lang", "Deep Deep" and "I Can". During the meditation, we did action songs first which was "Deep Deep". Each section performed. Hahaha. We were hilarious! Then, we all meditated. The lights were off. Ms. Susan, the woman who was talking in the microphone, told us that it was time to talk to Jesus. And then she started asking us questions. "How are your grades? Are they low? How are your parents? Do they scold you most of the time? How are you friends? Did you betray them? Did they betray you?"... And so forth. It all made us cry. And we started apologizing for what we have done. Good heavens! My tears were like whoa. Everyone was crying. But not everyone. Some weren't crying. But most of us were. We hugged, cried and apologized. Then, we shared our problems to everybody. Arielle & I shared in front and so did other people. After sharing, our teachers gave us letters from our parents. Again, we cried because it was an inspiring letter for all of us. Thanks, Ma! Then, our teachers gave us messages which obviously inspired us all! :)
Then, it was time for us to sleep. We went inside the room and we ate junk food. Hahaha. We all planned not to sleep. Although, some of us slept. I didn't sleep, though. Ms. Julie even went inside our room! And we faked our sleeps. LOL. She asked us if we want to sleep outside, too. Because the boys were kicked out of their rooms and we pitied them. Haha. By the way, we were the only ones who had an air-conditioned room with 10 double decks. It was so fun inside. Sam and I even danced on top of the bed. :)) I was also text messaging that time. But no one was replying, they were probably all asleep 'cause it was 2 in the morning. Hahaha! At 4am, I was text messaging with Denise, and I finally realized that all of my roommates were asleep. I also realized that I was talking to myself because I was talking to Pauline and Sam, but they fell asleep. Hahaha. And because I was sleepy, I fell asleep as well. Our alarms rang at 5am. Which means, I only had 1 hour of sleep. Funny! Gosh, our eyebags were hella big. :))
We took a shower @ 5:30am. And then, we took mass, we had picture taking && we ate breakfast. After that, we got our bags and we went downstairs. We waited for our fetchers and we stayed inside the cottage. We made stories and we laughed. Hahaha. Danielle's driver arrived and we rode in their car, she dropped us @ MG, too. :D
That day was so fun that we miss LFC already!! :(
Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 10:43 PM.
