Freshman Retreat
I gazed around me at the full room. Sitting on the most uncomfortable hard cement surrounded by other freshmen and some seniors, we attentively waited to see what they were going to have us do that day. At the beginning I was nervous because a lot of people said that I would most likely cry and I didn’t know what they would have us do that would make us cry.
The morning of September 17,2015 we met in the commons and loaded the buses. Anxiously the freshman class stood waiting to get inside, as we crowded the door to get inside and we could hear cheering. We all were wondering what was going on inside. It was the seniors cheering us on. All of us finally got inside and were told to do a bunch of random things like, a burping contest, seeing who had the most pennies and wackiest shoe, who could scream the loudest, and who could come up with the most creative design out of our right shoes, but that’s just a little part of what we did that day. I started to be more comfortable after I knew we were going to be doing things like that. After doing all of the random things we got to the more serious things.
We found our small groups back and were asked some questions and we had to tell what we thought about them. As one another of the games, we all got in a circle and had to sit on …show more content…
She tried cutting her hair shorter, walking with a slouch to try and make herself fit in, but that didn’t work at all. It only made her stand out even more. High School went better for her, she learned to accept the fact and not care that she is going to be tall and tower over most of the kids. From this story I learned to accept myself for how I am now and not to change that because of how everyone else
I gazed around me at the full room. Sitting on the most uncomfortable hard cement surrounded by other freshmen and some seniors, we attentively waited to see what they were going to have us do that day. At the beginning I was nervous because a lot of people said that I would most likely cry and I didn’t know what they would have us do that would make us cry.
The morning of September 17,2015 we met in the commons and loaded the buses. Anxiously the freshman class stood waiting to get inside, as we crowded the door to get inside and we could hear cheering. We all were wondering what was going on inside. It was the seniors cheering us on. All of us finally got inside and were told to do a bunch of random things like, a burping contest, seeing who had the most pennies and wackiest shoe, who could scream the loudest, and who could come up with the most creative design out of our right shoes, but that’s just a little part of what we did that day. I started to be more comfortable after I knew we were going to be doing things like that. After doing all of the random things we got to the more serious things.
We found our small groups back and were asked some questions and we had to tell what we thought about them. As one another of the games, we all got in a circle and had to sit on …show more content…
She tried cutting her hair shorter, walking with a slouch to try and make herself fit in, but that didn’t work at all. It only made her stand out even more. High School went better for her, she learned to accept the fact and not care that she is going to be tall and tower over most of the kids. From this story I learned to accept myself for how I am now and not to change that because of how everyone else