Multicultural Leadership Retreat: September 5th-7th

This weekend I went away with Annie and a couple of other friends to Beaver Creek on the Multicultural Leadership Retreat.
When we arrived on Friday night we were greeted by our dinner which was catered by a restaurant called the Famous Daves. I was very happy to see roast chicken, so this week I didn't miss out on my Friday night dinner! There was also baked beans, corn bread, potato salad and ribs! Mmm!
I should mention, the whole weekend was totally free which was awesome considering how nice the food was!
On Friday night we did very little but played a couple of names games which were great as by the time Friday was over all 40 of us knew everyone.
The people were lovely, some Freshman along with a number of students who've been going on the retreat since it started in 2004.
The retreat was really relaxed, we had loads of free time to study as everyone brought work with them. I managed to get a big chunk of my reading done there. It was a nice setting for school work though as it was really quiet and secluded.
On Friday night we made a campfire and sat around and told ghost stories which was fun except it took me a bit longer to get to sleep that night!
On Saturday morning we slept in and then had breakfast, again delicious, scrambled eggs, toast, cereal, sausages and hash browns.
After breakfast we played a game called Tanks where everyone is in a pair and one person is blindfolded. The game was outside where there was a large circle marked by cones. The blindfolded person is inside the circle and the other person is outside it. In the circle along with about 20 other people are tennis balls on the floor which are ammo and big sticks which are mines!
The non blindfolded person has to guide the blindfolded person to the ammo which they then have to try and his another person with. If you get hit 3 times you're out or if you touch a mine once. Probably confusing to understand if you weren't there but it was really fun.
We played a couple of other games before lunch and then after lunch we were put in groups and assigned an ethnic group e.g. Native American, Black, White etc etc.
In our groups we had to come up with a list of stereotypes about the ethnic group we were given which was rather amusing. After that there was a general discussion about stereotypes and why they're there etc. Very heated!
After dinner on Saturday night which was take away pizza we had a talent show. A couple of people sang, one girl did a kind of magic trick, some people did skits, however, myself and a load of the other talentless people drummed on the tables as our contribution.
After the talent show we made another campfire, this time we cooked S'mores on it. However we cooked them on twigs so I ate as much tree as I ate marshmallow...mmm!
The weekend was really fun, as you can probably tell I found it worthwhile mostly for the good food! Food aside though, we met a lot of people and it was generally nice to just be off campus for a couple of days.
Theres no more retreats while I'm here but there is a movie night and bowling night planned for the next month which should be nice.
Now I have to go and do some work but I didn't want to deprive all you lovely folk of my blog love!

Hannah
xxx