*Confirmation Retreat 2010 :]

Yesterday, the grade 7 class 2010 of St. Edmund's went to St. Paul's for a retreat, learning more about Confirmation. At first when I woke up in the morning, I didn't want to go because it seemed boring and I was really tired. But once we were at St. Paul's and got started, I saw the NET people and knew for sure that, the day was going to be fun. So to start off in the morning, we first had a morning prayer. After, we played "all it tag" to get warmed up for the rest of the afternoon. It was where everyone was it, and if you got tagged, you had to go down. If the person who tagged who got tagged as well, you got to go back up. This was a good game because it made us all to be sure to be honest. After the game, we went back inside to have some talks. Then we got into our small groups. All the girls were together, Isabel, Caitlin, Jessica, Kristina, Juliana, Karissa, Martyna, Clarissa and I. We all told our names first and our favorite dessert. We talked about anything together, if we had any questions about Confirmation.

So many things happened that day. We even said grace in a Star Wars theme, which was awesome! Now we do that every Friday at school I think? :] Many skits were acted out by the NET people too. They were all fun and enjoyable to watch. After, we watched a video. It was about a boy who lied to his parents just so he wouldn't get in trouble. But his parents find out later because he was acting weirdly. It was a very short but good movie, That teaches us a lesson. And there was this quote, "Nothing you ever do, can make me love you less." In this case talking about God's love for us. You'll need to watch the movie to have full understanding. Right after that video, we went into the Church. That's when everyone became emotional... many of my friends were crying :( It was just when we could have our own time to talk to God. There was even Confession available to us, which I went to. After about an hour of that, we had another hour of mass. It was atleast total of 2 hours inside the Church. And honestly, it really helped me. I wanted to stay longer. :)

Well that was a very fun day at the retreat, and I wish we could have something like it again!