Switch Leaders Retreat

Cler beat me to writing a fantastic blog about switch leaders retreat... so I'm going to be rude and just copy and paste her blog here :P

I'll probably make a few alterations though (look for the blue writing)
:)

wooooooooo.. got back from SLR on the weekend just past. oh the fun and memories! located at the entrance, we stayed in the top floor of a 3-level unit.

Forgie drove me, Grace and Queenie up. It was quite a nice drive. We talked a lot about very random things and learned about all of Queenie's dirty little secrets... like her title of "female chowdown champion" and her absolute love of KFC (especially the skin). She was drooling about KFC for most of the trip... it was lucky that KFC was just down the road from where we were staying at.

friday night was spent watching the Princess Bride (for those of u too young to know.. it is in the generation of Robin Hood: Men in Tights. another funny-lame-kool movie )

awesome quotes in that movie which a couple of us (caz, un-named-potential-future-girl-switch-leader, who i shall name Q and i) used to make a funny funny song, which is most amusing to us. I may have to get a myspace now so that I can upload the song on the net!!!

saturday was spent sharing about how we've been going (as leaders and personally), as well as beach in the arvo.
there was this kool lagoon/river type thing, which went straight to the beach.. we were there for the time in between low and high tide (medium tide?), and the current was soooo strong! gracie, caz and i decided to brave going across to the other side (the boys were doing their own thing further down the beach). although the width of the lagoon was only around 5m, when u started on one side and got to the other side, you were around 13m further down towards the ocean. got abit scared at some instances.. "will i get across? won't i?" but we got across fine.. tho tired by the time we crossed the 2nd time. Us girls also went shopping while the boys cooked lunch. Then after the beach... us girls went on a secret trip to KFC to get some chicken. It was tasty tasty. I took photos and we look so guilty in the pics. HAHA. The guys still don't know!

saturday night was spent on eye-toy, was quite amusing coz matt, dave and Q had never palyed eye-toy before. (oh, leaders who went were: josh, dave, jonny, matt, gracie, caz, Q and i)
Q seemingly had the most fun with this game "Sonic Sub". aim of the game is to safely bring this submarine through tunnels (lines with jagged rocks, had to keep doing up and down to avoid them). however, unlike most games, there are no physical controllers. the way you guided it up and down through the tunnels is through the use of.... vocal pitch. thats right.. to make it do up, u had to squeal like a girl, and to bring it down, rumble like a man. quite amusing, caz has a video on her phone. sooooo funny! Another reason to get a myspace :P

sunday was spent on eyetoy again and speaking about our groups have been going throughout the year.

the weekend was just a great time to get to know each other better, becoming more comfortable with each other. think its important to have it every year, coz business of life draws us apart, and you dont feel quite as unified towards the end of the year. we dont really get the chance to hang out as a group (unless we're with the kids), so unless you're leading with someone else, you feel quite segregated. not quite alone.. but not quite a unified team either. spending time as just a group was awesome and good to get a perspective on everything again.

think it was particularly good for me, coz ive just needed a break from life (uni and work), which have just felt like a drag and getting too routine for one's liking. feel alot more refreshed now, despite having used more energy than other weekends.

So all in all.. it was a fantastic time! Time for photos!!!