Being an Ohio State student who is
involved in multiple student organizations I have been to a plethora of
retreats. But, I have to say that
our BLF retreat last Sunday was probably my favorite. Going into the retreat I did not really know what to expect. I was just hoping we didn’t do all of
the typical icebreakers and I was pleasantly surprised when we didn’t. There were a few things I wanted to get
out of the retreat. I was really
hoping to get to know all the fellows better particularly the senior
class. Before the retreat I had
not really many interactions with the senior fellows and I did not even know
most of their names. I really
enjoyed working with them and getting to know them better. It was good to see them outside of a
semiformal meeting setting. I was
also looking forward to getting to know some of the junior fellows better. The fellows who are not in my pod or
challenge group I had not really had a chance to interact with. Overall the retreat was great for
getting to know all of the fellows.
Going into the retreat I was also
looking to build a better since of trust between the fellows, and that is
exactly what we did. I think it is
very important that we all trust each other since we spend so much time working
together. We did a number of
trust building activities. I think
my favorite one was when we had to guide one of group members to find an object
on the ground. But the twist was
that one person could see but not move or talk, another person could move but
not talk or see, another person could talk but not see or move, and the last
person was a spotter who could not do anything beside stop the person that was
moving from bumping into things. I
think that activity required a lot of trust with each other because we had to
depend on everyone to help guide us.
The retreat definitely showed us a
lot of things that will help all the fellows with our challenges. We were able to get to know each other
better, build a better since of trust, and learned how to think outside of the box. The retreat was a lot of fun.
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