boigraphic narravtive

                                                           The Church Retreat

                     This man lead the kids from confirmation to church retreats. He is funny , kind, hardworking, and caring. He is also tall, loves the confirmation leaders, and he is respectful. When the kids and the leaders get to the retreat in rancho alegre, they help everyone take out the suitcases out of the bus. They start having groups of eight and tell each other about themselves. the kids go to sleep like at 12 in the night while the leaders have meetings and getting the tables or chairs ready for breakfast tomorrow.

                    The next morning the kids get thirty minutes to get ready for breakfast, but whoever comes late to breakfast, they have to dance the t-cup song. During breakfast, Jim told the kids that the speaker is on and whoever wants to make a speech can come up to the microphone. Also he tells one of the leaders to say a prayer or say a prayer for our food and the kids. After breakfast, the kids and the leaders go walk to the woods and do activities about church. When they finished doing the activity, they come back to the hall and share some of the activities they did.

                    Next, the leaders send the kids outside while they start getting the tables and chairs ready for lunch. After the leaders were done fixing everything, they let the kids, leaders, and the other people to go find their names to sit on a table. when the kids and everyone else is done eating, Jim tells the leaders to take the kids to go play volleyball outside the hall. When the kids are done playing, they work on a worksheet and talk about what kind of bad stuff they went through and how will they change it. When the kids are done with the worksheet, the leaders send the kids go back to the cabins to get a blanket or a jacket to be warm.

                    The leaders get everything ready for dinner while the kids are standing outside. The leaders are done, they let the kids in to sit on a table to eat for dinner. when everyone is finished eating, Jim and the leaders talk about their bad times and what they go through. Jim told the kids that they aren't going through bad times too because they aren't alone. Jim told everyone his story and some kids told him that they are here for him no matter what. Jim told everyone that no body life is perfect because everyone went through a hard time.

                    Next, all of the chairs were in a circle and Jim told everyone to sit on a chair. The leaders put blindfolds on the kids eyes. Jim started talking on the microphone and he said I am going to read a story about a guy who had a friend who didn't believe in god and the friend visit hell and was asking for forgiveness. After the story, everyone took of their blindfolds and they started to pray or an hour or two. When we are done praying, Jim lets the kids go group by group to go get a blanket for the campfire.

                  Jim told everyone to meet at the campfire site to have a campfire. when we gets to the campfire site. Jim told everyone to write what are the bad things going on in the world. finally, when we are done writing and burned all the bad things. After that we started singing some church songs and started gathering like a family. After the campfire the kids and leaders go back to the cabins to sleep for the night.

               The final day they get ready for breakfast again and when everyone finished they start making nice speeches about everyone. After that Jim tells the leaders to go take the kids to play volleyball again for an hour and a half. We come back to eat lunch and when we finished eating lunch, Jim tells the kids to go back to their cabin to pack up to go home already. While the kids and leaders are waiting for the bus, they started singing the church songs. everyone started singing and feeling like a real family.

                finally the kids and leaders get on the bus and the bus leaves the retreat and ready to go back home. when they got to the church, Jim was surprised that the kids parents had balloons and flowers for the kids. Jim tells the leaders that he can see a lot of kids have changed through the retreat. he sees people with a positive life with positive choices in the future too. Jim told all the kids and leaders that we are like his kids and family too. Jim is so caring even though we went through a lot , we know we are not alone in this world.


                                                       THE END !!!!