McCall Retreat

First of all, big thank-you to Chris and the other leaders who helped make this trip possible! I enjoyed the beautiful view by the lakeside cabin as well our midnight snowball fights and campfires, catchphrase, ice skating and being able hang out with EVERYONE in the Lifetime Rec Community! I loved getting to know everyone a little better, but I was also dissapointed that the overall expectations were not met.  I understand that we could not make it to the hot springs due to weather conditions, which is fine. But rather than finding something else to do like going back to the cabin, changing into warmer clothes, and then heading into McCall and exploring around or going for a hike, we ended up playing brain games. I know that they were meant as a team building effort but everyone wanted to be outside and was not enjoying them. And I think that the number one thing that surprised me most (maybe because I wasn't able to make the Thursday night meeting), were the sessions. I felt like I was in school again, and I started to think that it might have been better for me to stay at the dorms and work on homework and studying for tests, where I could actually get credit. I truly do appreciate the effort that was put into this trip, and I have no idea how hard it is or time consuming to put together these events, but as I have read in other posts and agree, we already know about diversity and not being judgmental of one another; and I also think that we could have better utilized the time of being in McCall and doing things that we could not do in Boise. I cannot say that I truly learned anything besides learning more about my friends in the LRC. I hope that this post is not taken as me saying that "we have terrible leaders" because I think that you guys are awesome and I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this group! Rather, I hope that this will just be used as some useful feedback to better our trips and activities.

Thank-you again for the fun trip!
~Joanna