LASARE3 A56

July 19, 2014

I just got back from my retreat in tagaytay. We were originally designated to have our retreat at batangas, but due to the lack of electricity and water caused by the recent typhoon, we had to either reschedule our retreat or find another retreat house that will take us in.

Here's my bed

looks like a prison bed, but it was comfortable.

"Light of the world" retreat house located in tagaytay city was kind enough to accommodate us despite their lack of electricity (they ran on generators during our stay). It wasn't that big, but it was big enough for our class composed of just 26 students.

26 students.
out of that number, I only knew 2 people.
during the retreat, I made 3 more friends, 1 of which was a former football freestyler.
I was so happy and frustrated at the same time when I heard him say  that he used to freestyle because it is so rare to meet a football freestyler here in the philippines! luckily for me, we're in the same club (Futsal club) and hopefully, i'd be able to learn a few tricks from him.

anyways, back to the retreat.

Our retreat (specifically our section) was pretty chill. Our facilitator was really nice and funny, and what I like about him is that he doesn't follow the program word per word. He says things in his own words and he tries to connect his experiences with the topic that we're in so that we could get a better grasp of the idea that he's trying to convey to us. Also, I like the group that I was with. They made the retreat more fun and enjoyable. I don't know why my other friends said that it was boring. They probably said that because they didn't have a good group to be with.

In the end, the retreat was fun! I wish it was 3 days 2 nights though :(

Check out their ceiling! its made out of egg cart trays! 

Here's a closer view

Here's the promise I made to myself

And they said that they'll send us back our craft in 3-5 years just to see if we really fulfilled it (what)

At around 3am, the generators went off and then the lights outside and our fan inside our room died. 

When I opened my eyes, I saw a silhouette of a person sitting down at the end of my roommate's bed, watching me. I assumed it was her, having difficulties sleeping because of the loss of power. So, I went back to bed. 

The next day, I told her this and to our surprise, she never sat up from bed. She was too scared to even open her eyes, all the more sit up during the complete darkness. She thought that I was just scaring her again, but I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a dream. And whats more creepy is that our friend narrated a similar story during breakfast. He said that there was a girl staring at him at the corner of the room. He tried telling his roommate to wake up, but he was too scared to even lift his covers. 

View from my bed. The silhouette was sitting on the end of her bed, watching me.

the end of her bed is near the corner of the room. pretty similar to my friend's experience.