Rotaract Cabin Retreat

On Friday, January 13th we all headed up to Jerika's cabin for our Rotaract Retreat. The purpose of this retreat was to get to know each other better and have fun, of course, but it was also to trap us all in a room to get some important club things taken care of! It was honestly a lot of fun.

12 of us Rotaractors were able to attend. After arriving we started off with some getting to know you games like 'I Have Never' and our own version 'I Have,' where we went around saying the fun, random things that we HAVE done in our lives. It was much more interesting and we heard some really great stories! Stories that we will hold over each other's heads for a while.....

After that we decided to go down to the lake and walk around on the ice. It seemed like a good idea, taking a chance and hoping we wouldn't fall in to our icy demise on Friday the 13th, but hey, who's superstitious?

After deciding that we were all freezing and not wanting to push our luck anymore, we came back to the cabin and warmed up some lasagna for dinner while we talked and shared more stories.



After dinner we had our long anticipated planning meeting, where we held elections and talked about our future activities. The results of our meeting are posted in the previous blog Meeting Minutes 01/13/12.

After dinner and our planning meeting we had an epic night full of Sardines and Murder in the Dark. Both games were terrifying as the cabin was out in the middle of nowhere and when the lights were off it was completely dark. We were all in a large cabin with rusty saws and antlers all over the walls. It's a miracle that the only casualty of the night was the cup that Chris broke on the counter. We also spent way longer than we should have telling ghost stories and all around just freaking ourselves out. After that we decided we needed something a little more cheerful, so we watched Little Rascals while some of our Rotaractors played BANG!

We all went to bed surprisingly early (for a bunch of college students) and went home the next morning after a delicious breakfast.

Overall we had a blast and we would all love to do it again! Thank you to everyone who made it possible, Jerika for letting us use the cabin, Whitney for bringing the food, John and Jeff for driving, and everyone else for coming and making it such a fun retreat!

-Katie Hathaway

Rotaract Secretary