St. Margaret’s Annual FNE Retreat (First Ever Outing As Goshawks) Day 1

 St. Margaret’s Annual FNE Retreat (First Ever Outing As Goshawks) Day 1

February 7, 2025

Written by Alexander Jairam

Dear Reader,

Our first outing-or anything in fact-together as a patrol was the FNE Annual Retreat 2025 at St. Margarets. We did not have a tent so we thought about making a tarp tent. We decided to just use two four-person tents and combine them with a tarp. We are going to do this by facing the two tent’s doors together, opening them, and then playing the tarp over the tents combining them. One of the tents had two doors, which allows us to still get inside. We haven’t had time to put the tarp on the tents yet. WE will most likely put it on tomorrow. The Wayfarers cooked a meatless dinner of spaghetti and sourdough bread. The noodles were shaped like shells and some were shaped like screws. But, some unexpected problem appeared. Because of our tent dilemma, we were not able to eat at the same time as everyone else. Unfortunately, the Wayfarers mill calculated how much pasta to cook and Elk kind of forgot that we were setting up instead of eating. Therefore, we had to wait for more food to be cooked. Luckily, there was still some sourdough bread we were able to eat for an appetizer. Although, the butter was out. But, since it was a retreat, we got to watch a movie. The only problem was that our food wasn’t cooked yet. Because of this, the Goshawk patrol got Medieval Times treatment. By this I mean that we ate our dinner while watching Keys of the Kingdom-the movie we watched. The film was only 2 hours and 17 minutes but to Andrew and I, it seemed like forever. After the movie, everyone went to sleep except for people who have a hard time falling asleep while camping, and those going to Adoration. From February 7, 2025 to February 8,2025 at 0730, there was Adoration. Most people took 30 minute or 1 hour turns at Adoration but Gavin stayed up all night in the church in Adoration. The next morning, we were informed that he did not sleep the entire night. This is basically what happened on February 7, 2025. This was written on February 8, 2025 and I got ink on my pinky finger.

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