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就读学校：Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School
所在地：Virginia Beach, VA弗吉尼亚州
Retreat是在天主教学校中最重要的一件事情。Retreat的意思是“远离或清静”的意思。它就其实是一个天主教的宗教活动。作为一名十一年级女生，根据学校安排，会在三月份进行我的retreat。这对我来说是好的一个经历。学校计划是给新生半天的retreat，给十年级一天的retreat，给十一年级三天的retreat（根据性别分开），以及给十二年级两天的retreat。
在为期3天的活动中，十一年级的女同学被带到一个我们不知道的地方，在那里开始我们的生活。听起来不错，不是吗？每八个女孩会被分配到一个房间住。女生们不可以选择跟谁一起居住，你也许会被分配到你只在走廊里见过的人或不认识的人在一起。学校会在retreat的时候给学生们发一个小本子，记录你retreat的时候的心路历程。它记录了你如何成长起来，逐渐成熟的脚步。
这是一个星期三晚上，乘着前往retreat小屋的校车，每个人都显得异常兴奋，唱着歌一路直到我们当晚居住的地方。歌声音量如此之大，以至于外面的行人可能外面觉得车里正在上演高中歌舞剧。
当我们到达时，最喜欢的老师欢迎来迎接我们！他们唱歌，跳舞，欢呼，并把我们的手机和手表没收了。他们说，在这期间学生不准玩手机和查时间。没错，Retreat的目的是为了修身养性，与基督拉近关系。每当我们想询问时间的时候，所有的工作人员将回答“现在是Karios时间！”。工作人员绝对之前经过了培训，你可以以任何方式进行测试，他们会给你同样的答案。
在第一个晚上，我们都聚集在一起听“模范”Senior演讲。他们分享了一些困难，以及如何克服它们的故事。然后我们回到我们自己的房间，并在演讲后分享想法和感受。通常情况下，这部分是最情绪化的，因为大家可能会把演讲中的故事联系她们个人经历。
所有这些教育演讲结束后，这是party的时间！我们在主房间大声放音乐，这个房间很大，有一个排球场和攀岩墙。人群挤在舞台上跳舞。我的一个朋友谁偷偷告诉我，时间已经到了11:30。快乐的时光总是过得很快。
第二天早上，我们步行到木房子吃早餐。这是一个不错的早餐。早饭有炒鸡蛋，饼干和果酱还有橙汁。然后，我们去爬山！我们去了一个“森林”。监督员给我们时间，我们可以到他们掌控范围内的任何地方。
下午，我们听取了老师的一些“女生谈话”。他们谈到了如何让青少年之间的关系变得更好。我们意识到，我们确实需要珍惜高中的友谊。
为期3天的闭关之后，我们认为，我们每个人之间的关系拉近了。女孩正在变得更加接纳彼此。这是一个良好的开端！
This month, there were two big partiesin our family, the first one was the baptism party for their young granddaughter, and the second one was Thanksgiving party.
If you are in the catholic school like me, you will be very familiar of the word“baptism”. Baptism is a Christian or Catholic ceremony in which a person is baptized.
Retreat is one of the most biggest things in Catholic school. Retreat means “ to stay away or withdrawal”. It is like a religious field trip. As a junior girl, I just had my retreat on March. It was a wonderful experience for me. Our school plans a half-day retreat for freshmen, a full-day retreat for sophomores, a 3-day retreat for juniors ( separated by gender), and a 2-day for seniors.
During the 3-daytrip, junior girls were taken to somewhere that we do not know, and start our life there. Sounds pretty good, right? Every eight girlswould be assigned in a room. Girls cannot choose your roommates, so the people you stay with might be the one you do not know really well, or just meet in the hallway.
The journal notebooks would be assigned to every student, and it records everything about you from the freshmen retreat till the senior retreat. It records the footsteps of how you grow up and become mature.
It is a Wednesday night that we leave for the retreat in the school bus. Everybody was extremely excited and sang all the way to the Kairos house. The voicewas so loud that people outside might think there was a high school musical going on in the bus.
When we arrived, the teachers that we like the most welcome us. They sang, danced, cheered and took our phones and watches away. They said that studentswere not allowed to check the time and phones.
Exactly, the purpose of this retreat wasto stay away from the chaos and connect with Christ. Whenever people wantedto know what time it was,all the staff would answer “ It’s Kairos time!”. They wereabsolutely trained before, and you can test them in any way, they would give you the same answer.
On the first night, we weregathered to hear the speeches from the “model” seniors. They shared stories about some obstacles and how they overcame. Then we got back our own room, and sharedthe reflections and thoughts after the speech. Usually, this partwas the most emotional, because girls may connect the stories to their personal experience. After all those educational speeches, it wasparty time!
We played loud music in the main room, and itwas a big room with a volleyball court and rock climbing wall. The crowd rushed to go upon the stage and dance. One of my friends who secretly took a watch told me it was already 11:30. It was such a good time.
Next morning, wewerecalled to walk to a wooden house to have breakfast. It was a nice breakfast. I hadscramble eggs, a piece of fresh and big biscuit with jam and bacon with orange juice. Then, we went hiking! We went to a forest. The supervisor gave us time to walk around in the range that we can hear them calling.
In the afternoon, we heard some “girl’s talks” from the teachers. They talked about how to make the relationship between the teenagers better in a funny way. We realized that we do need to cherish the girls sit beside us and the friendship in high school.
After the 3-day retreat, we felt that the relationship between each of us is pulled closer. Girls are becoming more open to accept each other. It is a good start. The school really did a good job!
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