a fun experience

While most kids spend their christmas break with family and enjoying new gifts or feeling stuffed from a big lunch or dinner, I was in the woods, without my family. Why was I in the woods in December? I was attending to Christmas Insitute.
It sounded like a school or a special asylum for who knows what when I first heard of Christmas Instiute. It's actually church camp/retreat sort of thing. The camp starts a day after christmas and ends on New Year's Eve. I've been attending for two yers. The things we did there in camp definitely made up for not being at home.
The last time I went to CI was an awesome experience because the year before that wasn't really really the best experience but I blame myself for that one. I didn't give it a chance and I spent the whole time moping. So when i went to CI again, I went there with an open mind and heart. Needless to say, I was definitely satisfied on how it resulted.
It wasn't really all bout God in camp; we also had an interest group and we did an olympics where we played competitive games in teams. I tried out the drama interest group and I had a good time experimenting with acting. For the olympics, I went all out and played my heart out since I'm very competitive but I had arguments in my team. It was funny because we placed third place in the olympics since I really pushed my team of arrogant, careless kids to do their best. We also had one night when we go on a blind date and we would also go to "prom" with the same date afterwards. My date and I almost won Prom King and Queen but they mistaken my date for his little brother (he won last year's Prom King and you couldn't win the title twice in a row). All in all, it was amazing time.
I really hope that I come back to CI for the third time. CI is definitely that escape people need to get themselves back together when things go wrong. I want to do CI til I'm in college; it's just so amazing and it really is a spiritual lift.