Kathia

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May 2018 was our spring retreat.  I had a great time with my friends and staff of the program! I learned a lot in this retreat and it was the best retreat ever with this group.  I’ll talk a little more about why it was so great.

This retreat was wonderful. It was in a beautiful place with nice people and the food was so great. My favorite thing in the retreat was a drawing game that we played together to help us learn how to communicate with each other and pay attention to what others are saying. I learned how to listen and pay attention to what others are saying. I spent some good time with the staff and the students too. I learned a lot of things such as how to work in a team.  By working as team we can succeed in everything we do and we can make progress when we work together.

I learned how to manage with stress in school, before I did not know how to handle the pressures, especially the ones that I’m facing at school. Stress can destroy us if we don’t know how to manage this pressure.  I learned a lot about how I can discover stress and how to help others who are crumbling in stress. But now I know how to fight it.

We played a game on the beach to and we visited an artisan market where they sell products made in Haiti.  We also watched a movie which talked about forgiveness. That was my favorite movie because I really know it’s hard to forgive others.

The one thing that I’ll never forget at the retreat is when the people taught us their dreams for Haiti and how they want to help Haiti. I could see that Haiti can change with the help of all these young people. I could see success around us and happiness for Haiti because of this potential that they have. So in this retreat I learned so much I can’t even tell you all of it. The most important thing is that the retreat was my best moment ever.  I liked everything!