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No Retreat, No Surrender
By: Johny Carl B. Gevera, 5th Year BS Industrial Engineering Student
Whenever I'm excited, I wake up early.
The retreat's going to happen on weekends, though I still have classes going on. Luckily, I don't have any quiz or exam going on, so I'll not gonna have to worry anything about. But I still made my excuse letters, to be legal.
Did I just say “excited”? Well, first of all I don't know what the word “retreat” means, and even though I'm already four years then as a scholar I still don't know most of my fellow scholars. I just wanted to at least escape the hustle and bustle of the city, take a breather, forget the norms at least for a time, and just to experience a retreat, whatever that means. Great, just in time, when my mind now being entangled and disoriented.
When we were being split into groups I thought this would be a competition all along, sort of amazing race. Well, this is a first step to get acquainted to fellow scholars. But as I'll find later grouping is only made to check that no one will get lost, sort of division if responsibility; besides, it's hard for Kuya Ryan to look for all of us.
The weather reflects my mood: cloudy, windswept yet humid. Some of them were chatting; some were asleep (it's siesta time); and others, including me, were sightseeing. I really like sightseeing because I always wanted to see the road we're taking; besides, the journey is as important as the destination itself, after all.
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