Last week almost all of my class here at Seycove went to Loon Lake, a educational retreat about an hour away from the school. To get there we had to drive along a very scary logging road that took us through a dark forest, not gonna lie I thought we were being kidnapped. 

On this retreat we were promised a few things, good food, unique experiences, and an opportunity to bond and get to know each other better as a class. Throughout this post I will talk about how these promises were kept, and our experiences here at Loon Lake overall. Our driving question was, How do the choices we make set our future path?

At Loon Lake time was split up very precisely, divided between outdoors activities, eating, and lesions with Jono (About him) in the Canabode. The Canabode was a classroom like place were we would do the calm, focussed learning. This was hard for a lot of us because we would just come from running in the forest or being 50 feet in the air, to sitting or standing for up to 2.5 hours. Outside we would do new activities everyday, I think my favourite was probably the rock climbing wall, and the adventure race. Both of these activities made us get our hands dirty, and work together with people we might not normally work with.

At Loon Lake we learned many important lessons about our decisions, and how they impact people around us in positive and negative ways. One of the biggest ways they impact us is our future. We can change peoples life experiences in the present and the future just by some split second decision we make. We learned how to work toward only positive decisions. 

I think that the answer to the driving question in my opinion would be that the decisions we make impact people around us and the people around us impact us, so the most important lesson is make decisions that positively impact the closest people to us because they will set the path for our future.