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"My Bonding Retreat Experience"
by Felicia Jackson
I had a wonderful time during the cheerleading retreat. Everyone got
along and we all bonded and learned things about one another. Some
things we would have never thought! A couple of the other cheerleaders
and I made us a theme. It is "never let go!"
On the way to Nashville and back, there was a lot of checking and joke
telling going on. I even got my hair weave taken. I did not see
it again until Sunday morning when we were on our way to church.
We departed Memphis at 3 p.m. on Friday and arrived in Nashville at almost 6
p.m. We checked in our hotel and freshened up. Then, we were off
to the mall for our scavenger hunt. Of course, the group I was in won!
We were in groups of four and we went through the mall finding answers to
the questions given to us. One of the questions was to find someone in
the mall to take a picture with us. We took a picture with a boy whose
girlfriend was with him. She seemed mad until one of my group members
explained to her what we were doing.
After the scavenger hunt we went back to the hotel. Everyone in my
group was given a first place ribbon. We then ate and afterwards
played this fun trivia game. My team won again! With the first
place ribbon my group won, we got to be first at everything for the rest of
the weekend.
On Saturday morning, everyone got up and ate breakfast. After
breakfast, we went to a dance camp where we learned a few dances from two of
our coach's friends. We called one of them "Ciara's Mom" (Lavern)!
The first lady was pretty tough and the second lady was nice. I
screwed up the dance very well.
Later on, we ate dinner at Demos's, where we were joined by "Ciara's Mom"
(Lavern) and Eddie George. At the end of the dinner, Ms. Sabrina gave
everyone a medal, then we walked around downtown and also had a carriage
ride. Unbelievably, there were ten people on the carriage! One
of the ten thought she was "M-town's finest."
On Sunday morning, we prepared for church. That's when I was
given my hair back! We had a great service. After church we ate
lunch and went to the mall. When were were finished with lunch, the
people at my table and I went to the store. Ms. Sabrina came and
hunted us down because we didn't clean our table. We were coming out
of the store just as she was about to come in and embarrass us.
At the mall we bought gifts for our cheer sister and gave it to them
before we left. Then we headed back to Memphis and arrived at
approximately 8:22 p.m.
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