Seventh annual Delta Upsilon-Carthage College Alumni-Undergraduate Retreat
I got back early this afternoon from my first spring retreat as an alumni. It took a little getting used to not fully “participating” in the experience, and it was weird listening to the stories from the chapter. But I now fully understand the alumni position of “it’s not [my] chapter anymore.” Because it’s really not — it’s growing into something it couldn’t be when I was there, and that’s normal and good.
The weekend was great with one minor two hour glitch when carbon monoxide was pouring into the building from an unvented furnace in the nature center. It really was minor; the safety measures (CO alarms, fire department) worked great and I have to give a lot of credit to the Freeport Rural Fire Department for getting to the lodge approximately three minutes after we called — and that was the non-emergency number. And in the spirit of admitting I’m wrong, any doom-and-gloom scenarios going into the event were debunked within an hour of starting.
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Daniel Ross-Jones serves as Minister for Youth & Young Adults at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, United Church of Christ. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time still measured in months, he is frequently getting lost and discovering treasures of a landscape very different from his Upper Midwestern roots. Green Jello Hotdish is a blog exploring the intersections of his days. 
