CU Gold

At the end of January, I had applied to do CU Gold, a leadership program run by CU that involves once a week meetings and a retreat in Estes Park. My roommate Susanna had completed the program last semester and said it was pretty fun, so I decided to give it a try.

The resulting retreat was an amazing experience- I had so much fun! Nobody had met before we started up to Estes, so on the bus ride up everyone was sort of silent and awkward. We were randomly assigned roommates and spent Friday evening playing name games (the usual stuff) and going over what the program was about. Saturday was spend going over what leadership is, what our "personal styles" were and some other activities. One of the most interesting things we did was a values exercise- we had to write our top ten values and then discuss them with random individuals, which really helped the group to get to know each other. We had to eliminate values until we had our "top" one which turned out to be meaningful for everybody.

In conclusion, even though this may sound like junior high all over again, it's actually extremely fun to just go hang out in the mountains with a bunch of college kids. It was also a really great way to meet more upperclassmen and I feel like I left with 30 new friends. :-) Hooray! I need to get pictures from some of the facilitators and then I will post them asap.