By: Kaitlyn Zeedyk
The Fairview FFA Officer team held their annual officer retreat on June 19-20. We kicked it off at 8 o’clock in the morning of June 19 by getting our officer shirts and watching a clip from Toy Story as a Welcoming activity. After watching the clip we had to pick a character we were most alike with and write down our similarities. We did some other fun activities before we got to the “serious” stuff. But before that, we had $50 to spend to find lunch in one hour. The team and I quickly headed over to the Bryan Walmart in search of food. We came back with Hawaiian punch, hamburgers, baked beans, three bags of chips, donuts, cheese, buns, ketchup, bananas, apples, and $15. You could say we did okay in an hours time but what was the whole reason for this? We learned that when you are planning something in a short amount of time, you tend to forget something, like a pan to put the baked beans in, (we just grilled them in the can) or a spatula to flip the burgers, (lucky Ms. Nagel had one.) From this experiment we learned that we needed to listen to each others opinion and think things all the way through before running around our own way. One more thing about lunch, we had to eat it like an etiquette dinner because on Thursday we went out to eat at a fancy restaurant. After lunch we made our calendar for the upcoming year, community services, fundraisers, banquets, garden tractor pulls, pancake breakfast, and so much more. But before we made our calendar we had to come up with new and old ideas to make this next year loads of fun. To round out the night we ordered pizza and pop while finishing up. On Thursday morning we left the school at 6:30 and headed to the Ag Forum breakfast to listen to the speaker Jonathan McCracken who talked about the 2018 Farm Bill. After breakfast and pictures Tristan McGuire, our president, was asked to speak on Channel 13 ABC. So after letting him speak we toured the research facility and went to a local grocery store that had some of the products that we had seen at the facility on their shelves. After our shopping spree we went out to eat at an Italian restaurant. On the way home, instead of sleeping we practiced opening ceremony parts! Our officer retreat really brought us together and made us see how each of us handle different situations. Not only was it a learning experience, it was loads of fun!
