In class writing: Describing a trip

October 10, 2008, I went to Lake James in Angola, Indiana with Campus Crusade for Christ.  It was our Fall Retreat and we were going to be there until Sunday afternoon, October 12th.  Out of five girls in a car only one of us, our bible study leader, had been to Lake James Christian Academy.  As we pulled into the gravel driveway I got butterflies in my stomach.  When I got out of the car I could smell lake.  Do you know what lake smells like? Fish.  It's sounds extremely unpleasant, I know, but it wasn't.  The buildings around were all fairly old.  The "sanctuary" looked like a pole bar.  If you've been to a camp before, I'm sure you can imagine what a cabin looks like, there were a few sprinkled about on the grounds.  The "main hall" was a white brick building with three stories.  We walked in and you could smell the muskiness.  Through the foyer into the main community area, the back wall was nothing but huge, pane windows, for viewing the lake.  It was gorgeous.  There was a small island in the middle of the lake.  A small two story house sat upon it, the front faced the back of the Christian Academy.  I scanned the shore line around the lake and saw so many different colors of trees.  Different shades of orange, red, green, yellow, and brown.  After scanning the perimeter, the girls headed to the "dorm" rooms in the main hall and the boys went to the cabins outside.  The rooms were dark with tattered wood bunk beds.  Again, the musky smell was evident.  Later we went outside, behind the Academy.  A fire pit surrounded with several wooden benches was the focal point behind the Academy.  The weather was just right.  Warm enough to wear flip flops but cool enough to wear a sweater.  A crisp autumn breeze blew the entire weekend.