How to Say It's Not What You Think

I went on a silent meditation retreat for five days. Most people said to me, you did what? Yeah, I want to silent meditation retreat in Oxford. And the answer is, of course, they have no idea. How do you convey that? Well, there's an obvious way. That's why number one. The best I could do after it was over was to say, when it was over, I felt like I'd seen Les Mis for the first time. If you've seen Les Mis and you liked it, it doesn't really work because you probably say to yourself, you're not going to talk at being silent for five days,. But that's what it felt like