Guides/Scouts etc

[Forget-Me-Not]

Just wondering if anyone else is/was involved in Guiding/Scouting.

I'm an Assistant Brownie Guider and Assistant Guide Guider, having been a Brownie and a Guide and a Young Leader.

I LOVE being involved in Guiding and sometimes it's helped me take positive steps - like going to Burger King with some of my Brownies at the weekend and managing to eat an entire Kid's Meal!

D'neir felt til?

[Isabel_Knight]

I used to be a Brownie... with those yucky brown coulottes and yellow sweatshirt :ummm

I was a seconder in the :wandPixie:wand six. I got promoted to sixer for a while, but wasn't very good at it really. I didn't really know how to take initiative at that age.

Then I went to Guides and had one of those groovy red necker-chiefs with a woggle! (Isn't that just the coolest word?! :sarcasm). I had to stop after a term though, 'cos I had too much homework. :ugh

Isabel :pinkfishy

[rowgirl]

I was a Girl Scout for a few years in middle school and elementary school. Never found it that interesting. Although the cookies were yummy :happy

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:hugon Miranda :hugoff
Woggle is SOOOO the coolest word. One of my Brownies loves the word so much she almost uses it as a kind of mantra.

:hugon Allie :hugoff
Sadly in the UK we don't do the cookie thing. A mistake, if you ask me...

[kathy_jellybean]

Hiya,
Im from australia and I have been involved in guiding for Ten years this year!! wohoo go me! (been going since i was six, and im sixteen now)

I was a brownie, then a guide and I am now a ranger guide and I love it soo much.

Unfortunatly I find it hard to go out for meals with them (e.g maccas) but they look after me.

te he Woggle!! That is a cool word huh.

What has everyone got planned for guiding this year?

[urbanfaerie]

I was a Brownie, then a Junior and a Cadet until Seventh Grade. My mom was the leader. :winky

It was a great time. We did LOTS of crafts and life skills...though Mom always did winter camping so we could use the lodge...we do not "rough it". :cheesy

But we DID take the train to the State Capitol to see how the government works.

:love
Heather

[Forget-Me-Not]

:hugon kathy_jellybean :hugoff
:hugon heather :hugoff

Cool... I once went to Downing Street with my Guides and got to see round the PMs house!

Kathy_jellybean if you ever want to email me about Guiding stuff, feel free!

[geekygirl]

I was totally in Giuding!! I loved it. Maybe a little too much. I thought Brownies was kinda scary though. But I was just shy. I remember begging my mom not to make me go, but whenever I got home after I'd be so happy that I went cause I had so much fun.

I was such a keener when I got to giudes. I swear, I had almost every badge. I had so many I had to get a second sash thing so that I could sew all of them on. I was so obsessed with getting badges.

I even made it to Pathfinders. I was still a huge keener. I got my Canada Cord in just two years (usually it takes three). It was pretty muc hteh biggest thing you could get in Pathfinders. I missed out on the big ceremony though, cause we moved. But it was still cool.

I met my best friend in guiding. It's a great place to meet all kinds of new people and experience new things. Last year I met up with a girl I was in Guides with, five years ago and half way across the country, it's crazy. It's such a small world.

~Heather~ :canada

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:hugon Heather :hugoff

Am duly impressed by Guiding Prowess!

[soma-UK]

I was never a :clover Girl Scout :clover,

But I was a Girl Scouts camp couselor in Colorado :xmas for three Summers and :love loved it (except for the times I had to leave half-way though my jobs because of my ed :ugh) !

My Camp Couselor "Name" was Dickens .

It was fun being paid to ride horses (Where is the "horse" smilie?) and hike/camp in the Rocky Mountains all Summer :sun.

[ZigZag]

Hey! I used to be a Rainbow Guide!

But there's no rainbow smilie :ummm

Zoe x

[lilsweetie]

I did all of it.
sparks
brownies
guides
pathfinders.

I used to volunteer with a brownie group, but then i felt like a hypocrite because I'm leading a bunch of young girls toward a healthy lifestyle when I don't lead one myself.

[Forget-Me-Not]

:hugon soma-UK :hugoff
That sounds SOOOOO cool!

:hugon Zoe :hugoff
I didn't get to be a Rainbow *sigh*

:hugon lilsweetie :hugoff
I know what you mean about feeling hypocritical... I feel that a lot. Also that if my ed/si behaviours were discovered it would have a hugely negative impact on the girls I work with.
However, the three Guiders who kow about my ed and si have been very supportive and don't want me to give up Guiding. They encourage me to see that there is more to me that ED/SI and that I am making a positive contribution to other people's lives.

Much :love to you all

[ZigZag]

:gimmehug Forget-Me-Not:gimmehug

Aw, how come?

Zoe :butterfly

[Anonymous_Member006]

I think FMN, is that bit older (like me)
:rainbows werent around when we were that age (:winky : rainbow)

My mum and aunt were/are both Queens Guides...i think my mum was the youngest to be awarded that or something....They ran their own pack from an early age....for a loooong time. until mum they gave up about ten years ago.

:yay Assoc. of guiding.

When we were in Washington DC when I was aged ?eight? we met a girl scout who was selling cookies....and she was a famous girl scout coz shed sold the most cookies and got to meet the president!!!!

:supergrin

[ZigZag]

:gimmehug andysangel :gimmehug

Woo hoo! So there is a :rainbow after all. How come it's not on the list?

Zoe x

[Anonymous_Member006]

hi Zoe, u sound like me when i started i had no clue how to do formatting etc for years!

not all the pics r on the list. if u ever want to know wot another pics code is

like many things in life there is more than one way of doing it

either
a) position ur mouse over the pic and right click and select properties, it will pop up a grey box and it will say somewhere near the top blahablah.gif therefore the code for that pic would be :blahablah (this isnt always the case)

b) click on reply with quote (next to edit) and look thru that and ull see wots been written so ull know the code that way.

Have a look at the smilie fairy story, that introduces most of the characters!

:love charley

[J!]

Hehe, I love this post!

I started brownies on my seventh birthday which is erm... over eleven years ago now. WOW! If im honest, my brownie group was a bit rubbish and we didnt do much at all apart from the handbook thingy. We never really did badges or anything. But I stuck around simply because the guide group attached to it was the best in the district.

Anyway, I went to guides from like the age of ten till i was about fourteen and loved it!!!!!!!!!! although where I loive it is not cool to be a guide so i never told anyone about it at school... I was a bit embarassed We did loadsa stuff... camping twice a year at least - two weeks at an activity site where u could do all sorts of outdoor pursuits and worked in patrols to do the chores etc - and a long bankholiday weekend in may where you have to try and camp fairly independently and light your own fires to cook your own meals etc. we did heaps of badges and I got all the trefoils (yup i was keen-bean) and started working for the baden-powell award thingy but then moved to rangers so never finished it. and we did badges and even went to austria camping for ten days when i was tweleve!!!

I went to rangers when I was fourteen and to be honest wasnt so keen on it... but that was coz me and my group of friends were the youngest and didnt really get much say compared to the older girls (some of whom were like twenty). i only stayed for about six months coz i moved house...lost contact with most of my oldest friends who I'd know since brownies :sad

Anyway, i found out about six onths ago that the ranger group had moved coz if ongoing disagreements between the ranger leader and the brownie and scout leader. Now its much nearer to me so i started going again in october and am sooooooooo happy i did! i have fit right back in with my old friends and the leader is even nicer than i rememebered (prob coz she only has the stress of rangers not the guides.... our guide group was HUGE... with like forty girls and a waiting list!!!). It's such a laugh. we only meet once a fortnite but its such a laugh and gets me out of the house and socialising again lol. In may we are going to disneyland paris then a few weeks later camping over half term break. Plus in a couple of weeks our ranger leader celebrates her twenty-year service to guiding as a leader and we r having a party! It def gives me lots to look forward to!!!!
:hugon Guiding :hugoff

hehe, just realised how long this post has got! sorry im rambling.

anyway cool post forget-me-not!!!

Ooh... and i have some pics of me guide/ranger group camping trips etc (although they are a bit old) on my photo page. Take a look if u fancy but :trigger just in case coz theres lots of pictures of lots of ppl on the page. The addy is at the bottom in my sig.

Loadsa Luv
Jo
XxX

[outspoken_poet]

i was a scout for thirteen years (kindergarten through grade twelve), and even got my gold award (the highest award in scouting).

:yay for scouting :fishys!!

:love
christy

[Forget-Me-Not]

:hugon zoe :hugoff
there weren't any Rainbows near me, though I remember watching the Blue Peter when Rainbows were launched and being DESPERATE to join!

:hugon charley :hugoff
I want to start my Queen's... my friend who's a Ranger Guider keeps encouraging me to...

:hugon Jo :hugoff
That is WELL cool! I would :love to be a Ranger but the Rangers near me is awful and the Guider's evil and all the others seem to meet on Fridays when I have Brownies and Guides... *sigh* On the plus side I'm going to Switzerland with a Ranger Unit from my county this summer so I'll get to visit Our Chalet!!!

:hugon christy :hugoff
Take a bow! I am applauding!

I'm off to Waddow (the Training and Activities Centre in Lancashire) for three months on Sat... Very nervous but ready to face the challenge... Maybe...

Much :love

[bezzelrock]

hey i used to be in the rainbows and brownies but then it all went wrong in the guides and i was chucked out. Shame cos i really enjoyed it........ maybe too much!

[J!]

hey guys
just got back from rangers about a half hour ago
had a good time, despite the DofE man having to cancel coz of an accident and traffic etc
but we got out new shed so we did some rummaging through boxes trying to decided wots for storage and wots for keeping in the centre and we found a box with all the old videos from camps and the photos. was sooooooooo cool.
although im the newest offically (coz i left for a couple of years and then came back) it was cool for all the girls who only joined once the ranger group separated from brownies and guides to see wot we used to get up too... and it was cool to re-live camp in austria and all the stories ppl had etc and seeing me and my close friends (who are the oldest at the mo at eighteen) trying to light a fire on our first camp aged ten!!! we were useless. and all the clips from our first crushes on the scouts at camp :sarcasm it was soooo cool!!!

anyway, the big point of this post was to say that now ive been back at rangers for a couple fo months im getting enrolled.
getting enrolled as a ranger at our group has always been a HUGE deal and is always made a fuss of and done in a special place...
for me its gonna be at................ da-da-daaaaaaaa.........


DISNEYLAND PARIS!!!!!!!!!


Im so excited (have to wait till may tho)!

are u guys doing anything special for 'thinking day' in a couple of weeks?
im missing out on the festivities unfortunately... im in manchester till the friday and working the sunday and my ranger group r doing a three day *cough* indoor *cough* camp over that weekend and having three day party lol
annoyed im missing out but its tradition on thinking day party weekend for my ranger group to have takeaway on friday and saturday nite which prob would have been a adisaster with me anyway :sarcasm

ooh, and before i go... just wondering if any of you had checked out the guiding webpage. this post made me take a peek. quite informative really. and theres a pick of some of our rangers on it (but not me)

anyway
im off
take care
nitenite
Loadsa Luv
Jo
XXX

[Forget-Me-Not]

:hugon bezzelrock :hugoff
they're not really meant to chuck ppl out you know... not a vg way of dealing with things...
another crap way of dealing with things is for a Guider in her late twenties to make up lies about her sixteen year old YL to get rid of her, the real reasons for which have never become clear, although theories abound...

:hugon Jo :hugoff
Wow! That's SOOOOOOOO cool! Let us know how the enrollment goes! I made my Promise as an Adult Guider at Southwark cathedral after the Catholic Guide Guild Mass, with my Brownies and Guides and the Region Comm watching while my County Comm enrolled me. Was v cool as had the Unit Flags and County and Region Standards up and everything, and my two best friends and my little sister were there!
I'll be at Waddow for Thinking Day, cos I'm working there as a House Assistant from Feb til April.
Love the Guiding Webpage - when you open it the Thinking Day pic is actually from Ma-Buyu and I know one of the ppl in it! Yay!

I am doing my Brownie Holiday Licence this summer and am very very nervous! Eep. I met my mentor last night, and there's so much to do it's scary...

[seniorpride]

I can't believe I missed this post! :surprise

I was a Brownie and a Junior Girl Scout in elementary school, but our troop kind of fell apart when we entered middle school. It was fun for the five years we were all together though! The cookie sales were one of my favorite parts. :winky I loved Girl Scouts! :yay My mom was the leader for my troop and for my younger sister's troop, so our family has been in it for quite a few years! (My younger bro and dad are in Boy Scouts - don't ask me what rank my bro is, lol - and have been for years also. I think my dad was an Eagle Scout back in the day?) Anyway, Girl Scouts is an awesome organization! :supergrin

[Berrie]

I'm an Aussie, so girls can either do Brownies/guides (with just girls) or cubs/scout with boys and girls.
So I was a cub scout from ages eight- eleven, I was a Sixer and I got my Yellow Cord (highest Australian Cub Award)
and a Scout from ages eleven - fifteen, where I got my Blue Cord (which is the second highest cord a scout can get)
I was a PL, and when we went on Jamboree I was a Jamborree PL :cheesy
But I dropped out at fifteen, I wanted to do Venturers, but it just took up too much time.

[Taryn]

Great post :grin

I've been in Guiding since I was seven. I've been a brownie, a guide, a young leader and I'm now an assistant Guide Guider. I :love it, it gives me a sense of satisfaction. I'm one of these people who finds guiding taking over my weekends as I'm always volunteering for things. I was a brownie in the last few years of that awful brown dress :ugh . Last summer I was accepted to work at Blackland Farm for the whole summer but had to drop out at the last minute when I got too sick to go - it really upset me and made me hate this damn ED even more :mad .
:hugon forget me not :hugon :clover for your time at Waddow, I'm sure you'll love it. Next year I intend to be well enough to work at Blackland.

If any guiding :fishy s want to email me I'd love to hear from you:
ickle_star**@yahoo.co.uk (**is twenty-two)

[vix]

I used to be a scout (In UK) then I went to Venture Scouts but when things got bad with my ED I had to leave. I used to love scouts but at venture's it was horrible if you didn't drink (most of us were underage) then you were on the outside of the group. It made me feel very lonely being there.

Vix

[J!]

hey guys :hugon :bowl :hugoff

just thought i'd let you all know i got enrolled as a ranger-guide on saturday at disneyland paris.

we went for a bankholiday weekend trip to paris and went to disneyland and universal studios and saw the sites in the city.

was a really good weekend and was just that bit more special coz two of us got enrolled (my friend got enrolled under the eiffel tower)

if anyones interested, i put the pics of the trip and my enrollement on my photo page...

http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/j_fairy_uk

:trigger just in case coz there are loadsa pic of loadsa diff ppl.

take care
Loadsa Luv
Jo
XxX

[Forget-Me-Not]

:hugon seniorpride :hugoff
again, with my cookie-centric jealousy!

:hugon Berrie :hugoff
sounds cool... girls can be Beavers/Cubs/Scouts etc here too

:hugon Taryn :hugoff
that's a shame about Blacklands... are you from LaSER by any chance??? Waddow was not actually too great :ugh :ugh :cry :ugh :ugh but i still love the volunteering bits! seeing my Brownies and Guides on Friday: yay!

:hugon Vix :hugoff
sorry to hear you felt so isolated

:hugon J! :hugoff
congratulations! that is so, so cool! i will look at those pics at some stage... i am still working on my sad state of not-being-a-Ranger-but-wanting-to-be-a-lot... went on a Ranger overnight on Friday though and had lots of fun (apart from collapsing in Hamleys on the Saturday, which was less fun and very embarrassing, even though the Guiders in charge were really nice about it...)

Much :love to you all

[L@UK]

:hugon :bowl :hugoff

Ooh Ooh!!

I was a :rainbow when i was little, and love it!! I remember getting my rainbows badge, and feeling really proud, when i put it on my brownie sash, as not everyone had been to rainbows :happy

Ugh... werent the uniforms foul though? Kinda a dirty green colour with mustard yellow- not attractive! Although i remember feeling so very important walking through town to the church hall where we met every week! :supergrin

I had such an amazing time at Brownies, except when i fell over playing ''Brownie Limbo'' (did anyone else play that, or was it just us? You had to jump OVER a stick, instead of going under it, like normal limbo)

Anyway... this one girl who i really didnt like, was yelling at me to jump over the stick, even though i knew i wouldnt make it (and i didnt want to scuff my new white sandals!!) So i thought id do it.

I tripped over the stick, whacking my elbow on the wooden floor, and fractured it. The doctors told me that i was so close to having one of those massive great bolts shoved through my arm.

Lol.. so that kinda put me off a bit. Although my Brown Owl came to see me when i was recovering, and brought me some presents!! :love

Aww the memories... never made it to guides though. I was pretty much traumatised by the brownie limbo experience!!

[Forget-Me-Not]

:hugon Louise :hugoff

That sounds like a rather dangerous game!!!!!!! Not one I would let my Brownies play.

[Forget-Me-Not]

I am off to Innovate! (the forum for young women) this weekend. It's in Edinburgh this year, which means a LONG train journey - with a total stranger... Eep.

All a bit scary-bananas...

As is the fact that I am doing my Pack Holiday Licence at the end of the summer: with the theme of Harry Potter. Just hope my Brownies have a magical (groan) time!

[fetskoli]

I was a Brownie and Junior scout, and I still buy the cookies. Thin Mints were always my favorite. Hey, where did last year's cinnamon apple cookies go??? They were quite good!!!

[Forget-Me-Not]

:hugon Lisa :hugoff

someone REALLY ought to suggest to GirlguidingUK that we start selling delicious cookies... mmm...