Adventures in Girl Scouting

Things I learned at Girl Scout Camp

I haven’t written in several weeks because I’ve been so busy with Girl Scout Camp!  I volunteered to be a unit leader at 2 different camps, and aside from the sheer exhaustion following the experience, I learned some definite lessons. During the overnight, you need more food than you think you need.   I found that the meals provided by organizers fell way short of myself and the capability of my little plague of locusts,

Girl Scout Crazy!

  Like most other Girl Scout leaders out there (and I am not talking about our heroes, those leaders who came to scouting because they just WANTED to), I became a Girl Scout leader because there was no one else. The nice lady from our service unit essentially explained to me, “Well, if you want a troop you can have a troop! You just have to lead a troop.” Accompanied by the very famous “It