Experiences as a Leader No Comments 
journeys, juniors, troop 2562
Today, we finished the aMUSE Journey that we started back during the Junior Journey Weekend from last October. FINALLY. WE FINALLY FINISHED. THANK YOU LORD. ::weeps tears of joy:: It was as if I could hear angels singing somewhere in the distance:
Opinions 4 Comments camping, comics, girl led, gsusa, leader issues, outdoors, samona, strongly worded letter, volunteers
Lately I’ve been doing my fair share of GSUSA bashing. But if you hang around me long enough, you’ll know that I am a huge proponent of Scouting. Sure, there are some things that I don’t like about the way things are going, but I still feel there’s value in it, and I’m hopeful that one day it’ll get back on track. I sincerely do what I can to try to “right the ship” if you will. Maybe not successfully, and I might even end up tipping the boat over, thereby dumping everyone out, but it is not my intention to do so.
It seems like Girl Scout bashing in the media has been the “in” thing for the past few years. Some of it is self-inflicted, sure, but some of it is just jumping on the bandwagon in my opinion.
In this case, it’s the article from this past October by Rachel Zurer called “How The Girl Scouts Failed Me.” It appears on the Backpacker website, which I’m assuming is an outdoor magazine or website. I know you are in awe of my powers of deduction. Samona posted this link on my Facebook wall back when it was first published and asked for my opinion. I’m finally getting around to it. Just a warning – I’m going to jump around the article, so quotes won’t necessarily be in order. I also start off by raking the author over the coals, but in the end I soften up. Consider this a strongly worded blog post. As opposed to a strongly worded letter. Continue reading
Experiences as a Leader No Comments cookies, leader issues
We interrupt this program for a brief announcement:
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Ideas No Comments daisies, girl led, juniors, service unit, squirrel, swaps, troop 2562, world thinking day
Our service unit held its annual Thinking Day event last month, and this year’s theme was States. I opened up the fifty states to the Juniors and asked them to come up with their top three choices to turn in. California was their number one, and it hadn’t been claimed by another troop. When we got down to business after the break, all five of them claimed they didn’t choose California. I asked which one they picked, and they each named a different state. Good thing I had taken a picture of their list that they had originally written on the whiteboard. I showed them the picture but they still looked at me like they didn’t believe it. I’m not sure what that was all about except maybe their brains rotted out over the break. I had already submitted California as our choice, so we couldn’t have changed it at that point anyway. Continue reading
National Governance, National Operations, Opinions 2 Comments da-nice, gsusa, membership dues, national board, OFFICIAL scarf, volunteers
To get right to the point, I seem to be continuously amazed, shocked and flabbergasted at how seemingly inept the National Board and GSUSA are when it comes to managing public relations with its volunteers. It is as if they don’t realize that ticking off people that your job depends upon is probably not the best idea. I really don’t get it. I’d love to sit down with some of them and just pick their brain to see where on earth they are coming from. But then I’d probably get escorted out by security, and who wants that? No one except Da-nice, who said she would love to take a picture of that event and post it all over Facebook.
In case you don’t know what I’m babbling about, here’s the latest from GSUSA (via a newsletter from the Historic Georgia council): Continue reading
Random Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else Kinda Like Me 1 Comment patches, random patch of the day, squirrel
I lost track of what number this is. The third or fourth installment or something. Anyway, I was looking for some Healthy Living patches and came across this one:
What? I first thought maybe it was related to the Hunger Games, but after looking closer, there’s a box of food, so obviously it has to do with the homeless or those in need. Please note – I am NOT making fun of the less fortunate. I seriously want to know how you “simulate” hunger. Make the girls not eat for two days? Congrats, here’s a fasting patch! I just think of flights when I hear the word simulation. Remember that Microsoft flight simulator game? It always locked up on me, so I never really got to play with it. Oh well. Here’s 37 minutes of flight simulators. SQUIRREL!
So really, if you know what this patch is all about, let me know in the comment section.