scouting/guides

[scott]

hello i would like to know if any one here is apart of the "scouting movement"
lol couldnt think of what else to say. also if there are any guides

[Cat-Eyes]

I'm a venturer scout in Victoria, Australia. (I think your SA means South Australia, but I'm not sure... )

Flit's a guide leader and she's the only one I can think of at the moment. I think Bun was a Brownie at some point...

Anyway, I've been in scouting for 11 years, I joined a week before I turned 6, and I'm still in the same group although when I was in cubs we did change our name. I was a PL at the 2004 Adelaide Jamboree and I'm going as a venturer to the one in Elmore in January. I'm a cub leader now, too.

So, what about you?

Cat

[Cookie Lover]

The only memories scouting brings back is a certain episode of the Goodies. Heh, gotta love that show.

[DragonMornir]

I was a brownie and i was guide, and stayed for the entireity of both lol! and i was a joey scout leader, still gots my uniform, havent officially left the movement but im not active at the moment!!! I

[Lauren Hedgehog]

I was a girl guide for a year, but my group was quite cat-y and hated the outdoors so I left. I wanted to go camping I did have fun though, and we slaughted the scouts next door at soccer frequently ;D

[Cat-Eyes]

Scouts go camping!! I mean, we don't do as much in Venturers as we did in Scouts because ultimately we are lazy and busy, but camping's fun!!

It really depends on the group and the leaders. I had some REALLY good leaders in scouts and they just made it awesome, but I know some groups just suck.

It's so much fun being a cub leader, they're so funny!

[scott]

i dislike cubs they hurt my back on joti lol now im wingeing lol yer sa = south australia and i noticed that as a venture i do less camping

i want to go to the jamborey but i cant be bothered with the what was it like $5000 to go any way piggy backs hurt and dont give a venture a piggy back lol u get hurt i fell down bye

[Kangaruth]

I was a Brownie from age 7, and then a Guide until I was 14, then a Young Leader (I don't know if you had them, it's a kind of junior leader. We didn't have enough interested girls my age for a Ranger Guide unit and I was too busy with school work to try for my Baden Powell Award, so I did that instead). I qualified as a Guider at 18, but then I left for uni, so I never actually got my own Brownie pack. I will one day, though, when I have more time. I miss it quite a lot.

[shinigami]

I'm a guide leader!

[Dragon]

Wow..so many.
I was a gumnut (i was in the first group established in my area), it was a group for girls to young to be brownies. I was a brownie for a fair while. I was there when we changed our name from brownies to Rainbow Guides (i hated that name), I was a patrol leader also. I then moved up to the Yandia guides and loved it. I was patrol leader for most of my time there and on my second Lady Stradbroke (sp) camp my patrol achieved a perfect score for camp set up, our string and wood creations (knots), food prep and other such things. It was unfortunate that our numbers diminished and when I got to year 12 i left so as to focus on my studies. I dont think my local Guides runs anymore. I really miss it.
I recall helping my Mum for a while, she was the Gumnut leader and I helped out to earn a badge. My favorite Guides moment...the sleep out in the Melbourne Zoo! *reminisces*

[Lix]

i was a gumnut, brownie then a guide but i could never make those funky gadgets so i gave up i kinda felt the pressure as a pl to teach the rest of the patrol how to do it and yeah i couldn't

[scott]

i was a pl for a while i had all ways wanted to be a pl boss ppl around do nothing being incharge is not fun
lol i never belived that i would get so many ppl repliying to my post

[guanette]

I'm a guide, but have been a joey and a cub. I'm also an assistant cub leader (for my gold duke of edinburgh) and enjoy it, even though we have a nasty group of nine year old boys... grrr...

[scott]

hahaha to bad "for my gold duke of edinburgh" i was thinking of going for my bronze and so forth but i lost my form (the school was running it) i didnt get another one (im so lazy) so i just didnt do it and i have just been on a hopper (a state wide joey camp my spelling sucks) as an activity leader so i was a volintear for like 48 hours and i was thinking the morning after the camp that if i had done the dukes thing i would be half done allready lol the camp i have to do and 48 hours of voliner work (sory for the spelling)

[Lucy]

Ooo, it was a long, long time ago, but I was once a Badger, which is sort of a guides/scouts equivalent but run by St John's Ambulance teams, so the activites are based around first aid and medical procedures rather than the outdoors and other hobbies. It was great; the girls got a "proper" nurses hat and the uniform was a white shirt with a black tabbard type affair with a St Joh'n Ambulance crest and badger on the breast. Looked quite sharp if my 9 year old self said so herself ;D
Aaahh, those were the days