Girl Scouts
I remember when I was in grade school being a girl scout. I never really liked it (I competed in gymnastics nationally) and I was always missing events and I really didn't like to camp. But I do remember one year when we went to a different camp (it was with the boy scouts and looking back that's probably the only reason we liked it ha) and we had a blast.
I remember driving up and there were these huge water tanks all over that looked like giant pills. Our leaders told us to stay away from the rainwater tanks but when they weren't looking we would pretend we were on that magic school bus show and ride them and imagine that they were big pills and someone was sick (I know lame, right?).
But when we finally got settled into camp we found out we had cleaning ladies (ok so it was kind of like camping, more like renting a cabin) so we were excited that we didn't have to have a chore sheet like we usually did (we hated the way our leader was a creepy neat freak, she would make us wash and rewash everything over and over until it was perfect). She would even have these old shipping containers that we would keep our cleaning supplies in and she drew smiley faces all over them (she was weird) so you can see why we were happy to have people cleaning up after us.
So instead of doing chores and learning things about wilderness we got to decide what we wanted to do. We hung out with the guys (of course we chose to do that ha) and we read ghost stories and roasted marshmallows and at the end of the weekend (after having such a great time) we found out that we got our friendship badge. I wish though that all of the badges could have been that easy.
I ended up leaving girl scouts a few months later (even though I was the highest cookie seller) and I am really glad that I left at a time where I had so much fun. At the time, I thought that everyone was doing girl scouts and I figured even if I didn't like it I should stick with it, but later on I realized that so many people didn't do it and that I was normal for hating it ha.
Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 @ 7:48 PM by Brian