Friday's Brain
Saturday, August 28, 2004
For all of you who occasionally miss sleeping under mosquito netting...
Hmm. Check out the Free Lance Star's article about Camp Kittamaqund. When I was living in Fredericksburg, it was difficult enough to get them to submit a blurb about a local scout receiving her Gold Award, and now they're printing whole articles about summer camp. I'm pretty pleased to see it.
Incidentally, and on a somewhat related note, why in the world has GSUSA decided that 14-17 year old girls can no longer have a name that classifies them within the organization. This years catalog simply referred to them as "Girls 14-17," and now the website is referring to them as "Studio 2B." I have to say that I'm not fond of the removal of the words "Girl Scout" from their online presence for that age group. What's up with that? So I understand that it's not exactly "cool" to be a Girl Scout, but somehow I just can't back the solution to that problem being removing the name from the group. Maybe I'm not looking at it from the right perspective.
Incidentally, and on a somewhat related note, why in the world has GSUSA decided that 14-17 year old girls can no longer have a name that classifies them within the organization. This years catalog simply referred to them as "Girls 14-17," and now the website is referring to them as "Studio 2B." I have to say that I'm not fond of the removal of the words "Girl Scout" from their online presence for that age group. What's up with that? So I understand that it's not exactly "cool" to be a Girl Scout, but somehow I just can't back the solution to that problem being removing the name from the group. Maybe I'm not looking at it from the right perspective.
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Funny you should mention it -- I made a big project of finding my mosquito net before heading out to CK as a trainer for leaders this weekend (Outdoor Training Level 3), but all the other campers said they were fine without it. Maybe mosquitoes die back from staff training week numbers. It may be psychological: mosquitoes buzzing in my ears kept me up one or two nights 20 years ago, and I think I need it every time I go out there in summer weather. So, I way slept better in SH tent 1 than I did in a pitched tent at Westmoreland State Park (with my friend and her boys) the night before, because I knew I would. . . .
It was a great training, with all but one of the women repeatedly saying, I can't wait to show this to my girls. They are very ready to bring wonders of nature and camping to kids. Three or four were moms of summer campers, thrilled to see Camp the way their daughters do; one 44-year-old camped at CK when it was new and remembered swimming in the lake and the green amphitheater behind the DH. And Skimino girl / counselor (c. 1989) "Mouse" loved CK right away.
It was a great training, with all but one of the women repeatedly saying, I can't wait to show this to my girls. They are very ready to bring wonders of nature and camping to kids. Three or four were moms of summer campers, thrilled to see Camp the way their daughters do; one 44-year-old camped at CK when it was new and remembered swimming in the lake and the green amphitheater behind the DH. And Skimino girl / counselor (c. 1989) "Mouse" loved CK right away.
Funny you shouls mention it -- I made a big project of finding my mosquito net before heading out to CK as a trainer for leaders this weekend (Outdoor Training Level 3), but all the other campers said they were fine without it. Maybe mosquitoes die back from staff training week numbers. It may be psychological: mosquitoes buzzing in my ears kept me up one or two nights 20 years ago, and I think I need it every time I go out there in summer weather. So, I way slept better in SH tent 1 than I did in a pitched tent at Westmoreland State Park (with my friend and her boys) the night before, because I knew I would. . . .
It was a great training, with all but one of the women repeatedly saying, I can't wait to show this to my girls. They are very ready to bring wonders of nature and camping to kids. Three or four were moms of summer campers, thrilled to see Camp the way their daughters do; one 44-year-old camped at CK when it was new and remembered swimming in the lake and the green ampitheater behind the DH. And Skimino girl / counselor (c. 1989) "Mouse" loved CK right away.
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It was a great training, with all but one of the women repeatedly saying, I can't wait to show this to my girls. They are very ready to bring wonders of nature and camping to kids. Three or four were moms of summer campers, thrilled to see Camp the way their daughters do; one 44-year-old camped at CK when it was new and remembered swimming in the lake and the green ampitheater behind the DH. And Skimino girl / counselor (c. 1989) "Mouse" loved CK right away.
