Even though this is a funded troop, these girls have great enthusiasm for learning and for trying new things. While going through the Girl Scout Way badge requirements, they learned a lot about girl scout traditions, and even a new song (from waaaaaayyy back in the 1970s!). Last week, we celebrated Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low's birthday - ok, it was a day late. We also started an exciting new connection with some Lehigh University students who were former girl scouts before they came to college. They met with the troop to talk about their favorite parts of Girl Scouting - which of course, gave the troop some more ideas! On one meeting, it was a really nice day outside. Since we meeting in the church basement, the kids needed to walk out some of their energy so they wouldn't disturb the parishoners praying. We only needed to walk for a block to find a community garden that we decided to work on this year with the school's 8th grade teacher. Finally, they learned about a Girl Scout tradition called a "swap." We started to make loom bracelets to give to each other or to the Lehigh University students as a gift for coming to our meetings and maybe helping us out this year.
We won't be meeting this Friday, November 8th, because our troop leader is in Harrisburg. But she went to Girl Scout cookie training and had lots of information to share with us when we get closer to the cookie sale time.
We meet next on Friday, November 15th when we can get started on the Journey badge!
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