Two days from now will be my last first day in high school, that's right I'm going to be a senior! And am I looking forward to school at the moment? No, I'm pretty much just looking forward to the first couple of weekends. This next weekend my troop and I are putting on a Dove workshop for our Journey project (the other prerequisite to the Gold Award). During this project we will be teaching girls of all ages about true beauty. I'm pretty excited to help girls build self esteem and realize that social pressures and media pressures shouldn't control them. Being a typical teenage girl I have also struggled with this: confidence issues, eating disorders, bullying, warped self image, peer pressure, and at this moment I feel like I've gotten through it all and found myself as much as I can, which makes me want to help all girls even more.
The second weekend of the school year will be one of the weekends that we go to Camp Mary White to work on our Gold Award projects. Since this summer has been really dry and full of forest closures and wild fires, camp got cancelled. This was not only sad for us to hear (tragic, really. It's hard to hear that you don't get to go to your favorite place in the world), but it was also a "well, what about our gold award projects??" moment for all of us. But alas, we get to go to camp for a couple weekends during the school year! The first weekend we will have about 30 members of Friends of Camp Mary White coming to help us solely on our projects...it's absolutely amazing, I love them! The other weekend we'll be going up there will just be our troop working our little butts off, which will be super excellent!
So here goes another year of high school and another year of girl scouts. Hopefully it'll be the best so far! :)
~Runner
