Scouting

Good morning everyone!

Today I'm going to talk about a group activity I enjoyed a lot when I was a school girl. I joined the scouts when I was 10 years old. It was an activity that my mum used to do, so she took me there and she joined too, as a leader. First we participated of a group for about 1 year, but then it dissolved and we joined a group called "Genesis" and we stayed there 6 years until we moved out to Punta Arenas.
Genesis means begginning or origin, and this was literally a "Brand new scout group". So we came just in time for the foundation. I remember helping in the insignia design and creating the group's hymn.
We met every saturday's afternoon, since 3 pm to 6 pm. In this time we did different activities, such as learning about scout movement and history, playing team's games and dancing too. I joined the "compañía" directly, because I was too tall for my age, and soon I became the girl's leader, a tittle called "Guía de Guías". The "Compañía's name" was Millaray, and the patrol I first lead was called "Squirrel". We modify the Compañia's call and designed our patrol's insignia and banner.

The most important event was the summer camp, and we worked all year collecting money and supplies for that. Once in the camp, we had to work together as a team, in patrols. We assigned rols each other in order to divide the labors, such as cleaning, cooking, and picking up some firewood. These camps last about 15 days and we usually went in January, somewhere in the south of Chile.

Scouting was an important part of my life that I really enjoyed because I met beautiful people and I learnt very important things, in addition to trained my personality and leadership. I remember this time with love.