Camping in College! :D

Hellooooo Girl Scouts!

I just wanted to give you all a quick update and some words of encouragement!
I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the new school year!

To all of the Gold Girls and perspective Gold Girls out there-work hard and stick with it! All the hard work is going to pay off!

I've actually met quite a few Gold Girls in my dorm and at my school...

Sooo next weekend I will be participating in one of my favorite Girl Scout activities...CAMPING!

The Honors program at my college is taking a small group of students into the wilderness for a weekend (did you know that you can actually get a college minor in outdoor leisure activities!?).

I'm really excited! We're going to go backpacking up in the Cayuga region of New York! The College is going to supply us with backpacks and sleeping bags and the like...and I can't wait to show everyone what a Girl Scout can do!

Pic from: http://www.contactez.net/gurleyalabama/girlsscoutsgurley.html

One of my best friends attending the trip is an Eagle Scout (The Boy Scout equivalent of the Gold Award), so I'm interested to see who'll be the better wilderness camper! It'll be fun to learn what BSA does differently from GSA! :D

If your troop ever has an opportunity to go camping-please go! You'll really enjoy it :) Girl Scouts taught me TONS about camping. I can cook outside, start campfires, build shelters with twigs and greenery, identify star patterns and (of course!) make s'mores!

pic from: http://postcardy.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html

Back in the summer before eighth grade, I went to a Girl Scout sleep away camp-Camp BlueBay-for a week with a group of my friends.

The camp was soooo much fun! We learned how to canoe, how to survive in the wilderness, how to use a compass and tons of other useful skills that I still use today :) We slept in platform tents and swam in a really pretty lake (the only drawback to sleeping in the tents was the morning wake-up call...if you didn't get out of bed the counselors would threaten to squirt you with a water-blaster which was hilarious). :)

Camp BlueBay Link: http://www.gsnc.org/camp/bluebay.asp

Stay Tuned-in for an update about my camping experience next week! Hopefully it won't rain and I'll have tons of awesome stories to tell you all when I get back! :D

~Gold Girl Allie :)