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SPRING 2012
GGEW NEWS
Guide BP Adventure at Thriftwood
hen you are a 13 or 14-year-old Guide just finishing your Baden-Powell
Challenge, going away to an event with people you don’t know is quite
a daunting prospect. When you are a Leader, running such an event
for 24 teenagers you have never met before it is equally daunting. Fortunately
the Guides who came on the Essex West Baden-Powell Winter Adventure at
Thriftwood in February were kind to us and were, without exception, willing to try
everything, join in, sleep in a room with people they didn’t know and muck in
with the washing up. Activities included team-building games, glass-engraving,
sculpting well-known landmarks out of spaghetti and marshmallows and making
chocolate cake in a mug. We couldn’t use the new ice-climbing wall as it hadn’t
received its safety certificate but the alternative Cresta Run was very popular.
At the feedback session the only complaints were that the beetle drive went on
too long and that the whole event was too short as they had just got to know
their new friends and then they had to say goodbye to them! I would like to
thank Sandra, Amy and Lizzie Graves for organising the catering and some of
the activities and Nicola Hopper for taking the session on Senior Section and
international opportunities.
Hilary Prollins Guide Adviser
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