2011 Stories
These stories appear by month in which they were put onto the website, starting at the most recent month at the top of the page.
August 2011
Maori Language Week at Mangere
Mangere
Bridge Brownies were lucky to have three lovely local Maori women to
come and do the Maoritanga badge. First, they told the girls all about
harakeke and the rules around working with it. They also told us that
you have to give your first piece away.
The girls then got into
the weaving and did not want to stop making flower after flower. Next
thing we knew our parents were coming to pick us up. We finished the
night with Taps in Maori of course.
June 2011
Howick District's Camp Bedrock
Over
80 girls took a step back in time to attend ‘Camp Bedrock’ in early
April 2011. A weekend of ‘stone age’ themed activities ensured everyone
had a ‘yabba dabba doo’ time!
Every section got the chance to get
involved in some prehistoric activities. The Pippins and Brownies made
memory books, created Fred’s car, and followed compass trails, the
Guides covered clauses to complete their Adventure Outdoors and the
Rangers laid trails and made scarves.
At
7am on Saturday most were on the top field ready to dance their way
through ‘dino-robics’. Some of the leaders’ outfits were certainly
interesting to say the least (including some luminous lime green
shorts!). They certainly put a smile on the girls’ faces, that’s for
sure!
After morning tea we packed our day packs and set off on a
small hike with the objective of identifying five interesting things
along the way that they could share with their sections over lunch.
Everyone took part in dino-olympics in the afternoon which consisted of a
round robin of fun activities with the overall winners being awarded
some chocolate pebbles!
No
camp would be complete without a roaring camp fire, some uplifting
songs and toasted marshmallows sandwiched between mini Guide biscuits.
The
camp ended with a traditional horseshoe where we had a Brownie `booting
out’ a Leader enrolment, singing taps everyone departed saying their
goodbyes to their modern stone age family.
This story cannot be
complete without acknowledging the courage and strength of those camping
in the Burgin field that scaled ‘Mt Otimai’ several times a day. Well
done girls!
Kerrie Evans
Guide Leader - Uxbridge Guides
