Only for GIrl Scouts...

Being a part of Girl Scouts, is something great and really special. I am fortunate enough to have had my mom be a great troop leader. The 12 other girls that graduated high school with me and were in my troop, yeah, they were and still are my best friends. Girl Scouts has made such an impact on my life, that I am finding ways to give back to the Scouting community. One way I am doing so is becoming a troop leader for a daisy troop in my college's town. All the details aren't set in stone yet, but they will be soon.

My good friend Julie and I are all reregistered and ready to volunteer our time and our hearts to become a mentor, friend and troop leader to a group of younger girls. We contacted a membership person from the council down here to get information about leading a troop in the area. The woman e-mailed us back the other day and gave us a choice between 2 local schools in our area. It was up to us to decide which school we would start our troop at. Since neither of us are from the area, we had no idea what each of the schools were like let alone where the heck they were. After consulting MapQuest, we found that both schools are about a mile away from our dorms and would likely take us a half hour to walk to each school. Cold weather is quickly approaching, and I knew that we would not be smiling in the snow walking to our meetings to see our kindergartners. We decided it would be a good idea to try the public transportation system and find a bus to get us there.

Our meeting with the person from council is tomorrow and we had to let her know which school we wanted to be at before the meeting. So we decided that it would be a good idea to do a test run on the bus. When we walked out of our dorm, it wasn't raining too much. By the time we got to the bus stop a few blocks away, it started to rain some more... We got on the bus and were only a tad bit wet. Neither of us have ever been to this school, and we only had a general idea of where it was. The bus ventured through the slick busy streets, and I saw a street sign that looked familiar so I signaled for us to get off. Little did I know that it was the wrong street. At this point it was pouring rain, and we were walking through side streets looking for this elementary school, hoping that it was near by.

We eventually found it and had a look around. We did get some weird looks, but that was probably because 2 strange soaking wet teenagers are wandering around a grade school... The grade school was actually really cute and made me even more excited to get a troop going.

After a glance at our watches, we realized that we should start heading back if we wanted to catch the bus. So we forged the monsoon again, and found the busy street that the bus route was on. The traffic was being rude and wouldn't let us just J-Walk across the busy street, so we ventured down a block or two to the stop light. Finally we made it to the covered bus stop (which was fantastic because at this point we were SOAKED). After waiting for a half hour to 45 minutes, and seeing no bus... We called Julie's amazing friend and she gave us a ride back to our dorm.

Only for Girl Scouts will I forge a monsoon and go on an adventure to a grade school. I'm super excited to share a troop with Julie and I think we are gonna be awesome leaders. :)

Until next time,
Jenny