Progress in exciting times!

Hi guys and girls! I've just come in from helping with Guides, we were making friendship bracelets, and it reminded me about all of the amazing new people I'm going to meet at GMC2010, as well as the great gang we're going with!

You might be aware by now that this has gone up on the official GMC2010 website for y'all to vote on!

I thought I'd let you know on a new post that I'm going to try and update this as soon as I get more information about how we're all getting prepared for the camp! So that'll be quite frequently... as it just keeps running through my mind at every spare moment I have, and I can't help but just grin with excitement!

We'll be travelling to the camp on the 8th July and dunndunndunnn! I'll be turning 17 at the camp! :o I KNOW! I'm so excited, and I thought you'd all be interested, you lovely bunch of people.

We're getting the train from Darlington (North-East England) down to Manchester (just a bit further down really) to the airport to then FLYYYYY to Canada and then to the camp! There's 10 Girls going, and 4 leaders, all of whom are great fun and fantastic members of Girl Guiding. We're all so excited for the whole experience, especially because we've been organising it for over a year and a half!

We all met up in Durham last year in June at Redwood Lodge (a little Guiding hut in the centre of Durham) and stayed the night so we could get to know each other. It was the weekend of Durham's "Big Meeting" (which is really called Durham Miner's Gala) and it's where the collieries process their banners and there's a fair in town and THERE ARE HUGE CROWDS. Here's a picture of us ready to go into town to do a trail, and find the hidden bits of Durham!

We also had a murder mystery night! We all got dressed up and acted out the bits from the script! It was absolutely hilarious! Helen even sparked the kettle off!

I'm the one with the big black fascinator hat and the silly fishnet tights (I've had my hair cut since :P)

It was a *very* funny evening. We've sold quizzes and held evenings and ALL SORTS to raise money in this time too! It's all been very exciting, especially now we're getting so close to the real thing!

It was such a great weekend, we all got to know lots about each other!

We also played some great games...

Filling plastic bags with water and trying to fill buckets with them. It doesn't *sound* that fun...but believe me, it was!

Since starting off this blog, I've made my Theme Day Selections on the website, and found out that we're all going to be staying in the 70's Ranger Village! WOW! I mean, this really got me fist-pumping the air, it means I can wear some vintage 70's clothing, and get on down to some Lindisfarne, right?

We've just sorted out colours and nick names for hoodies and shirts for when we're at the camp and travelling around as a group, and it's really hitting home how soon this amazing camp is going to come around!

Thank you so much for following this, I promise I'll try and make it interesting (maybe even... *entertaining*?) for you to read about my experiences!

Stay adventurous,

Haze