It's all hotting up!

It was 19 Degrees Centigrade today! WOW!

The sun really made me think about how much I am looking forward to the GLORIOUS weather in Canada!

I've just been to a Brownie fund-raiser because they're going to Disneyland Paris in October! They had an auction, and I helped to sell the raffle tickets, and Mum took some fresh rhubarb to sell in bunches! It was great fun, our community is really supportive of Guiding :D

Alongside that, it made me think that you might like to know that the week before Mosaic, I'm going to Disneyland Paris myself with our school Choir and Orchestra for a Concert Tour! Phew! Busy times, but I thought I'd drop you a note letting you know about how I'm getting all prepared :D

So I went shopping tonight for shoes. EXCITING, right? I really do love shoes, but these ones are for camp. Now, I'm *really* not a CROC person, and I did have a pair of cheap ones for Poacher, but they wore out really quickly and I am quite glad of that. However, these ones do remind me of Crocs, albeit they are NOT.

They're like...water shoes? For activities and what-not! They're totally CAMP shoes, like they say everything about the practicality and fun :D Ok... they're not HUGELY attractive, but they're BLUE! I REALLY LIKE BLUE.

I also got another "Micro" towel...

It's SO ABSORBENT. Super, duper weird.

I do also look really rather...surprised?

Oh well! I guess it's just because I'm really excited, right?

We're going BIG bag shopping soon, I'll let y'all know how it's going in the U.K. sometime soon!

Stay adventurous,

Haze

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

Hello new blog and a new stage of my life!

So, this year (in about 9 weeks time :o) I'm going to be flying out to Guiding Mosaic Canada 2010, which is an international Girl Guide camp! I'm so excited, and one particular thing that is getting me really pumped about the whole experience is being offered the chance to blog for the camp!

This was my original entry... I hope you enjoy it!

I've been involved with Girl Guiding since I was five, and so far have loved every minute of it! I have learnt so much, made so many new connections, and hope that these experiences shape me as a person for the rest of my life. There are people from all walks of life that I never thought I'd be such good friends with that I have bonded with over a soggy washing up cloth and a string puppet who have become the people I want to spend my time with; helping others and being part of a team. I am extremely proud to be part of such an amazing organisation, and the experiences that Guiding has brought me will surely stay with me forever. I have always loved documenting things, keeping an entertaining blog for the past year (http://imnotgoingtolietoyou.blogspot.com) and telling stories, and throughout my guiding experiences, I have been encouraged to express myself and discover aspects of my true personality, and I would like to thank Guiding for this. I am sure that without Guiding, I would not be the person I am today, and surely a less interesting person. What inspires me about this organisation is the sense of togetherness, to better each others and other people's lives. There are no aspects of jealousy or selfishness, just coming together to have a great time whilst making a difference in a huge number of ways. I am extremely excited and honoured to be a part of this amazing camp, and hope that everyone I know and will come to know through it will take from it as much as I will, and continue to pursue a life made better by Guiding.

(I'll be posting more things about how we're all getting organised with our Team from Durham, U.K. if you follow this link http://www.hazelgoesoutandabout.blogspot.com)

Stay adventurous,

Haze.