SONGS etc ‘W & X’
Where possible throughout the index of songs, chants, yells shirts etc has hand the prefixes ‘the’ or ‘a’ removed from the title.
Watermelon [Action]
Living a Healthy Active Lifestyle
In the Centenary Challenge Badge there is a light blue section that requires a new physical skill that some of the Guide participated in was a Night Penny Hike.
The instructions given included road sense, tossing the coin, walking together, using a torch..
Since most of the guides participating were not comfortable with walking through parks, near roads, and across traffic during the dark hours this night penny hike was a challenge. Although not totally enjoying the Dark the Guides are a little more comfortable when walking in a group at night.
Other active games played with friends have been the water game, soccer, making bubbles.
Outcomes from the overnight stay [Food and Four World Centers]
- Governance practiced in situations where the Guides begin to understand their roles, how governance occurs, the implications of Governance
- Structuring the Guides in their own Patrols so that they are comfortable to allow Advocacy has occurred.
- What is a Patrol Activity is becoming clearer to the Guides.
- Leadership under different situations occurred.
- Recognition of each guides potential is being gained by the Guide herself, those Guides around her and the friends and family.
- Life skills are being recognised as needed, looked for and fulfilled to each Guides individual pace.
- Seeking out information skills has begun.
- Joining the library as members.
- Identity issues are still being worked on.
- Badges, and other rewards and recognitions for a job being attempted, roll being taken on , skill learned are appreciated.
What do I get out of this?
Everything we do as a person is knowledge gained that can be used towards something else. These are called stepping stones or gaining of life skills.
Some things we set out to do (our goals) are directly put towards badges. Other things in the weekly program you helped organise may still go towards badges
but we may not be sure where they fit in. Talk to others around you (include the leaders as they may just know something too!!!) and find out where others have used these challenges. Activities, events and Service things are often being planned from the District and above level too. getting involved in these events again widens your views on what can and is achieved.
Show your badge books to your friends and family they may have ideas too. Your friends might even want to be invited to do something with you too.
Every time the challenges are used or done they take on more dimensions. We develop what we do. First by learning from someone else, making mistakes, redoing the challenge, improving on how things work, having the skill to use the equipment in a ‘funner’ way… or on why the thing did not work out.
Oranising ourselves, team members, the public and even our families and friends. Knowing what to take, the jobs and activities that go into making this an event to remember (and want to remember!) Talking and communicating with each other is a good skill to always improve on. Having a voice (advacacy) as well as using the governance skills gained where you and your friends can represent yourselves as individuals, or as a group/ team.
Working through the evaluations, then the pre-programing for the next time the challenge is run is a built on experience. Knowing how the thing is meant to work, the program and then what actually does happen to make it work.
Next level of gaining the skill is doing the job as a full member of the team or by yourself. This greatly depends on what the challenge is, 
the job is. Once you have the hang of this then your next challenge is to show someone else how and what to do. Let them have the fun of just doing something, being part of the team, making the mistakes, correcting them too, including them in the next adventure.
Gaining a skill, then showing others how to do this skill, learning another skill and repeating the basic process is part of skill gathering and may be even ‘maturing’ – not necessarily getting older either. Do we ever stop learning. I hope not. But as we progress in Guides there are different ways of wearing badges.
Lapel badges not often seen
In the beginning of anyone’s Guiding experiences the gaining of badges may happen quickly. Then they get a little harder. There is going to be gaps to fill in now on different badge requirements. So now you set out to fill in these gaps either by yourself, with family, friends, peers, other Guides (at Guides or not).
When badges are presented please remember that some Guides may have taken a long time to actually finish off a few which seem to be be given out at the same time. This is just how
things happen. The impression is false if one thinks that someone is a ‘better’ Guide, or better at Guides than someone else because of the badges on a sash or a shirt. This is not the case. Take into consideration how many years has that person been in Guides, is her family involved, does she include other activities into her Guiding awards? Does she choose not to wear her badges on her sash? Was there a problem where the sash or shirt was destroyed (accident, fire) or lost (when moving, or put down on a train, at a camp?) Simply is she not interested in awards, unable to afford the sash or badges? Or is she busy finalizing a handful of others but has not finished them yet? May be she just wants to do one at a time and do that one well.
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