I've been drinking green tea all goddamn day!: Venting
that-shatters-my-entire-universe:
So the year before I quit Girl Guides our group went on an Alaskan cruise (without me, because my mom thought it was “unsuitable” for a 13-year-old to go on a cruise) and I just found out that this year they went to Our Cabana in Mexico. We used to dream about going to places like that when I was…
You can still join back in. I did…it was ten years before I did but once I did I didn’t regret it. My unit is poor like yours was but we have a lot of camperships and collective community fund raising to give the girls the opportunity to realise their dreams. We actually had a girl go to international camp! Also if you’re old enough to be a leader, one of the perks is that you don’t have to pay to go on trips…it’s all done through guiding.
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Summer time! Camping, woodsy weddings, and hiking!
So the prospects for this summer are looking pretty fabulous. I’ll be married in June to the Astrophysicist, rock climbing in two weeks for our last GGC meeting and then working at Camp Wyoka as a volunteer. In September I finish my Outdoor Activity Leadership training! I am still working on my Red Pine Award but I am nearing half way there. I didn’t go hiking for a while so it put me back. Bought myself a new pair of hiking shoes and my camp shirt just in time because I just had my interview with the director of Wyoka and I’ll be leading a hike as well as doing a leadership skills retreat with some Ranger age girls. I’m also working on sewing my Camp Patch Jacket with all the badges and patches I’ve collected since rejoining GGC. Pictures of that upcoming! Since our regular meetings are ending, I will be available for Young Naturalists and Trail Maintenance to fill in my days. 
This year has been sort of messed up for me. I went from having the ambition(which tbh still exists) of being an Archaeologist to being too poor to finish my degree and dealing with my inability to become employed in a new city 3000 km away from where I’d been living for four years. I’ve been hitting the quarterlife crisis way too hard…being a “grown-up” but not feeling like one at all. I decided to play up my strengths and push myself in ways I never thought possible(I’ve done a few scary things I never could have done in the past, due to having a mental disability) and it seems like my life trajectory is changing. I took a single online course for Naturalist Career Management which is going to become handy now since I am running a leadership camp in the wilderness.
In the flurry of it all, my other science blog has been a bit barren the past few months and I feel guilty…but I have no relevant development to add to it being that I currently can’t pursue Archaeology. At any rate, things are changing, and I have some future plans that didn’t really fit with my old ones…but summer is going to be good. I hope to have more than one award by the end of the summer and hopefully get some of my poor financial situation figured out.
Camping Season and Being an Outdoorsy Girl Guide
So camping season is starting. Winter camp was a while ago but already I’m getting prepared for the summer, summer camp and all kinds of outdoor activities. I’ve been working toward my Red Pine Award for Hike Ontario and the other day we did Night Ops at the Warplane Heritage Museum. My unit slept under one of only two flying Lancaster Bombers. Anyway I thought I’d give you guys some GPOY of my GGC exploits to date.
GPOY, bad photo of me in my Guides uniform with my current badges to date.
A closeup of my pintab with my Outdoor Activity Leadership badge 
My sweet Night Ops crest, and my Girl Guides International Flash
My patch collection that I’ve been starting, and a survival bracelet I made. The other Guides crest is for Camp Adelaide.
With summer camps coming up, I have applied to be a volunteer for Girl Guides summer camp, we have our own unit’s camp coming up and we just did an overnight camp at the Warplane Heritage Museum with the Scouts, and another Guide unit. In September, I will be finishing up my Outdoor Activity Leadership badgework so I can get the full badge.
