Girl Scout Camp: Fill & Download for Free

Over where I live, the Girl Scout bakery Little Brownie Bakers makes a cookie called the S’more.It costs $5.00 per box rather than the normal $4.00, and this is because that extra dollar goes directly to the Girl Scout camps.Those dollars make sure proper maintenance of the tents is happening, making sure nothing falls on our heads while we sleep.By buying and eating cookies, you’re helping the Girl Scouts in your region enjoy a safe and authentic camp experience, so thank you. :)S’mores taste great directly from the box, but I find them a little dry. To fix that, nuke a platter of cookies in a microwave for around 30 seconds and, BAM, now they taste like real s’mores!The chocolate melts into a creamy texture, and the marshmallow fluff becomes poofy and not like those stale marshmallows you find in little kids’ cereal.Honestly, it’s heaven in cookie form.

I did Girl Scouts for five years.One of my best friends is in tenth grade and still doing it—that’s more than half of her life she’s spent in the program.In light of recent news regarding the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts have also come a bit into the spotlight.Now, a brief note. I really, really, really try not to call other people out on their answers. Most of the time they’re expressing opinions, and it’s not my place nor is it necessary to argue with them.Today I stumbled upon an answer written by a relatively popular Quoran regarding Girl Scouts.A core claim they made was that Boy Scouts taught life-lessons, Girl Scouts is just a lazy hangout.I’m sorry. What?I can speak from my own experience and that of countless friends all attending different schools.Girl Scouts might have been laid back, but it generally is an amazing program.In five years, I wrote skits. I planted trees. I volunteered. I looked at history. I camped out. I learned survival skills. I spent time with friends laughing and swimming and hiking. I solved challenges. I sold cookies. I wrote stories. I attended workshops.Girl Scouts is not meant to be Boy Scouts, but that doesn’t make it any less valid.Later on in the answer, it roughly said that in Boy Scouts you do a project which has a lasting impact on the community. For Girl Scouts, you do three Journeys to get your Gold Award. Two pertain to how women are oppressed. The third regarded organic food.A good friend of mine spent hours organizing a tutoring program for a less privileged school. She interviewed people. She wrote up a plan. She would spend her after school evenings helping kids with their homework.I asked a few people and did a brief Google search for verification.As it would turn out, most of the Journeys have nothing to do with what was mentioned.A common misconception about Girl Scouts is that it focuses primarily on things that are traditionally feminine.Tell me these badges don’t seem like great things for young girls to strive for.Girl Scouts are not Boy Scouts. They were never intended to be.They are their own unique program with their own unique flaws.

I once picked up a hitch hiker who was going "home" after a twenty six year absence. He was excited to see his old home town after all those years, but when we got there, nothing was as he remembered it. The house he grew up in had been torn down years ago. None of the people he remembered were there any more. The school he went to had been converted to girl scout camp. The stores he went to as a kid were all gone. Nothing was the same. Home was but a fading memory, and when he left, he was in a state of shock. The roots he had held onto all those years were gone forever.