Pueblo Trip -- United We Stand Badge and the Zoo!

On Saturday, November 7th two of the girls, Miss Kelly and Miss Pattie, went on a road trip to Pueblo! We went to a badge workshop where we earned the United We Stand badge! (The whole thing!)

As part of it we were asked to write patriotic Haikus. If you don't know what a Haiku is ... it is a Japanese poem which is 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line and 5 syllables in the third line. We would like to share our poems with you.

Alex wrote:

My country is free.

My mom serves it with courage.

She is my hero.

Cora wrote:

The great eagle soars

over our America.

It represents us.

Miss Kelly wrote:

Beloved country,

I served it with love and pride.

Go U.S. Air Force!

Miss Pattie wrote:

My America,

Country that I love dearly.

Be forever free.

ZOO. After working hard to earn the badges we then went to the zoo and had a blast! Here are a couple photos we would like you to see.

Who we are!

Hi my name is Angelica. I would like to tell you a little bit about myself. My favorite thing to say, write and show is "Smile Big". Not small or medium... BIG. Yes, big. The second thing for you to know is that I love to spend time with my Girl Scout troop. Maybe I should tell you a little about my family. My brother, Daniel, and my sister Monica are in college far away from home. My mom is named Urszula. She is a nurse, and works with newborn babies. My dad makes staircases out of wood and metal. His name is Jacek. My parents moved here from Poland. My favorite hobby is to draw. I draw everything around me. I learn more about the world when I draw. I play basketball and shoot a lot of hoops. I also like to dig up clay and make sculptures. In school my favorite subject is math because I am good at it. My favorite food is fresh picked red cherries.

My name is Cora, but you can call me "Math Girl" because it is my favorite subject in school. I have one brother. His name is Owen. He is 13 years old. He wants to be an archeologist. He already has a lot of fossils. My mom is one of the troop leaders. She has Lupus and because of that she has to wear oxygen all the time. My dad is a teacher at the middle school. Both of them were lawyers but don't miss it. I am in choir and YES Club at school. YES Club is Young Environmental Stewards. We learn about nature, and this semester we are studying fire. My favorite singers are The Jonas Brothers. They are really good. I love the color purple and I have a poem I wrote about purple. My favorite animal is a monkey -- I like the Golden Lion Tamarin best. It has the cutest babies.

My name is Alexandria but people call me Alex. I have lots of hobbies. I love to ride on motorcycles with my family. Ever since I was a little girl I always wanted motorcycle but my parents said I need to learn to ride my bicycle first. I collect bottle caps and stuffed animals. Two of my favorite animals are a giant stuffed Duck and a giant stuffed teddy bear. My other favorite hobby is being crazy. I am as hyper as a hyena or a gorilla without a banana for a month. I was born in Hawaii -- how cool is that?! My friends think I am really funny. My mom is in the Army. She is a Leiutenant Colonel. My dad makes maps, and one night he had to stay up all night making one. He also teaches people how to use computers. I have one brother. He is younger than me by two years. His name is Zachary. He has hair as long as a girl and he plays with it a lot.


My name is Alexis. One of my favorite things to do is to help others. My favorite band is The Newsboys. My favorite class in school is art. I love free drawing time best. I collect rocks and beads and feathers. My favorite rock is purple. My favorite feather is from a falcon. And my favorite bead looks like a rainbow. I live with my grandparents, my mom, my sister and my dog. My mom, Suzanne, is very caring. My sister, Polly, is 6 years older than me. She is very funny. My grandpa is one of the funniest people in my family. He likes to tease me. My grandma helps me make the right choices in life. She works very hard to take care of my family. My dog is named Nicky. She is a loving dog. I have some cousins that live in a different country -- Germany. I have been there to see them!

As a troop we are all funny, crazy and silly. We love to help others and we live by the Girl Scout Law.


On My Honor
I will try
to Serve God and my country,
to help people at all times, and
to live by the Girl Scout Law!

Juliette Low's Birthday & Our Guest!

Our first meeting of Novemeber was a huge hit! Juliette Gordon Low -- the founder of Girl Scouts was born on October 31st, so we celebrated her birth in style. We had a cake, complete with candles, the birthday song, and we preceded it all with a beautiful ceremony where we learned more about Juliette and why she gave us this lovely gift of scouting.

Even better than Juliette and her birthday cake, however, was the fact that we had a fabulous guest speaker. Her name is Miss Jamie and she is a good friend to Miss Pattie and Miss Kelly. We invited her to come talk to the girls and teach them a bit about Girl Scouts from her childhood as well as some of the things she does for scouting today. The girls asked good questions and seemed to learn a great deal from Miss Jamie. Thanks to her we also finished a complete badge : Girl Scouting in the USA.

Miss Jamie allowed me to ask her for a short bio related to Girl Scouts, and this is what she sent me. I hope you love meeting her as much as Pattie and I love being friends with her.

"I started in Brownies in Second Grade and became an Intermediate Girl Scout when I was in Forth Grade. I stayed in Girl Scouts all the way through high school and earned the Curved Bar, which was the highest girl award at that time. As a freshman in college I had health problems and had to spend the second semester at home, so I became an assistant leader. Years later I found out from one of the 'real' leaders how much my help had been appreciated.

I totally forgot about Girl Scouting until my oldest daughter needed a leader. When we moved to Germany I became involved in the government of Girl Scouting and was the Regional Commissioner for North Bavaria. That position gave me a position on the Board of Directors for North Atlantic Girl Scouts.

By that time I was really hooked. My work by then was mostly with adults as a director and a trainer.

The fun thing is that I spent my girl years in one council and as an adult I have served in six different councils. I was honored to serve a two year term on the Board of Directors of the Wagon Wheel Council."

As you can see by this very short bio ... we are lucky to have Miss Jamie on our side and in our community as a Girl Scout!