Jannika's Page- 1st Morton and Fyfield Explorers

havent blogged in a while so i thought id let you all know we have sliver bullet up and running we have out unit shirts made and have had a good amount of offical meetings!! we have our first lot of fundraising and we are opening a unit bank account this week to put our funds into for camps etc. so we are getting their!!! we even have nicknames for the 4 of us that are in the unit so far! I'm Snow cuz im very pail, Ashley is Pit cuz hes a bottemless pit for food lol! tony is Pepper and Darren… Continue

im now over half way to getting my woodbadge!!! i did a whole weekend the other weekend and completed 6 units! i have now compleated 10 of 19 needed to get my woodbadge! it was a good weekend had fun at the training and me ashley and tony stayed over night in the bunk house and had a few drinks and a chat about scout things like me and ash helping tony with his cubs at mega camp and setting up a local network unit as our closest network is 40 mins away and me and ash really want to get into the… Continue

just got back from brass monkey today, it was a great weekend! me and ashley (my fellow leader) spent 5 hours with the cubs teaching them how to light a fire and how to build a bivi in prep for when they are old enough to take part in the brass monkey challage as a scout. it was a really good to pass my knolage on to the cubs for there future in scouting! when the cubs hand gone home whe started to go make checks on how our teams where getting on with their scedual and where thinking about… Continue

saturday i have my first training day, first module im doing is first aid! starts at 10 am and lasts all day til 4.30 pm im really quite excited to get the training started so quickly, we are aiming to get it all done in 3 yrs so we get our woodbagde n the group get the money spent on our training back. im a little unsure of what to expect and how it will be as im quite shy around people i dont know and i get easly embarised. but im still looking forward to it !



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Brass monkey is a survival weekend compertition organised by Royal frorist district. the scouts and explorers are in groups of 3-6 and have to cook 5 meals (lunch, dinner,breckfast, lunch, dinner) on open fire reciving points more points for cooking wild like rabbit and they get points for having there menu displayed nicely. also they are marked on the inventiveness and effectiveness of there camp gadgets, and finaly there Bivis/bashers are marked for use of natral matirials and… Continue