For the last several years I have participated in the BSA adult leadership program called Wood Badge. I have participated in seven courses and last year I was the Course Director. It was great especially since I had Jesse and Sara as Scribes and Jared as a participant. This year I was an assistant course director for the boy equivalent course of Wood Badge called NYLT (National Youth Leadership Training) It is a great program and is the closest thing I have ever seen to a scout troop run "by the book" We had 25 boy participants and a staff 16 or 17. Most of the staff were young men. Mike Masterpool was the Scout Master and he is the perfect Scout Master. Always in the background and let the boys lead and take charge. The boys taught the classes and directed the activities. One activity was to send the boys out for an overnight campout using GPS coordinates to find their campsite. Then we sent the boy leaders out a night to find them and bring them back for a special campfire. It is quite a challenge to find them and bring them back in the dark using just their GPS. We were at Camp Fleishmann for 10 days preparing and putting on the course. Here are some pics.
leopard day
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There was a scared and aggressive leopard on the loose in Whitefield that
was spotted near Eden's school. Her school was closed while the animal was
bein...
A smiling blogging come back……
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[image: 1a grammy smiles]
This is my first post of this year. Actually I thought I’d stopped blogging
for good…. even though I think about my blogging fr...
Lessons in Life
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I had a couple of experiences that I wanted to record before I forgot them.
Both of them happened this weekend. There is more to the stories than I
want ...
mini vacations
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John and I took two mini vacations the last few weekends.
Two weekends ago, we did another night up in Reno at the Atlantis. I had a
doctor appointment, an...
Serving a Useful Purpose
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Dear Family and Friends,[image: image]
The Christmas before we left on our mission our children gave us a wicker
box filled with messages written on small ...
1 comment:
I bet you are glad you did it. And glad it is over! :)
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