Julie of the wolves

Miyax was lost in the Arctic. Thankfully her father had taught her some things. She finds a pack of wolves and manages to communicate with them. She pats the leader (his name is Amaroq) underneath his chin to show respect. She pats the pups and weakest wolf on top of their nose to show that they must show respect to her. When Miyax was young her father went out in a boat and never came back, so people thought he was dead. She said Amaroq was her adopted father. He brought food to her, he scared a bear away from her to protect her he even brought her to the wolf den to sleep. The leader pup, Kapu, would come and play with her. Once he came when she had finished cooking meat and she gave him some. He liked it so much that when he could catch something he brought it to her to cook. A while later he came back for some cooked meat.

She was running away to her pen pal. As she was getting close to the end of her journey an aeroplane came over and started to shoot at the wolves. They hit Amaroq and he died. They just wanted to get one of the ears for money. Afterwards Kapu became the leader. After a while Miyax finds her father. She was so happy that he was alive. But when she went into his house she saw a whole lot of American things and that he had married an American woman. Miyax did not want to go to her pen pal anymore because she was American and it was Americans that killed her adopted father. So when she saw the American things in her father’s house she left.
As she was going to the house she had made, her pet bird died. Then she realised that she could not survive alone. So Julie pointed her boots towards her father and happily went to him. She had been calling herself Miyax because she wanted so much to be an Eskimo and that was her Eskimo name.

Silly Story

This morning I had to write at the top of the black board. I could not reach so I got on a gym ball. I was all right till a had to get down. Then I took the "easiest" way - I fell. We went to the doctor and she said my wrist might be broken because it hurt so much. So we went to town for an x-ray. The lady that took the x-ray was very nice and gave me a copy of the ex-ray (normally they don't pint them out - they just look at them on the computer). My wrist was not broken - just strained. I had to use "RICE" which stands for "Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation".

Promise

We had a promise ceremony for some of the girls today.

As a sixer







I took up the girl in my six who was saying her promise.

Mum also made her promise today.

Mum got some lovely flowers.

Region Brownie Camp Day 3

This morning we packed our bags and then went for a long walk to the swimming pool. It was at least 1 1/2 km away.
I really enjoyed swimming in the warm pools.
Then we went to a park that was close to the pools and had lunch. They had the BBQ on the back of a trailer and cooked the sausages on there.

We played a little bit at the park and then walked back.

This is my group. The Rosebuds.
Before we went home they handed out the photo frames with our photos in. They also gave each of us a patch, a pen and a photo of the group of us before the disco.
We all had such a great time.

Region Brownie Camp Day 2

In the morning we had a Guide Zone which is like a mini church service where we think about all the things that we have and thank God for what He has provided. We went through a time tunnel and then looked at photos of things now and what they had to use in the years before.

Then we collected sticks and bark for our campfire.

We spent most of the day doing different activities in our groups.

We made little crumpets / pancakes on Buddie burners.

We made pet rocks. Mum was the leader for this. At the end of the day she made a little pig for Dad and called it piggles.

We decorated photo frames.

We got to dress up in old Brownie uniforms and have our photos taken. We will put the photo in the frame we made.

Once we had our photo taken we played a game that they would have played years ago.

We got to sit in a a canvas tent and learn about different things like camping in the rain. We learnt that if it rains you must not touch the side of the tent cause the water will come in.

We got to decorate a biscuit with icing sugar and sweets and then we made ice cream. I loved doing that. We got to eat our biscuits for afternoon tea and we had our ice scream for pudding.

We went to a play ground area and we went on a really fun flying fox. It went over that little pond and our feet touched the top of the plants.

There was a rope swing. This area was called the Confidence course.

We made little owls because we learnt that Brownie leaders were called "Brown Owl".

There was karaoke where we had to sing into a microphone and see how good you can be. The words were on the TV. I sang "The Dancing Queen". We watched Mama Mia before we went on camp so I was glad to recognize some of the songs.

We got to go to the Scout camp and see all the things they had made. My group even got to go across this bridge.

We had to make up a skit for the camp fire. None of them were very good though although the campfire was lovely. It was nice to wear my campfire blanket with all the patches on that I have collected.
After the campfire we got dressed up in costumes and we had our photo taken. Mum has put a red circle around my face.

Then we had a disco. They gave us glow in the dark sticks that we made necklaces or bangles with. It was so much fun.