Today was our first day with Brownies and Guides, and, as it's a joint organisation, Cubs and Scouts! We travelled to Ogre, a city about 45 minutes from Riga, to meet up with Liga and her unit. We were met at the station by a lovely scout called Mareks, who showed us the way to the Scout and Guide Museum where they hold their meetings. After a short introduction from Liga, we got on with our activities...
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| Starting with some name games in the two ages groups... |
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| Then joining together for getting into alphabetical order, in limited space! |
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| Then into smaller teams. Each team was given an egg... |
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| To decorate and name, and cherish forever... |
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| Then we had small activities, including moving a ball from one tree to another, down paper tubes... |
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| And standing on a very small bit of paper singing a song... |
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| To earn resources to create something to protect their egg... |
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| As the egg was dropped from the window... |
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| They all survived! |
At the end of the meeting, we did an evaluation - pretty successful! And then went into Ogre with Liga, Davis (one of the Rovers), Anate (one of the older guides who is hoping to make her Ranger promise this weekend), and two of the younger scouts. We had some fabulous Latvian food (chicken and pork, and mushroom sauce, or cheese...), and then headed back to the station, with the two younger Scouts leading the way (and occasionally shouting "come on, only 9 minutes!"). We made it back to Riga, and Lizzie, Toni, Alice and Laura headed out to get ice cream, whilst Net and Sarah collapsed in the hostel!
We're off for a hike tomorrow, with a Guide unit, and potentially some Brownies, as they are hoping to start up a new Brownie unit there -it'll be great to talk tactics with the leaders whilst we're walking!
Early night tonight though!
GOLD love,
Team Latvia
