Girl Scout Zoom Scavenger Hunt

Pre-Covid Girl Scout

Several years ago, I was one of the leaders of my daughter's Girl Scout troop. I had taken a lot on that year - I had also been a Sunday School teacher and a Girls on the Run Coach. It was a lot and I ended up quitting all of my volunteer positions because I was just run down.

But my daughter's Girl Scout troop needed a leader for the Brownies and no-one else was coming forward so I volunteered. I'm not going to take on anything else, especially since things like Sunday School aren't happening right now anyway.

In pre-Covid times, we met at a local church in their youth room. It had lots of space, which was good because our troop has different ages groups so we could all spread out. But because of the pandemic, the church isn't comfortable with us using their indoor space. They do have a covered pavilion with picnic tables outside and we have been meeting there

Since we are in NC, the weather has been warm enough for us to do that. But for this week's meeting, it was suppose to be 45 degrees out so we decided to move the meeting online to Zoom.

Over the summer, we had a few Zoom meetings that I ran because I was asked to set up the meeting. It went pretty well, but we were only doing it with the older girls. Today was the first time we were doing it with the whole troop.

Now our troop has gotten a lot smaller. We have some girls who just lost interest and some parents who didn't feel comfortable with meeting in person at all even though we are outside and require everyone to wear masks. Even though we are smaller, we still have three different age groups from 2nd grade to 6th grade so we had to do something that all of them would enjoy.

I found the idea to do a scavenger hunt and started to look up things for the girls to find around their houses. I found a lot of vague lists but nothing that was Girl Scout related so I made up my own.

As the weather gets colder and while the pandemic still rages, I thought I'd share my Girl Scout themed scavenger hunt so any troop can use them. All our girls had a lot of fun finding their items and showing them off!

1) Find something Daisy blue

2) Find something that would be useful on a hike

3) Your favorite patch or Girl Scout shirt

4) Find something that is Brownie brown

5) Find something that would be useful at a cookie booth

6) Something you made

7) A pet or stuffed animal

8) Find something Junior green

9) Find something Cadette beige

The only one that isn't really Girl Scout related is the pet / stuffed animal one. I have found that nearly every Zoom meeting has the girls wanting to show off their pets. Something you made I said could be something at Girl Scouts or elsewhere. 

As we continue to use Zoom as we go into winter, hopefully we can think of more fun things to do!

Ableism

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 Life has been hard and I haven't been blogging at all. I'm going to try and remedy that and try to write at least one post a week. Mostly so I can get in the habit of writing more and to keep my brain on its toes.

My post today is kind of all about my brain. My poor broken brain. I have a lot of health issues. My foot, that I sprained back in April, thinks that it is very hurt. Or my brain thinks my foot should hurt when there isn't really much physically wrong with it. I've been diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome in my foot and have to have a chair for work because I can't be on my feet for eight hours anymore.

I still suffer from my chronic migraines and I have short term memory issues thanks to the brain mass I had back in 2014. This comes up often at work. I work in the deli of a local grocery store. We have a hot bar that we serve breakfast food and then lunch/dinner options. We also have an asian food bar and a sub bar. These bars are were I work - it's my job to serve people and keep things stocked and clean.

We can be short handed sometimes, especially when people go on their lunch breaks. Sometimes I find myself alone to handle all three bars. Usually it's not a big deal and I can holler for help if I need to. This is the situation I found myself in last week.

A trio of young men came up to the sub bar and started to order. Just after a woman came up to the asian bar. I was trying to take the mens' order and holler for help. This caused my brain to do a little bit of a meltdown and I couldn't remember what meat and cheese they wanted for their subs. This happens a lot but these young men thought it would be fun to mock me for my memory issues.

I honestly don't remember exactly what they said but it was snide and ablest. I still did my job and got their subs made. After they left, the lady was still at the asian bar though someone had come up to help her. She was very, very upset though - she was upset for me, that they had treated me so bad.

At the time, I told her it was ok, that I didn't mind. But honestly, it's been in the back of my mind ever since then. Those young men didn't know who I was or that I am technically a disabled person. But they didn't need to mock me for my memory issues. Similar interactions where I forget what meat or cheese for a sub happens everyday, but most customers are gracious and just repeat what they want.

As my health gets worse, I get more annoyed with people being ablest. I honestly wish that people would treat everyone with dignity and respect, but that's not going to happen sadly. I'm sure the young men who mocked me haven't given it a second thought. 

Please be kind, you don't know what issues people might be dealing with. And I can make a great sub, I just might need some help remembering what you want on it.