Girl Scout Thinking Day 2009

Every year in February Girl Scouts and Girl Guides around the world celebrate Thinking Day. This day for the second year Grace's troop has organized and overnight at a local company called Girl Friends and Company. The girls learn about different countries and Girl Scouts/Guides in those countries while having fun. They each receive a passport to stamp at each country they visit. Last year troops from Rosa Parks Elementary each took a different country. This year Grace's troop divided 5 countries up with the girls being in charge. Local girl scouts were invited and the event was used as a fund raiser for the troops trip this summer to Savannah. This year's countries were Fiji, Costa Rica, Ireland, Jordan and Kenya. The girls traveled from room to room learning from Grace's troop members. Grace and her friend had Fiji as their country. the highlight of Fiji for Grace was learning about cannibalism. I don't think that is what Girl Scouts has in mind but she did learn something. Food from each country was sampled and "swaps" from each country were made as a souvenir. A local Irish dance group was also kind enough to come and demonstrate Irish dancing for the girls and teaching them a few steps. Carlie and Grace did a great job and both Hannah and Grace had a good time. It was nice to know they could handle staying the night somewhere (with people I trust) without mom having to spend the night. I am not a fan of sleeping on the floor.