About Me

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

I thought I would start off with a bit about myself. My name is Jayne, I live in London and I am currently 21. I have been involved in Guides since the age of 7 so you can do the maths on how many years that is.
I wanted to start this blog as I recently made a new Guide friend at an Innovate weekend (I will explain what this is a bit later) and she inspried me to do it. She already does one all about her guiding and experiences so I thought I would do the same but also add other things I have been up to past and present. I just hope people find it interesting and will read it.

Anyway as you have probably guessed I started at Brownies when I was 7 and attended a unit that was run by my next door neighbour. As a unit we didn't do much in terms of trips and outings but we did a lot of badge work and work on our hand book. We did also play games and do the odd craft. I do remember going on one brownie pack holiday in my brownie life and this was with another unit. I remember being very scared as I didn't know many people there but I had a great time and made new friends which I later on met again at secondary school.

I moved to guides when I was 11 and straight away had my name down to go on their big trip to Italy. This would be the first time being away from my parents and home for a week. I was very nervous and did miss them but I had a fantastic time and every time the opportunity came up to go away again I made sure I had my name down. We got to visit many countries like Italy, Germany, Austria, and Croatia. These trips were a fantastic chance to go countries that my family wouldn't normally visit.

When I got to 14 and had done my Baden Powell I moved on to being a young leader. Up until I was 18 we never had a proper leader who would help us plan a programme so we did our own thing which was mostly sewing our camp blankets and eating pot noodles. Once I turned 18 me and my friend who I had known since I started brownies decided to do our ALQ and become warranted senior section leaders. From then we planned meetings and organised trips until early 2011 all our girls left due to college or uni or just not wanting to attend so I am now where I am today with a new unit just up the road and I love it there. I am currently doing my Queens Guide and I am about half way through both time wise and challenge wise.

So that is my journey do far.