Mad Hatters and an enrollment

Last week the Brownies were having a Princess tea party so we decided to have a Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

The Brownies learned table settings and good manners as befits young princesses.

Guides decorated their table and made some snacks and sandwiches and then ate their tea according to the throw of a dice.

Today we enrolled our newest Guide.

Heritage Day

The last day of last term was Heritage Day.   Jeanette's school had had a special celebation and she came with her two neices dressed for the celebration.   Tsegofatso and Zinthle were enrolled.   We played the chocolate game afterwards which was not a success.   The girls just got too excited and out of control.





Some of the Guides in uniform

The chocolate game

This term the court-of-honour/patrol-in-council decided that one girl from each patrol would do her Cook's badge at the end of this term.   The rest of the patrol would come to "her" house for a patrol dinner.   The Blue Cranes will come to the orphange where Maria will cook and the Flamingos will go to Jeanette's brother's home.   During meetings we will learn table settings, balanced menus and start Christmas crafts.

I was given an old guide uniform by one of my old Guides.   Zinthle wore the skirt for her enrollment.   When I asked the girls if they would all like to wear skirts, they were very enthusiastic.

    We had been donated two big boxes of craft materials.  
Among these were about 15 packs of finger-puppets to make.   I undertook that if the girls made some finger puppets last week and the week before, I would take them to work and try to sell them as well as the left over kits.   Well, we made enough money to buy skirts for all of them, especially since Mary, our    Regional Commissioner ,will let us have them for a little above cost price.   Thanks Mary and my supportive work colleagues!

Zinthle

Tsegofatso

Rays of  Hope asked us to do a performance for the closing ceremony of their fund raising cycle rally.   Luckily we have done two performances already so just just had to practice what they already knew.   Here's hoping it all goes well tomorrow.

Cookout at Delta Park

Overall it was a successful day. A couple of challenges but then isn't that what serving the Lord is all about? Six girls arrived. There had been no sign of Stella when the driver had called for her.

First I demonstrated how we were going to cook rice in the solar cooker in the sun. Only Jeanette believed it would cook. Then while the Blue Crane Patrol made pancakes, the Flamingoes decorated meskit bags.

The gel stove that we used for the pancakes was challenging as the wind kept blowing the flame out and the gel would finish just as a pancake was half cooked. Nevertheless, they all got eaten.

One thing the girls were pretty good at was collecting wood and making fires. For a group who are brand new, to light a fire without any paper, using only one match was quite impressive. I taught them to wrap chicken in tin foil and cook it in the coals and I introduced them to banana boats - bananas with chocolate and marshmallows inserted and wrapped in foil and cooked. The rice was beautifully cooked, not one chicken piece was burned and they all enjoyed the banana boats.

After washing up, the fires were still hot enough to toast marshmallows. Nellie, my new asistant was very impressed with toasted Marshmallows.

I asked Amanda, who had missed the enrolment because of a funeral, if she wanted to be enrolled at closing colours and she said yes, so we did.

The girls enjoyed the day but their good behaviour couldn't last so long and they became very challenging towards the end. Next time I'll go for a shorter day. Seven and a half hours is quite heavy for primary school children.

Please pray for the selection of patrol leaders.