Friday, June 22, 2007
And He's Off!!
As I type this, Zachary should be on the final leg of his trek to Camp Baden-Powell near Sheffield, England. He and about two dozen other Boy Scouts and six adult chaperones from Stuttgart will spend a week camping with Boy Scouts from around Europe at the camp appropriately named after the founder of the Boy Scout movement: Lord Robert Baden-Powell.
We’ve spent the last few nights packing and repacking his backpack, double-checking his gear, and getting ready for this campout. Zachary was definitely excited when the time came to meet up and move out!
It’s actually the centennial year of scouting, since Baden-Powell sponsored the first scout campout with 22 boys on July 25, 1907, on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in southern England. This first campout was designed to test out Baden-Powell’s ideas that stemmed from his rewriting of his best-seller book, “Aids to Scouting,” to suit a youth readership.
Who ever would have thought that the first campout nearly 100 years ago would give rise to the world scouting movement that now claims membership of more than 38 million scouts!?!!
On a side note, my first trip to England was sans parents (as a junior-high exchange student). Interesting how Zachary’s first trip there is also sans parents!
We’ve spent the last few nights packing and repacking his backpack, double-checking his gear, and getting ready for this campout. Zachary was definitely excited when the time came to meet up and move out!It’s actually the centennial year of scouting, since Baden-Powell sponsored the first scout campout with 22 boys on July 25, 1907, on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in southern England. This first campout was designed to test out Baden-Powell’s ideas that stemmed from his rewriting of his best-seller book, “Aids to Scouting,” to suit a youth readership.
Who ever would have thought that the first campout nearly 100 years ago would give rise to the world scouting movement that now claims membership of more than 38 million scouts!?!!
On a side note, my first trip to England was sans parents (as a junior-high exchange student). Interesting how Zachary’s first trip there is also sans parents!Labels: Boy Scouts, England, Zachary
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Zach looks so grown up--& that back pack looks 6 ft. tall! What an adventure for him!
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