Me A-Z

Hello to you other AMAZING BLOGGERS, this is my A-Z post and I’m going to be talking about Girl Scout. Although this is a theater blog, scouts is another thing that I’m very passionate about.

Much to many’s surprise Girl Scouts is about so much more than just COOKIES. American Girl Scouts was founded by Juliet Gordon Low. Juliet was widely known as DAISY,(hence the name of the youngest tier of Girl Scouts.) Daisy wasn’t exactly the most ELEGANT but she was a powerful, strong, FREESPIRIT, who couldn’t drive! In fact, on the streets she was known as crazy Daisy, because her driving was so insane that she would drive on sidewalks, through peoples yards, and would even crash into houses. When she drove down the streets of Savannah, pedestrians would run and yell “Crazy Daisy! Watch out for Crazy Daisy!”

 Despite living in Savannah, GEORGIA for the majority of her life, Daisey and her HUSBAND had homes in both England and Georgia. The UK had a similar program to Girl Scouts called The Girl Guides, Daisy felt INSPIRED when she discovered these Girl Guides.  At a meeting in 1912 with Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts, JULIET new that her dream had to become a reality, she established Girl Scouts on March 12th later that same year. She phoned her cousin and told her the plans of her incredible idea , “I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!” she said. Daisy KNEW it would be hard. The first meeting was a small troop of 18 diverse young women of different religions, ethnic backgrounds, and even girls with disabilities. Daisy wanted to guarantee that every girl had a place to grow and LEARN to become LEADERS. 

Girl Scouts was heavily inspired by the MILITARY,  and the troops would often march around the streets of Savannah. Girl Scouts broke down barriers for a lot of girls, young girls learned to be themselves and not care what others thought. For instance, the uniform that scouts of the time would wear for camping was a green jumpsuit that, at the time, would be considered underwear. Granted none of these scouts cared because the only time they wore these was in the middle of the woods with other scouts their age. However there was one time where Juliet wanted to teach her scouts how to play basketball, they didn’t want to ruin their NEAT uniforms, so they wore their camping uniforms. The troop proudly marched down the streets of Savannah in their underwear so that they could learn to play basketball. Girls OPENLY showed their PRIDE and when you were a scout you wanted everyone to know! Scouts had uniforms and merchandise for every occasion. They sold hair and tooth brushes, everyday clothes, and fancy pins and sashes for when girls needed to dress up. Girl Scout merchandise was very popular for a long time and was QUITE the hot commodity. 

The RANKINGS of Girl Scouts consists of daisys, brownies, juniors, cadettes, SENIORS, ambassadors, and then you become a Girl Scout alumni. I started daisies in kindergarten with my sister and a couple other girls from my school and another elementary school. We also had a sistering troop of younger girls. I loved my TROOP and was UBER excited to be involved in so many Girl Scout activities. Our troop was rather big, but over time the girls began to leave one by one until there were only five girls in our troop. Eventually we had no money and whatever we did have we spent on activities for the younger girls, and everytime we lost a girl they added one to the other troop until we were completely outnumbered, it became extremely VEXATIOUS and we decided we had to make a change. I knew that quitting WASN’T and option. In sixth grade we found troop 3154, an amazing group of some lovely girls that all happened to go to the same school as jane and I. The girls kindly accepted us into the troop, and I was absolutely ECSTATIC! That was two YEARS ago and it was a great decision.  I get to be involved in my community, learn, and have fun all while getting closer to some of the most beautiful, smart, strong, funny, ZANY, lovely friends I think I’ll ever know.