There is so many to choose from, so many interesting activities. How do choose just 8 or 4 of them? How do you only pick one out trip without wanting to do them all? The time has passed and we have all picked our sessions and theme day selections. Many of us had difficulty doing this because there was so many to choose from the activity catalogue out of the 6 categories and out trips. The categories were divided into these categories: Active Living, Adventure, Arts and Crafts, Community Connections, Science and Technology, Waterfront and Out Trips! How Exciting!!
Active Living gets you moving all of your body with fabulous fun games that will make you want to play all day with a bunch of friends. Love soccer and baseball? Try California Kickball that combines both soccer and bases or a simple game of soccer. Go back 100 years and try games that girls used to play to have fun years ago such as bocce ball, and kick the can. Want to learn a precision sport and get better at aim? Try Archery or try the Fencing which was in modern day Olympics. Yoga, Pilates, a running clinic could help find a sport or activity that maybe you would then now love and want to do at home. Jump in the air with a bunch of friends and learn how to do flips and enjoy the feeling about being in the air by trying trampoline. Enjoy the nature citing that we could see on the Guelph Lake trails in trail walking. There is much more. Unfornately we can only pick one of these from this category. There will be other times to do it, or maybe we will have a chance to do it again someday.
If you’re daring and love to have wonderful adventures this category is for you. Adventure gets you excited to try new things that you have most likely think are exotic to be doing at camp. Like heights? Try Rock Climbing or Rappelling. Where Rock Climbing you climb to the top of the rock wall, or Rappelling where you go down the rock wall. Fly through the air on a zip line in a high flying adventure or take a walk through a cave and explore the creatures that live in the cave. Scared of heights? Have no fear there is something for you. Grab a helmet and hit the skateboarding course, or mountain biking, you could even try Low Ropes! Climb through the trees on a thrill seeking adventure in High Ropes. Everyone has seen the show how about participate in GM amazing race? That would be fun! Learn the basics while you make friends with a horse and go trail riding non- experienced or experienced doesn’t matter. Which one will you choose out of this interesting section of program?
If you’re creative, you love art and drama you will for sure LOVE this section. With plenty to do in the arts and crafts section it is hard to pick what one you want to do. A Drawstring Backpack would be helpful to have a Mosaic and I do think every one needs at least one. So how about you make a bandana/drawstring backpack? Make grandma proud by testing your skills on rug hooking and knotted bags. Make her and your parents even more proud by showing them you know how to use a mop in a different way by making a Mop Doll. It’s probably not what you’re thinking. There is no cleaning up in the section of the craft. However, you are going to create a new friend out of a mop! Sleep well by making a dream catcher and make all those bad dreams go away or how about a pillow case? Want to show off your drama skills or singing skills? Improv’ Games, celebrating guiding oldest traditions with singing and square dancing are just to name a few. There are lots more that we could have selected!
Show your true colors to the Guelph community that you care. You have a chance to volunteer at the Guelph Food Bank and distribute food to others. Do you like to garden? You’ll love the Garden Fresh Box Program and the Elizabeth’s Place Women’s Shelter. Try you’re knitting and crocheting skills by make a knotted quilt or making a bed mat out of milk bags. Help out at the Salvation Army stores in Guelph or make blankets for the homeless. If you really like it outside and think you’ll love the site were staying at. You can paint picnic tables, plant a garden, or work with a Horticulture Aid and help deliver programs to seniors. Every bit of our participation throughout the community is one big help and is greatly appreciated. So let’s go out and celebrate with helping out in the community.
Get your hands on to stuff that you would never thought you would do before. Science and Technology offers some very cool sessions that you will love. Dive into your creativity and try Digital Scrapbooking and bring home a wonderful book of Guiding Mosaic memories. Let you composer shine right above you and try and record Digital Music. Be Dazzled by Color and take off the colors on Skittles and Smarties to find out what the actual color is. Learn about the science of make-up and cosmetics. While you’re at it create some of your own. Get your hand on some cool experiments and partake in CSI Guelph or investigate, spy and gather information with common equipment in Hi-Tech Spy. Are you an animal lover? Tour one of Ontario’s World Famous Vet Colleges in Guelph by joining I Want to be a Vet! Learn how to protect our Pale Blue Dot and discover the pros and cons about wind turbines. Find out how much energy it takes on a treadmill to make battery power. All of these are interesting activities that everyone would love to do!
Splash in the pool or in the lake and go for a dip. Its always well appreciated especially when it’s hot and you need to cool you off. Try out your your camping skills and combine them with your canoeing skills. Test out your upper body strength and use a double bladed paddle with kayaking. Spend time with your friends in a boat using your canoe skills and go canoeing or compete against other girls and play canoe games. Discover underwater life while wearing snorkelling gear and try snorkelling or learn how to scuba dive. Take the plunge and improve your diving skills and go diving. Combine your love for the arts and do them in the pool and do synchronized swimming. Just want to relax with friends and enjoy your day? Swimming and water games are also available. All of these wonderful activities will help us cool off after and during a hot sunny day.
Not only do we get to experience 10 days in Guelph Ontario, we also get to attend another Ontario City of our choice. See the beauty of Niagara Falls on the Niagara Falls Adventure tour. Go on an adventure tour and then to Wasaga beach after you zipline through the trees and walk a suspension bridge, or tour the scenic caves before a leisurely swim in the beach. Travel to the top of the CN Tower and discover the amazing city of Toronto and then the historical palace that holds Girl Guide Information at Casa Loma. Travel back into two eras. Visit Casa Loma and then step farther back where Medieval Times comes to life. Spend a day at the Toronto Zoo and meet 5000 different kinds of animals. Attend the Stratford Festival with a backstage workshop before a world class production. Did you hear that animals from Africa have travelled to Canada? Meet them at the African Lion Safari. Explore the great Canadian city and find clues of many famous Canadian Sites. Do the Great Toronto Scavenger Hunt. Go to Toronto's "House on the Hill" (Casa Loma) that will take you back decades. Mini Golf, Go-Carting, Rock Climbing and swimming pheww what a day! At Bingemans Park- Big Splash Waterpark. Get your hands on some fasinating experiments at the Ontario Science Center while IMAX brings science to life for you. All of these out trips sounds amazing and will give us many memories in one day to bring home.
So that is that! All the activities are so great. Its hard just to pick 4-8 of them. We will have other activities and experiences that we can look forward to as well. Shows, Performances, and much more. See you in 23 days. :)
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
A Day in the Life
If you many of you are wondering what Guiding Mosaic 2010 is going to be like in one day here is an outline of the 10 busy days we have ahead of ourselves in less than one month.
We must wake up early enough so there is enough time to get everything done before we hit our sessions. Make sure all of your stuff is water proofed, in the middle of your tent and pack your gear the same way. Then we will make our way over for breakfast and do our toiletries. We must be on the island where the activities are held by 9am. It is a 3km walk and takes about half hour to get there. By the end of the day we will have walked a lot.
First session begins at 9am and finish at 10:30. Our 2nd session is from 11 to 12:30 p.m. So we have half an hour to get to one session to the next. This is your time to swap with new friends.
After second session there is an hour lunch to relax and eat. Us, Rangers going will have a different schedule and may not have the same lunch as everyone else depending on what we are doing in that time. After lunch we will move onto the 3rd session from 2-3:30. Then after having fun with all these sessions we have another 3km walk back to our tent site. Our camp leaders will either have something planned for us to do like special activities or we will have a little bit of free time. This means we could shower, we could clean and air out our tents, chat with friends, call home or go to the store. There are many things we could do. Dinner is at 6 until about 7:30 back where we had breakfast. 7:30 we need to start making our way back to where the program is. Every night there is a different theme for show on a huge stage. In the past years they have done a Canada night, Much Music, an international night and much more. The show ends at about 10 and then you are to head back to your tent. If you are a smart one you go to bed right when you get back and not keep the rest of your camp up. If you don’t all of us will be miserable and not be able to enjoy camp because a lack of sleep.
July 11th and July 14th there will be no big activities and sessions out of the island but we do have a sub camp evening. I have no idea what we are doing on these days, maybe out trips or something. Also, this may be time to do auditions for the talent show and pick the best act out of the sub camp.
We have a busy ten days ahead of us. However, a very exciting 10 days ahead of that is the time of our lives. By now the excitement is heating up and everyone is getting ready. With little time do so much stuff is making my mind go crazy. Swaps need to be complete, last minute kit list supplies need to be picked up, tagging and labeling everything and so much more. It’s all worth it in the end. See everyone in 26 days.
We must wake up early enough so there is enough time to get everything done before we hit our sessions. Make sure all of your stuff is water proofed, in the middle of your tent and pack your gear the same way. Then we will make our way over for breakfast and do our toiletries. We must be on the island where the activities are held by 9am. It is a 3km walk and takes about half hour to get there. By the end of the day we will have walked a lot.
First session begins at 9am and finish at 10:30. Our 2nd session is from 11 to 12:30 p.m. So we have half an hour to get to one session to the next. This is your time to swap with new friends.
After second session there is an hour lunch to relax and eat. Us, Rangers going will have a different schedule and may not have the same lunch as everyone else depending on what we are doing in that time. After lunch we will move onto the 3rd session from 2-3:30. Then after having fun with all these sessions we have another 3km walk back to our tent site. Our camp leaders will either have something planned for us to do like special activities or we will have a little bit of free time. This means we could shower, we could clean and air out our tents, chat with friends, call home or go to the store. There are many things we could do. Dinner is at 6 until about 7:30 back where we had breakfast. 7:30 we need to start making our way back to where the program is. Every night there is a different theme for show on a huge stage. In the past years they have done a Canada night, Much Music, an international night and much more. The show ends at about 10 and then you are to head back to your tent. If you are a smart one you go to bed right when you get back and not keep the rest of your camp up. If you don’t all of us will be miserable and not be able to enjoy camp because a lack of sleep.
July 11th and July 14th there will be no big activities and sessions out of the island but we do have a sub camp evening. I have no idea what we are doing on these days, maybe out trips or something. Also, this may be time to do auditions for the talent show and pick the best act out of the sub camp.
We have a busy ten days ahead of us. However, a very exciting 10 days ahead of that is the time of our lives. By now the excitement is heating up and everyone is getting ready. With little time do so much stuff is making my mind go crazy. Swaps need to be complete, last minute kit list supplies need to be picked up, tagging and labeling everything and so much more. It’s all worth it in the end. See everyone in 26 days.
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