I know it was very quiet lately on my blog. I am sorry for that but there is not much to tell at the moment. I was working until Friday. Now my internship is over and I can enjoy some free time before I go back to University on the 17th. But my days are rather filled up already. There seems to be little time for dolce fa niente. But I am ok with that. It's not that quantity that's important, it's the quality .-).
So today I would like to share with you some thoughts about my oldest passion: Scouting! The youth organisation is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and it still is very young at heart ;-). Honestly. Scouting was the best part of my life for years after years. I joined when I was about 8 years old and spent every Saturday with it afterwards for more than ten years. Much more actually. But scouting was always more than just a hobby. It is where I met most of my oldest friends and we still love each other. It is where I learnt to cook, to knot, to build up a tent, to light a fire, to pond streams. It is where I first spent time apart from my parents at my first camps, where I first took over responsibility (by being a leader for the girls aged 5 to 12, for the Saturdays or during the camps), where I first got abroad without my parents (for a hike with the bike), where I first “possessed” a leadership role (as well as being a role model for the young ones) and it is my first international experience (in an international camp in Interlaken, Switzerland (2001), Iceland (2002) and Belgium (2003)).
But it is also where I first spent time with 24'000 people (and so far my only time). This was at the national camp of 1994. It was an incredible experience and I still often think about it. This camp will now be „reinvented“, so to speak. Next year there will be another national camp. It might not be as big as the last one but I am sure it will make as big an impression on the participants as it did to me back in 94. So now that you get to hear more and more about that camp I am more and more tempted to take part in it. To enjoy it all for the last time. To give something back to the organisation that formed me and is, at least this is my belief, responsible to a huge amount for making me the person that I am today. I am really tempted. I have not have given in but I might…given a good opportunity I really might. After all it is not that different to being part of AIESEC. There is actually just one difference. AIESEC is run by students for students with the purpose of a career or at least a good preparation for a good career whereas scouting is run by teenagers mostly for kids. I took over my first group at Christmas 94. So I was still very young but I loved it. I just did, what I had to do. I didn’t think too much. I was not thinking of a strategy, there was no year-plan that we worked hard on but many tools which are much simpler but have the same effect. It is really amazing how well it always worked just by enjoying what you did. This is maybe the biggest difference to us doing something as adults. Sometimes we try really hard and put a lot of time in effort in something. But if we would just follow our heart we might even get a better result, without too much thinking and planning.
But maybe I get carried away here . Anyway I just like to thank all those great people out there who made it possible for me to get such a great scouting experience. Thank you B.P. (founder of scouting) for that idea! My childhood would not have been the same without it.
For those of you who have no clue what I am talking about I am sorry. I am sorry, not because you think that I must be crazy, but sorry because you really missed something. And this can not be experienced now. That is gone, forever. All the others who know what I am talking about, smile and enjoy the videos.
Amen ;-)
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