Issue 5

GM Buzz Volume 2, Issue 5 IMPORTANT NOTICE: A White Crusader Bicycle has gone missing, Anyone who finds it, please return it to Vehicle depot ASAP! Words of the Day: Bunny Hugs: Hoodies Waddaya at b’y: What are you doing or how are you (among other interpretations)

Defend Yourself!

July 13th, 2010 By: Rebecca Parra

A group of girls gathered outside in Field 1A with two Senseis to practice the art of self defense. They showed the girls how to properly kick and throw punches in case of an emergency. The most important rules to follow when trying to defend yourself are known as “The Three C’s”: stay calm, cool and collected. It is very, very important to breathe so that your muscles don’t tense up. Even in a moment of emergency, you must try to remember key details about your attacker. Things such as piercings, height, and hair color can be essential to find your attacker after you’ve contacted the police. That is the other thing that you must do; after you have been confronted, always go straight to the police! You don’t have to know karate either to be able to defend yourself. It only takes seven pounds of pressure to break a knee, so if possible, go for the knees. Let’s just hope that nothing ever happens to anyone who is here at GM, but if it does, they’ll be prepared!

On Guard!

~Special Events~ July 13th at 2pm the Special Events Team has planned a special Birthday Celebration, fun, fun, fun!!!

100 Years of Guiding!

Yesterday at eleven o’clock many girls made their way to the field on the island to take part in a fencing session with the instructor, Julian Twortus, who has been playing the sport for six years now.

By: Emily MacDonald

Before getting geared up, the participants played a partner game where they had to attempt to tag each other while using the moves that were taught to them earlier. Following the pre-activity exercises, the group gathered the gear together and started playing some matches. Great fun was This fabulous sporting session started had by all and hopefully they all learned something off with exercise activities like skipping, heel clicks, jogging, taking giant steps, hop- new and exciting! ping on one foot and other various leg movements. After a quick drink of water they made a triangle (instead of a circle) and stretched their muscles. Both stretching and warming up are important prior to the sport session to prevent injuries.

Next the instructor showed some of the moves in steps. Starting with the guard position, then using fencing footwork while staying in the same position. Soon they would start learning how to lunge and attack which, if successful in hitting the opponent, would gain them a point if they were playing a real match.

Location! Location! Location!

By: Armaity Anandasagar So have you ever heard the adage History Repeats Itself… and how many times we pass it off as old wife’s tales? July 9th, 2010 was the repetition of July 9th, 2006.

My eyes were closed and I did not want to squeeze out of my sleeping bag and face the pitter-patter of the rain. Soon the pitter-patter turned into a downpour; sheets of rain around me! I opened one eye and sneaked a peek through a small opening in the zipper to see how bad it was and whether my site was like the water front property it was July 2006. But NO! The organizers learned a few things and GM2010 has no neighborhood in the “Loch Ness Area” and so we have no Loch Ness Monster.

Green Tips

By: Jillian Ashick-Stinson

Hey Campers! GM2010 has been doing an awesome job trying to keep our carbon footprint low as we have ten days of fun, friendships and memories. The journalists at GMBuzz know that we can all do a little something more, so here a few tips: You know those cool water bottles that we got in our little swag bag? Use them after camp too! Reusable water bottles reduce the amount of energy used to make disposable plastic ones.

You know when you fill up those cool water bottles? Don’t leave the tap running. Same goes for when you wash and use the taps to fill up the solar showers. Why waste water when you don’t have to?

Don’t forget to use those lovely bins set out by the Food Services. It isn’t that hard to make a difference by separating the recyclables from the garbage.

Pick up any garbage you see on site. We know that most of the camp is spotless because of the awesome clean campers we have, but if someone has been forgetful and left some garbage around, pick it up!

Don’t wash near the taps of water. The dirty water will containment the clean water and it would take lots of resources to clean it again..

It’s A Small World After All Country: New Zealand Distance Traveled: 13, 823 km Girls: 3 leaders, 3 Rangers and 4 Guides Kia Ora! Hello! Today we decided to sit down with New Zealand, finding them in the middle of a Poi making circle. The ladies were happy to talk to us while busy showing the Canadian girls how to make the SWAPs. They were proud to show off their little country, which is roughly the size of Lake Superior and can fit inside Ontario six times! Even for being from a small country, the girls had lots of spirit, telling us how much they loved their green home. After Guiding Mosaic, the girls will continue to travel across Canada, including two days in Toronto, a pow wow in Regina that they have been invited to, and an adventure to Disneyland in Los Angeles.

By: Charlotte Roy and Jillian Ashick-Stinson

Decade Spotlight: The Roaring ‘20s By: Georgia Atkin If you visit the 1920s neighbourhood tent, called the Cotton Club after a famous 1920s club, be prepared for a very cool time! When a storm blew across camp a couple of days ago, the girls were keeping up their spirits by singing a ‘Maddie the Moose’ camp song. During the past few days, the girls have also been making crafts, including friendship bracelets and miniature toque swaps. Their upcoming neighbourhood block party will be the ‘cat’s meow’, as they are going to learn several dances from the ‘20s: the Charleston, Foxtrot and Monkey Knees. One of their projects this week is an autograph post, which they are trying to get everyone in camp to sign, so be sure to drop by!

Buckets

By: Lisa Croisier

Every time someone says a word, you put an image or a feeling to it. But why is it that we always have the same picture in our minds when it comes to a word like “sick” meaning something is “great”? Where is the rule book that tells us certain words have to mean certain things (other than the dictionary)? Cherise Roberge, Janet Roberge and their niece from British Columbia had the same thought. They decided to change the word “cool” with the meaning “awesome” to “buckets”. Instead of saying “That is so cool!”, they changed the phrase to “That is so buckets!”. Now, these word rebels are trying to get the entire world to stop the word “cool” and change over to “buckets”. So when you return home, surprise your family and friends, and tell them that they are “just so buckets”.