New Girl Guide on Target

noelle's experience as a new girl guide

My name is Noelle. I have just joined Girl Guides earlier this year, thanks to my schoolmate Grace who brought me in on "Bring a Friend Day". It has been an interesting experience for me.

In our Unit, Wembley Clover Girl Guides, we do a bunch of activities. The first thing we would normally do is play Farmer Sam. Then, we would do Guide Ring, where we’d skip around and sing. After that, we’d go on to do some stuff like a couple of weeks ago, we made terracotta houses.

We also learn about First Aid and how to treat different types of injuries, which may come in handy in the future, especially during emergencies - you never know. We’d do these scenario things where half of us are pretending to be injured people and the other half of us would be the first responders and pretend to help the injured people. We learned how to properly apply a sling and how to tie knots that are secure but easy to undo.

I love that I made new friends and learnt to work as a team. The other day, we made these puppets and performed a puppet show. I enjoyed that as well especially because I got to write the script. We also play acting games and games that include running around, like beanbag hockey which I really like and am quite good at, if I do say so myself.

There’s also a few activities we're going to do outdoors which I'm really looking forward to, like putt-putt golf, archery and camp, which we won’t be able to go on this year due to COVID-19. I really liked doing archery, even though no one from my Girl Guide Unit came, so I was alone. Yes, my arm was cramping a little, and yes, it was hot, but that didn’t stop me from becoming Katniss Everdeen. Well, I only hit the middle of the target once, but I think I’ll be able to win the Hunger Games with my archery skills.

I'm looking forward to more fun and exciting experience with Girl Guides, especially because I need more badges on my sash.

By Noelle Samosir, 11