School just let out for the summer and now it's time for me to begin my next project! I've been in Girl Scouts since I was in first grade, and I am still involved even though my troop disbanded two years ago. I've already earned my bronze and silver awards, now the only thing left for me to do at my current Cadet level is to earn my Gold Award. I've been brainstorming different ideas for the project since December, but I'm just getting around to working on it now. The goal of the project is to find a problem in your community and fix it in a way that the change can be sustained. I was orriginally tinkering with the idea of doing something with the enviorment in the wooded trails around where I live, but in the end I chose to do something for the elderly in my community who don't have a lot of family or other company near by. I came up with the idea of setting up a letter writing correspondence between some of the people in the nursing home in my town, Village Crossings, and maybe a grade or a class out of the middle school. I really want to try to create some excitement and companionship for the elderly at Village Crossings. I also think that the kids could benefit from the experiance, as well as from hearing the experiances of the people they are wrighting to if they give it a shot and take it to heart.
So now onto the project! Today I got started reading the project path requirements the whole way through, figuring out what I'll need to do and of course creating this blog! I've just been planning and getting my ideas in order so I can send the project proposal form into the Girl Scout counsil and get this project going! As soon as I go over the plans with my wonderful project advisor, Christine Mackenzie, I'll be able to fill out the forms and get to work!
