School Holiday Chaos

 Well, school holiday break has come and gone - and it's almost quieter back at school!  Almost!

The first week was our Region Guide camp, hosted here in Tennant Creek - with girls from Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Darwin and Palmerston.  We ended up with 37 girls and 13 Leaders attending.  

And it POURED with rain, with ICY winds for most of the camp!  Tents leaking, tents down, 40km winds while canoeing... and apparently the kids loved every bit of it.  As the LIC - I was done by mid-week, but we battled it out.  Then on the last day, we had a girl test positive to Covid!  

By the end of the camp - we had managed to complete almost everything on our program - from canoeing and horses to drones and mountain biking along with UV Resin Jewelry, Mandala Rock painting, Jellyfish weaving, Constellation Cubes, Campfire (fake fire though as all the wood was wet), Guides Own, Amazing Race Style Wide Game and an Underground Mine Tour.  The only thing we didn't pull off was Solar Printing - you actually need sun for that. 

Juno was an AMAZING place to camp - and they catered for us as well.  The food was incredible - definitely not what you would expect on a Guide camp. I really can't recommend the place highly enough. 

Second week of holidays, I, along with most of the Leaders tested positive to Covid - so a week spent at home not allowed out.  Which made for a few problems trying to get the gates organised for the Show - thank heavens for some supportive people who just made it work. The dog was really quite pleased with this turn of events, though.  

Third week of holidays - quick trip to Alice for a 2 day intensive Leader training Course, from 8am to 8pm both days. And it was -3 both nights!  The car was covered in a sheet of ice the first night.  Headed home on the Tuesday - after collecting Wayne from Alice Springs Hospital where he had been for 3 weeks. 

That left a few days to get everything done at home - and back to work on Monday for a full day PD Training which ran from 8am to 4.30pm.  Pretty much need a holiday to recover! 

Any crafting that got done was at the Camp, and didn't include much paper anything!  

RAVE - Guide Leader Workshop

 You would think after nearly 40 years of doing it - that I wouldn't need training in how to run a Guide Unit/District, wouldn't you?  But there is always something new, and networking with others gives you new ideas to try out, so it's worth it. 

So the weekend just gone - we attended RAVE - Reconnect, Appreciate, Value & Enjoy.  Due to Covid, we haven't been able to have the usual trainings and meetings (because NSW can't, we can't!) so this was a good way to reconnect.

And, yes, plenty of good stuff came from it .. but I found myself bouncing between feeling inspired, and feeling like 'why the hell are we doing this?'  And I don't really know if it is me or if it is the girls and parents attitude we find today?

I am now asking myself if maybe it's finally time to just quietly walk away and be done with it?  If I am sporting a negative attitude, nothing is going to work out no matter how hard we try.  

And this also applies to school, I think. I'm finding it hard with so many of the people I resonated with having left, and watching some major changes happening.  I can't seem to find my feet or any type of solid ground at the moment. 

When I look back ...  2018 - Major heart Surgery/2019 - Wayne ill for most of the year and then 2020 was Covid and all the changes that brought.  

I think this is going to be a year of soul searching, and maybe some hard decisions to be made.