Each day we started with a flag ceremony so that all the girls learned how to do a flag ceremony. Each day's activities were based on the country/countries that have one of the four World Centers. We broke each day down to each of the five regions of WAGGGS: 1) Asia-Pacific, 2) Europe, 3) Africa, 4) Western Hemisphere, and 5) India regions.
We had visitors who came and shared about their native country:
1) a Phillipino teen and she brought in some items native to her country. We learned that Girl Scouts/Guides would be done at school in her country because all extra curricular activities are held at school.
2) Flipper who is from London, England came with maps of Great Britain and we marked on the map the different countries within Great Britain--Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. We also made flags with popsicle sticks and 3x5 index cards. The girls really liked listening to her accent!!
3) Will, the director's son, came and told us about his trip to Africa and shared about the Masai villiage he visited there--they had to walk 3 miles just to get water! He told us about how they jump to see who can jump the highest while a drummer beats a drum. We thought we would try that too.
4) In the morning Ms. Marie came and she made caramelo for us, it's made from condensed milk boiled on medium heat for 3 hours! She brought apples for us to spread it on, it was yummy. She showed us pictures and told us all about Mexico. In a week she was to go to Mexico to get married!! Her husband to be restores ancient architecture, so they were to be married on top of a pyramid he restored.
In the afternoon, Mrs. Zip came and shared with us about Canada. She came from Canada several years ago and lives here now, she told about becoming a naturalized citizen. She spoke French for us as she's French-Canandian.
5) Mr. T came on Friday, he didn't represent a foreign country, although he's traveled to many of them. He came to share about life in the US 60 years ago, when he was a young man. This was part of a patch requirement. He had a newspaper that dated back to 1940!! We asked him lots of questions and he showed us an iron his mother used. It didn't plug in--you had to heat it on the stove (woodburning)! Clothes and washmachines and other stuff looked funny in th pictures in the newspaper. He told how ice was delivered to your house in huge chunks and put into your refrigerator to keep things cool.
We made lots of crafts: beadie animal key chains, animal handbags, papercutting decorations, mosaic tiles, animal necklaces, Kawanza necklaces, British flags, a Ricka-dan-do (from song the Princess Pat), fishbowl tic-tac-toe game, and booklets of different Girl Guide uniforms of the countries.
We sang lots of camp songs, one of our favorites was the Princess Pat!
We also learned games from the different countries and a game about WAGGGS.
We listened to Brownie stories from other countries too.
Most important we had FUN!