iScout

21 year old leader and member of Scouts and Girl Guiding in the UK

[thesaltyspice-deactivated201901]

I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

[bipolar-bubbeleh]

all you goyim I follow - I see you reblogging this and it warms me.

[tortiefrancis]

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[camp-counselor-life]

“Trust is the central issue in human relationships. Without trust, you cannot lead.”

—

“What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be?” by Greg Cronin, MPA, CCD, CPRP in Camping Magazine, May 2022

I think that this article is an interesting take on leadership, but it doesn’t cover how camp staff are prone to burnout. You do not need to do so much that you burn out. You can stick with what your job is and what you’re trained to do and that is ok. Don’t overextend yourself, because you can’t do your best for your kiddos if you are tired and overworked. Camp is stressful enough without pushing you to constantly do more.

There’s a different between doing your best and over-reaching.

[iscoutbecause]

First virtual peer education session! Running it for a unit at the other side of the country so not a unit I would usually get to meet!

[scottishvn]

Virtual peer education was awesome! A lovely group of girls even if there were 24 of them! They all got really involved and into it, leaders said they had been quite quiet so it was nice they decided to join in!

My own unit has 6/23 in our online sessions 😂

[iscoutbecause]

Making use of the sunshine to sort the data from the pre session quiz into a useful format to fill in my post session form.

[iscoutbecause]

First virtual peer education session! Running it for a unit at the other side of the country so not a unit I would usually get to meet!

[scottishvn]

Virtual peer education was awesome! A lovely group of girls even if there were 24 of them! They all got really involved and into it, leaders said they had been quite quiet so it was nice they decided to join in!

My own unit has 6/23 in our online sessions 😂

[iscoutbecause]

First virtual peer education session! Running it for a unit at the other side of the country so not a unit I would usually get to meet!

[flames-campfire-chats]

Opinion Q Regarding COVID 19-

Hey y’all, my college has just closed for the rest of the semester and some are saying this thing might last awhile. Summer camp is most of my income for the year so the questions are:

1. Do you think summer camps would close?

2. Are y’all thinking about looking at other jobs yet?

Not trying to cause panic, just feeling the situation out so I can start heading in what I believe is the right direction.

[camp-counselor-life]

I briefly talked about this a few days ago from a GS perspective, but I think that it’s really going to depend on how things go in the next few weeks. While my state is only on stay at home until sometime in April, I’ve seen a couple of states extend their stay at home until June in the last day or so. For my state, it was like dominoes, with things escalating from mild concern to panic in just a few days, and to more restrictions shortly after that, and as other states issued those orders, so did we. Things are constantly evolving and escalating in many cases. 

From the summer camp professionals group, I have seen that some camps are cancelling or postponing, while others are holding on to hope of a regular summer schedule. Some are even joking that after weeks of homeschooling parents will jump at the chance to send their kids to camp, although others are discussing the possibilities low enrollment and increased anxiety and homesickness.

I think it’s going to be regional for independent camps, as well as camps who are serving as child care facilities for essential workers, and dependent on what parent organizations decide for camps affiliated with a larger organizations (GS, BSA, YMCA, etc). It also largely depends on how this evolves in the next few weeks.

Is there still hope? Yes. Stay at home, wash your hands, follow the guidelines, and hopefully we will flatten the curve and things will calm down in time for us to have at least a little bit of camp. Things will almost certainly be different this summer, in one way or another.

I unfortunately can’t answer the second question for you, I’m in a much different place. If it were me, I would have taken the risk, but camp was never my primary source of income. That makes it a very different situation, and consider your options and the consequences. As much as I don’t want to tell someone not to work at camp, think of yourself as well.

[iscoutbecause]

From a UK Guiding and Scouting perspective all of out large camps in August have been cancelled. From a scientific perspective we are looking at probably a 3 month lock down here and j would expect the USA to be doing something similar.

It depends how much you need the money and how much you want to go on camp. There are jobs that if camp say a week beforehand they are going ahead you could quit. I don't know if that's helpful or not sorry.

[day-of-a-nursing-student]

DIY Candle

This easy DIY only needs 2 things: a candle and a sharpie. You can do multiple colours of sharpie if you want, I decided just to use black. The candle I got at the dollar store so this project is very cheap as well. If you want you can decide to use a template or free hand the drawing on the candle. This adds to the space creating a more personal approach.

Comment below what you think and check…

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[heroicgirls]

The Science of Becoming a Heroic Girl

There is nothing the Internet loves more than a good villain, and the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh sure looked like it fit the bill.

The Science Center offers classes for scouts, girls and boys, to get their science badges. But while the Boy Scouts have classes in Chemistry, Engineering Astronomy and two levels of basic science, the Girl Scouts offered but one solitary class:

Science With a Sparkle

Oct. 11 1 – 4 pm Ages – 8-12

Prepare to be dazzled! Dive into chemistry and learn how science relates to health and beauty products. Become a cosmetic chemist and concoct your own creations to take home.

That’s right, the only “science” offering for girls was a course on how to make make-up. We had our villain. Boo! Hiss! Carnegie Science Center, shortchanging our girls.

But not so fast.

The Science Center put out a Facebook post to address the controversy. It reads in part:

We understand your frustration and would like to offer some background:

Regarding Girl Scout-specific programming, we have struggled when it comes to enrollments for our Girl Scout programs. In the past, we have offered engineering, chemistry, and robotics programming for Girl Scouts. We created programming to go along with the new Journeys that Girl Scouts use. Unfortunately, no troops signed up for these. The programs that consistently get enrollments are “Science with a Sparkle” and our Sleepovers at the museum.

That’s right, Carnegie Science Center used to offer better science programming for girls — but no one signed up. That’s not a problem they can fix alone. That is one that we must tackle together.

We need to explain to girls why science is something they can and should do. We need to encourage their curiosity and push them to explore the  world around them with a critical eye because science is fun and amazing. We can and must get girls more involved in science and engineering, but we can’t count on a single science center to do it for us. It is something that we have to do together: parents, kids, teachers and society at large.

[taky-lele]

Three days left!

[iscoutbecause]

I wish I was going too! Have fun!

[scottishvn]

Register to vote!

Tonight is the last day to register to vote in the EU elections in the UK . These elections are really fucking important our turnout and votes will show the government what we think of brexit much as the local elections last week did.

Students you can be registered to vote both at home and university you can only vote once though so vote tactically live somewhere v left wing at home and v right wing at university? Vote at university.

I’m honestly not sure who I’m going to vote for at this stage (maybe green?). But register to vote. I have an exam the day of the election and the day after but voting is really really important so I’m going to make time!

[diy-and-crafts-awesomenes]

Ge the recipe to make these adorable cakes baked in eggshells for a cute and clever Easter treat or dessert. Kids love them. #helloyummy | Like My Facebook Page >> http://bit.ly/2QJbIlS … Saved from - http://bit.ly/2UixgaK

[staff]

The internet could change next week, and not in a good way

You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression. 

We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report. 

The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now. 

If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu. 

[arawynn]

Please reblog this as much as you reblogged the posts about Net Neutrality. 

If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content. 

You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.

You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.

You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.

Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!

We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.

And if we’re getting all our content blocked? 

You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.

You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.

So do whatever you can to help us stop this.

Reblog this.

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT ARTICLE 13 TO BE APPROVED IF YOU’RE EUROPEAN! DO IT VIA THE HOMEPAGE

[favorite-aesthetic]

Giethoorn in Netherlands has no roads or any modern transportation at all, only canals. Well, and 176 bridges too. Tourists have to leave their cars outside of the village and travel here by foot or boat by. So you can probably imagine how peaceful it is here.

[iscoutbecause]

Our path went here for the day during Roverway, it was really nice and quite a few people went for a swim in the 30°+ weather!

[united-nations-deactivated20190]

57 million primary age children remain out of school, and 617 million youth lack basic mathematics and literacy skills.

The Sustainable Development Goals aim to ensure that all boys and girls receive quality primary and secondary education by 2030. https://bit.ly/2HUe9gd

[iscoutbecause]

I did a lot about sustainable development goals on roverway over the summer, we always keep coming back to this one though.

[oldblogarchived]

english: coconut oil

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco

[disc80s]

IM CRYINGNFN

[my-name-is-long]

english: ninety-nine

french: :)

english: oh no

french: four-twenty-ten-nine

[spirited-simmer-deactivated2016]

english: potato

french: :)

english: oh geez

french: apple of the earth

[catchingjinns]

french: papillon

english: :)

french: don’t

english: beurremouche

[watercolorsheep]

French: pamplemousse English: :) French: pls no English: raisinfruit

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

english: squirrel

german: :)

english: oh dear

german: oak croissant

[languageoclock]

english: helicopter german: :) english: uh oh german: lifting screwdriver

[commie-saskia-deactivated202211]

english: toes

spanish: :)

english: no don’t

spanish : fingers of the feet

[agoraphobeifiwantto]

english: bowl

spanish: :)

english: oh lordy

spanish: deep plate

[redroomballerinas]

english: car

polish: :)

english: i changed my mind

polish:  that which walks by itself

[false-dawn]

french: coccinelle

UK english: ladybird!

american english: ladybug

french: weird

dutch: :)

french: …what

dutch: the good lord’s little animal

french: …ok

irish, polish and russian: *giggling*

french: …just tell me

irish, polish and russian: GOD’S SMALL COW

[ichikun]

English: jellyfish Japanese: :) English: what yo got Japan Japanese: ~*~*o c e a n m o o n*~*~

[languageswithceles]

English: gloves Dutch: :) English: omg what now Dutch: hand shoes

[hotairballoon221]

English: porcupine Dutch: :) English: … please, no Dutch: sting pig

[pol-yglottin]

JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

[hotairballoon221]

English: Poppy

Dutch: :)

English: … tell me

Dutch: Clap rose

[allthingsdutch]

English: Hippopotamus.

Dutch: :)

English: *sigh* Fine, say it.

Dutch: NILE HORSE.

[iscoutbecause]

With our upcoming roverway trip this seems appropriate :)

[the-mad-duchess]

Don’t just accept the new Terms of Service

Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)

OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:

Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:

Now you’ll see this page:

Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:

Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.

When we click on that one, what we will get is this:

A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.

(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)

[expatgirl]

I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.

[mathbymoonlight]

WATCH YOUR DATA

[scottishvn]

Stage one is to report it to the organisation then , in the UK at least, report it to the IOC (they may also be the ICO). They can be found by googling gdpr breach. If I as a guide leader have to be careful then Tumblr can damn we’ll follow the rules.

[justscoutthings]

Why aren’t there more scouts posts!

I need stuff to reblog I don’t have TIME TO WRITE CONTENT!!

Get Scouts on this Tumblr map of fandoms and shitposting!

[camp-counselor-life]

Yes please! I need more content for the queue :).

[iscoutbecause]

Hello :)