Palaver 2014 - Friday Night

This evening, Akela and I arrived at Woodhouse to attend Palaver. Rather low key this year, with numbers down. But no doubt we are in for a good weekend. Looking at the program, there is very little crafty stuff, which will make Akela happy. She is not big on craft and prefers to be doing more active stuff with the Cub Pack!

We got to make a Jack o’Lantern, and a really nice supper with plenty of talking and catching up going on over a hot drink.

It was a early night though, as Akela still has her ear infection and taking medication. She didn’t wasn’t to over do it before the weekend started.

Archery Training Day Two

Today was a early start, before we left the scout hall and headed up the hill to Woodhouse for another day's training.

We had a chance to do more shooting, and trying to teach some youth members what to do. It was their 1st time, and they enjoyed their taste of it, they are asking their leaders to do it again!

The day flew past, and then it was time for the written aspect of the training. Now, Akela just has to do some shoots to get hours up!

It was a good weekend and glad Akela took us with her. Looking forward to getting out and about to some archery shoots in the coming months.

Archery Training Day One - with early morning fog

Today, Akela and I had a early start. We needed to be at Glen Osmond Scout Hall by 9am for the 1st day of Archery training.

We were a bit worried to start with, as there was a lot of fog around. We managed to get some photos in the city, when it was light enough to be able to take photos. It is not often that Adelaide has this much fog in the city.

Upon arrival at Glen Osmond Scout Hall, we were glad it was clear enough to be able to see clearly.

It was a good day, with both theory, hands on experience and good food. The evening was great, spending it around a open fire, talking.

Traveling Wilbur

It was with much pleasure that we received word that Traveling Wilbur arrived in Canada. He has landed in British Columbia and has started his adventures traveling through Canada. It sounds like he was heading right out for a camping trip!

As soon as we get a photo, we will post here and regular up dates as they occur.

Traveling Wilbur is on his way

Today, we finally said farewell to Traveling Wilbur and he is now on his way to Canada’s East Coast to start his world Adventure. We hope he is able to visit as many Cub Packs while he is there as he possibly can.  

Scarf for travel

Akela finished the scarf that Travelling Wilbur will wear on his travels. However, we didn’t get to the post office in time to get him sent off today. So he will be heading away on Monday, 14^th of July. We are going to miss him greatly, but we are sure that he will have a brilliant time while he is away. We know he is going to be well looked after and will get lots of attention while he is there.

Flourish 2014

Today was a early start, as Akela took me with her to attend a Leaders Conference thing. It was held at Seton Christian Church and we had to be there heaps early (8:15am). Which meant  by the time we got home after the football, I went right to bed!

At the conference thing Akela dragged me along to; we had a number of speakers. The MC was a friend of Akela’s from Rovers.

We 1^st heard from Andrew Lock, who was a Cub right through to Rover. He is currently the only Australian to have climbed all 8,000 pecks in the world and spoke about being risk adverse. We were particularly taken when he said, “Scouting gave me the basic skills needed for me to achieve my goals in life and that leaders taught me to plan and prepare for responsible risk taking”. Akela thinks there are those within scouting who are adverse to taking risk and don’t want to push either themselves and need to take a look at the way many within society are becoming risk adverse.

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg spoke “of how such adversity can be overcome with a positive approach and how Scouting is in a unique position to be an organisation that can provide a very real solution to such issues. He believes that Scout Leaders, by utilising the ‘Aims and Principles’ Scouts can teach the youth within scouting resilience.

 We then had Mark McCrindle speak about the changing trends and the characteristics of each generation, from Generation Builders to Generation X, with Generation Alpha now being born.

 Neil Fuller OAM spoke about the personal challenges he faced, losing his lower leg at 18, after a sporting accident and how he overcame and adapted. Of particular note, He said “ You can’t control everything but,

·      You can control how you perform,

·      You can do your best,

·      You can believe to achieve and

·      You can do the best you can today”.

The final speaker for the day was Amanda Gore, who spoke to us about how to create positive and vibrant emotional environments for Scouting to occur. Her presentation was both entertaining as it was humorous.  

 
There are several links here, which provide some more information about the topics covered by the guest speakers. We hope by sharing them that people will be able to understand more about the speakers we heard today.
First World Problems

Action for Happiness Posters

Andrew Lock

Akela and I snuck out a few minutes before 5pm finish, as Akela really wanted to get to the football.  The location was very close to the grange train line, and we were able to make the 5:05pm train into town. As a result, we were able to get a very good seat at the Oval (near the front, as Akela likes sitting close to the action.

The football game was good – in part because the Crows WON, which always makes us happy in Akela’s household (and Akela’s husband has accepted that we are a family of Crow Supporters!).  But this has sure made for a LONG day…..