Meeting Happenings: AN ENGLISH SISTER TROOP!!! by Selina

12/6/13
Hello everyone!
It's Selina and here's an update!
Last Friday night we had a meeting.

Food
We had delicious, mouth-popping Mexican food from Frontera, courtesy of Mrs. Donna and Brittany! Dessert was this beautiful winter themed cake with the man from Cake Boss adorning the box, which apparently was all that he adorned, since the taste was a bit of a disappointment to the buds!

Meeting
Professional photos: Lately we have been trying to get some professional photos done for our whole troop, but since funds are still running low, we were hoping to find a place that could give us a discount or even a free session including copyrights to the photos. The nice folks at Portrait Innovations from the Avenue are willing to do all this for a little more than $100 bucks. This will probably be our best option.

The Surprise!: All right, as you have no doubt read in the title, here comes the special surprise of the meeting...:

We've found sisters in England!!

On Friday night, Mrs. Susan broke the news to us! Our sister Girl Scout troop, or Girl Guides as they call it, are located in a cute place near London. They all seem to super energetic and hopefully just as ecstatic as we are over here! We got to read some of the letters they sent us and respond  to them with our one. There was a lot that we had in common! I absolutely can't wait to meet them in person, it will make this trip just a whale size more special!

England: Well, other than the amazing sister trip news, England team brought us more info on transportation with the Tube. Apparently, you can get on for free if you are a student, but we are not sure if an American student would count. Still looking into that!

Iceland: We found more info on transportation and activities we could do. Brittany found some good restaurants that we were told to DEFINITELY check out. (Including a very well known hot dog stand that serves LAMB hot dogs!)

Over the past few months, we have been increasing our vocabulary in some Icelandic words. We ran out of time to learn new Icelandic words this time, but here are the words that we have learned so far!

1. Yes - Jai
2. No - Nei
3. Hello - Hallo
4. Goodbye - Bless
5. Thank you - Takk fyrir
6. My name is... - Eg heiti...
7. I'm from... - Eg er fra
8. What's your name? - Havo heitir pu?
9. Sorry - Eg bid st afsokunar
10. How are you? - havo segrou gott?
11. I'm good, and you? - Allt gott, en pu?
12. Just fine, thanks - Baro fint, takk

That is all for this week!
New posts are coming up soon!

Takk fyrir en Bless Bless!!!!

Selina :)

Meeting Happenings by Emma

Hey Guys,

Emma here.  Tonight I'm going to explain a little bit about what happens during our troop meetings. Each meeting one girl's family is assigned to make the whole troop dinner. Now we have 9 people and that might not seem like a lot, but when you're growing and eating like elephants, can you really be blamed? Anyways, the first few people who arrive help Rosie and I set up the table. That includes putting in the extra boards {to make the table longer}, putting a table cloth on, silverware, napkins, drinks, and, of course, to set the mood, light a few candles.  At the same time, we have two girls go to the creepy, dark basement and get the white board.

After everyone arrives, we help put the food on the table and sit down to eat. It's always very delicious! A custom we have all gotten used to is when Selina brings diner there's always a... surprise. She's brought octopus, fish head, duck's foot, pig blood, goose egg, and every time, they've had an acquired taste. Ah, Selina, you never fail us.

During dinner we share stories, have laughs and enjoy each other's company. When everyone has finished their meals, we start the clean up. Everyone takes their own plates into the kitchen and then just helps making everything go back to normal.

We then go into the den and begin the meeting.  Usually, we start with an opening, sometimes we say highs and lows of our week or what we're looking forward to during the weekend.  We have a Troop President who leads the meeting, and every girl has a leadership responsibility in the troop.  We run the meetings but sometimes get a little off track, so our Troop President has to keep us going. 

After we go through everything, we go to the kitchen and eat dessert.  A few words to sum this up: delicious, chaos, dancing, and music.

After all this is done it's about 9:45, and it's time for everyone to go home.