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lyse
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Sorry, I was out with the scouts.
prologic
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@lyse And how was that? šŸ¤”
prologic
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@lyse And how was that? šŸ¤”
lyse
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@prologic @tkanos I'm a volunteer not a leader, so I don't have a group of kids, but I help out at most events. Our yearly conference was good fun. We went through a few topics, scheduled most events for next year and assigned organizers. Later, we went on an excursion to nearby Schloss WeiƟenstein where we got a guided tour through the palace and saw super amazing microscopic shots of all sorts of things. The tour guide's dad was a pioneer on microscopic photography. The absolute highlight at the end was watching some kind of glue crystalizing live. Highly entertaining science art. I'll be back some day, that's for sure.

In order to get to the KreuzberghĆ¼tte that we rented for the weekend, we split up into two groups and went for a scavenger hunt. It took both teams a bit longer than we anticipated, but they all made it. On the way back we discovered that one group solved one quizz completely and utterly wrong, but still managed to find the final solution with the next coordinates. They parked a few meters ahead than what we had planned and found something completely different, that still perfectly matched the vaguge description on their note.

For dinner on Friday we cooked Linsen mit SpƤtzle at the hut. When we wanted to roast onions a gas smell suddenly was in the air. So we quickly shut down the gas stove and checked for leaks, but couldn't find any. Next attempt and the gas smell was back again. We knew the group before us broke one of the two pit toilets, reported the hand water pump in the kitchen to be broken (worked flawless after priming, though), didn't turn off the main gas tap, left a filthy baking tray behind, didn't close a window shutter, so we figured maybe that's also why the stove was cactus. Hence we decided to get our own gas cooking equipment from our material store. Luckily, we stayed regionally, so about one and a half hours to two later we were back in business. When finally dressing the salad we noticed, that the olive oil with truffle was the cause for the gas smell. Never use this kind of oil for browing onion, kids! Unless you wanna have a good story to tell (and delay your meal).
tkanos
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It seems very fun. I always wanted to do things like that. My sons went to scout when they were kids and then the cadets ( Sea, Army or Air Cadets ) something we only have here in Canada, is like scout but handled by the army.
lyse
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@tkanos Scouting is really great, yes! My best school mate introduced me to it some time at the end of school or beginning of uni, can't remember. I was invited to the last two days of the scout group camp he had organized. All the folks welcomed me open-heartedly and after just an hour I felt like I was with mates I knew for several years. In fact, I just met them that day for the first time. It took me about another two years to finally hand in my registration. There was just too much else going on. Since I joined very late, I couldn't be a rover (last youth section, age 16-21 here) anymore. I became a volunteer since I didn't want to start right off as a leader without even knowing the basics. And then I just stuck with it ever since. :-)

I have to add, this conference was just for our leaders round table ā€” that is leaders, volunteers and a bunch of rovers. No kids this time. But the week before we had the annual scout meeting on Saturday afternoon with the whole group, followed by a scout church service (scouting is affiliated to the church rather than the military in I suppose most of Europe). After that we had a bbq in the church yard for everybody to attend for free. I helped setting it up while most of us were in church. On Sunday we played games with all the kids, grilled stick bread on the fire and then older kids were "levelled up" to the next youth sections and got their new colored scarfs of their new troops.

German report of that weekend: https://dpsg-salach.de/2022/bericht-vom-stammeswochenende/