YOU CAN

One day frogs arranged a wall climbing competition. The wall was so high that spectators were shouting that it is impossible for a frog to reach the top. One by one frogs began to fall due to exhaustion and one by one they gave up... Except for one.

He was a tiny frog. This frog was very exhausted but kept climbing. Spectators told him to give up but he did not. Eventually he reached the top. They wanted to know how he did it and found out that the frog was DEAF! :)


Lesson: Don't listen to dream crushers!!! Go for yours! Go GIRL SCOUT! :) You can do it if you think you can..:)

Senior and Cadet Planning Board Conference

Alona Suzell Ruyeras

SMAD- Davao Council

On the 28^th day of July 2007, the Girl Scouts of the Philippines Davao Council conducted the Senior and Cadet Planning Board Conference. The event which was held at the Davao Council office at Ponciano St., Davao City, was participated by the Chairman, Vice-chairman and Scribe of both the senior and cadet planning board in each school. Six more representatives are sent by the participating schools to represent them in the two clubs of the GSP, the Junior Journalist Guild (JJG) and Radio Television (RTV).

Aside from development of skills and emergence of camaraderie among members, the main objective of the conference is to elect new officials and organize the government system of GSP Davao Council. The said event started with an opening ceremony which included the entry of colors, reciting of promise and law and the community singing of the song “We are the Girl Scouts”. Tita Enriqueta Abanilla delivered her welcome address. Dawn Baluso from Davao City National High School followed after with her inspirational message which focused on the conference’s theme: “Girl Scouts World Wide say: building a better world”.

The opening ceremony ended with the singing of the same community song, “We are the Girl Scouts”. Tita Beatriz Hualde, better known as Tita Betty imparted her talk regarding discovering the potentials of each Girl Scout. Her lecture contained the life skills that each Girl Scout must possess and the rights that every Girl Scout has. Tita Nenita Navales or Tita Nitz was next as she discussed about the ill-effects of drugs especially on the youth of these days. She gave a group activity after which was called DDD (Describe a Drug Dependent). The patrols had the reporting regarding the body of a drug dependent and performed their given challenge such as song composition and role play.

The next facilitator. Tita Enriqueta Abanilla, carried out a game for the group which tested the knowledge of the girls on the history of scouting, its laws and its founders. When the game was through, the girls were given ten minutes to discuss and organize the yearlong activities which were done by school. One by one, the schools reported their plan of action. After finishing all the presentations, the Senior Senior Planning Board (SPB), Cadet Planning Board (CPB), Junior Journalist Guild (JJG) and Radio Television (RTV) were given the time to meet and create a similar action plan but now it was done by club. The continuation of the planning and organization of activities continued the next day. After all the discussions, the elections of the SPB, SPB, JJG and RTV took place.

The conference ended with the hope that each club would be productive and effective not only for the organization, the Girl Scouts of the Philippines, but also for the betterment of the society.

Clover

In this life, we can't expect too much...It is unfair. We can't change it. There are lots of opposites!! You want to do one thing, but you can't. You have to go even if you don't want to because you are obliged. You take things for granted even though you know that you must not take anything for granted! That is the circle of life...And the least we can do is go round with it..:)

Yup...Senior year is very tiring and exhausting... :( But because of this clover... I felt contentment.

The clover in which I saw at the wall with the colors of our flag. The clover printed in my ID. And the same clover printed in my dress. Nothing was as fulfilling looking at it.
With the accessories....the pins and the badges.....I felt respected...I had power....Power not for my own selfish reasons but for the goal of GIRL SCOUTING.


Because of this clover I had learned the essence of leadership:

A TRUE LEADER HAS THE CONFIDENCE TO STAND ALONE, TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS AND THE COMPASSION TO LISTEN TO OTHERS. SHE DOES NOT SET OUT TO BE A LEADER, BUT BECOMES ONE BY THE QUALITY OF HIS ACTIONS AND THE INTEGRITY OF HIS INTENT. AND IN THE END, LEADERS ARE MUCH LIKE EAGLES, THEY DON'T FLOCK. YOU FIND THEM ONE AT A TIME. :)

Dorothy Joy E. Bacomo
Agusan Council