"I just bought 3 boxes of Girl Scout cookies from my niece, which made me think back to when I was a Girl Scout selling cookies. I was telling my children about my girl scouting days. They were shocked that I could have been a Girl Scout for 15 years. I started as a brownie when I was in the second grade. I went all through to the twelfth grade as a member of a Girl Scout troop. Then I was a leader of a troop for 5 years. It was so much fun…. Not just selling the cookies, and not just eating them, but all the friends we made and shared those fun times with. My first experience camping was when I was in a Girl Scout troop. Without them, I never would have become a camper at all. My family was not a camping family when I was younger. We tried one camping trip and we borrowed a camper for it. This camper slept 6 people and was not big enough since there were 9 of us in my family, but we managed to squish 7 people in it. My brother and sister slept in the car…. NOT much fun and no space to stretch out. THAT was a fun trip! Since we are now older, we have all had our share of camping experiences, but it was being a Girl Scout that really got the camping bug going.”
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