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Index 3 Rules 4-5 Maps 6 Itinerary 7 Duties rota 8 About Switzerland 9-12 German words and

phrases 13 Our Chalet 14 UK Friendship

Badge 15-20 Songs 21 World Badge and

Flag 22-23 World Guiding

badge syllabus 24-28 Journal 29-31 Addresses 32-33 Logic Problem—

Challenge 34-35 Board game 36 Wordsearch

37-39 Great Guide or Trembling Tender-foot?

40-41 Logic Problem—Our Chalet

42-43 Star Chart 44-46 Hexaflexagons 47-48 Fortune teller 49 Knot: Round

Crowning 50 Knot: Rolling

Boatswain’s Weave 51 Knot: Portuguese

Sennit 52-56 Fingerloop

Braiding 56-58 Pipecleaner

teddy bears 59-60 Code wheels 61-63 Pompoms 63 I spy bingo 64 What’s in the bag? 65 Answers to puzzles

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. —John Howard Payne (1791-1852)

I went to Switzerland on holiday and all I brought back was... Ich ging in die Schweiz auf Ferien und Ich brachte nur ... zuruck This t-shirt diese T shirt This badge diese Abziechen These photos diese Photos These memories diese Erinneriungen These friendships Diese Freundshaften This tired Guider diese müde Pfadfinderin-Leiterin This dirty washing diese schmützige Wäsche

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Our Rules Look after each other

Don’t go off alone sign in and out when you do go out

Introduce any gentleman friends to us

No chewing gum

Don’t go to bed angry

A hug a day keeps sadness at bay (don’t forget that lead-ers give good hugs)

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Great Guide or Trembling Tenderfoot? Count up your scores: 1) a1 b4 c2 d3 2) a3 b1 c2 3) a2 b3 c1 4) a1 b3 c1 5) a1 b2 c2 6) a1 b2 7) a1 b3 c2 8) a3 b2 c1 d4 9) a2 b1 c3 d 10) a4 b3 c2 d1 If you scored: 10-15—Oh dear, you’re a real trembling tenderfoot aren’t you? Better get out that G-file and have a go at a few Go For Its! 15-20—You’ve got the basics but a few more Guiding skills under your belt won’t harm. How about doing some interest badges and make your blanket a bit fuller? 20-25—Great skills! Have you thought about being a patrol leader, or perhaps a Rainbow or Brownie pack leader? Go and get teaching those skills to others. 25-30—What a Guide! You’re all ready for the Senior Section, have you got your turquoise uniform together already? Logic Problem—Challenge 1. Harriet, Roses, Party Planner, Crafts 2. Sarah, Penguins, Communicator, Backwoods Cooking 3. Jessica, Pandas, First Aid, Camping 4. Emily, Taj Mahal, Music Zone, Dry slope skiing 5. Katie, Shamrocks, Chocolate, Mini pioneering. Logic Problem—Our Chalet 1. Harpa, Iceland, Mountain railway, A carved troll 2. Nyaga, Ghana, Cable cars, Seed pod woggle 3. Sofia, Italy, Ice disco, Beeded Italy Flag 4. Veronique, Canada, Toboggan run, Maple leaf badge 5. Nozomi, Japan, Caves, Geisha peg doll Codewheels Rotate 10. GUIDES ARE GREAT (6K834I 0H4 6H40J) Rotate 23. BT P6T 3UU 83 7BX8ET60P2S (WE ARE OFF TO SWITZERLAND) 6 IOL 6B4F8N OUR CHALET S/A TW 79W7S9WV BE PREPARED 1/A LJVYOR05’1 K30WRWP CAMPFIRE’S BURNING

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• Blank postcard (check out the World Guiding Badge) • Embroidery thread and safety pins for friendship

bracelets. • Pipe cleaners for making teddy bears. You can make

clothes for them in the evenings at the chalet. • Currency converter. Stick this in your wallet so you

know what you’re spending. • Film cannister for keeping all those small things in,

like safety pins and game counters • Some game counters (get a die from the Guiders—

but try not to lose it!) • Hexaflexagon template. If you want to do another

one, ask a Guider for another template or draw up your own.

• Notebook and pen, for all those little things you want to jot down

• Badges for swapping with people we meet. • Split ring and card for code wheels • Cardboard rings and wool for pompoms. • Paper squares for fortune tellers or any other origami

you might know. • Plastic bag for rubbish/illness. Keep the coach tidy. But bear in mind! Waste not, want not. If you have a colour of wool, embroidery thread or pipe cleaner you don’t like—swap with somebody else. Also available: • World badge templates. • A knot book, for having a go at more knots. • Material for bear clothes.

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Although Swiss Scouts and Guides started separate movements soon after Scouting and Guiding were started up in England, the two groups merged in 1987 to be the Swiss Guide and Scout Move-ment. SGSM. Their promise: With the help of God, with your help and happily I promise to do my best: • To study in detail the value of our

Scout Law • To search for the meaning of my life • To be involed in the community where

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Itinerary

Saturday 6th

Sunday 7th

Monday 8th

Tuesday 9th

Wednesday 10th

Thursday 11th

Friday 12th

Saturday 13th

Sunday 14th

Morning Afternoon Evening

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.

Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears —Glenn Clark

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Here’s a plain one Alison made. You can do speckledy by using two col-ours of wool at once, but it’s harder to get two bits of wool through the hole towards the end.

Better keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open it and re-move all doubt—Sir Denis Thatcher

I Spy Bingo List 1 point ◊ Roundabout ◊ Traffic lights ◊ Bicycle ◊ Cow (still 1 point for a field

full) ◊ Sheep (ditto) ◊ Dog ◊ Pushchair/buggy/pram 3 points ◊ TIR sign on lorry ◊ Electricity Pylons ◊ Church with an “onion” ◊ Tunnel ◊ Horse (still 3 points for a

field full) ◊ Cat ◊ Picnic area sign ◊ Brown car ◊ Mobile phone mast

5 points ◊ Barge ◊ Mountain ◊ Church with a spire ◊ Church with a tower ◊ Campsite sign ◊ Level crossing ◊ Flag ◊ Railway station ◊ Pig (still 5 points for a field

full) ◊ Horse Box 10 points ◊ Border crossing ◊ Bicycle towing a trailer ◊ Black squirrel ◊ Crane ◊ Lorry full of logs ◊ Black fox ◊ Mountain goat

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6 At this point you need to be in the chalet so that you can use scissors. Pick a point on the edge and ease the wool aside so that you can see the card.

7 CAREFULLY (in case the scis-sors slip) get one blade of the scis-sors between the two cards and start to snip the wool.

8 Here it is snipped part way. Keep going...

9 Here it is all snipped. (See, I changed colour and it’s stripey) Now get yourself another length of wool.

10 Tie the piece of wool TIGHTLY between the two pieces of card. You can remember the reef knot can’t you? :-)

11 (No picture) Tear out the pieces of card and fluff up the wool. If needed, trim any long bits—but make sure you collect the trim-mings up and put them in the bin.

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Duties Rota

Friday 5th

Saturday 6th

Sunday 7th

Monday 8th

Tuesday 9th

Wednesday 10th

Thursday 11th

Friday 12th

Saturday 13th

Sunday 14th

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Switzerland—Confoederatio Helvetica • Capital: Bern City • Area: 41,285 km² (15,940 square miles) • Highest and lowest: Mount Monte Rosa ("Dufourspitze"),

4634m; Lake Maggiore ("Lago Maggiore"), 193 m • Time Zone: Central Europe (GMT +1 hour) • Switzerland hosts about 20% of the Alps. Approximately 100

peaks are close to or higher than 4,000 meters above sea level. • There are more than 3000 km² of glaciers and firn in Switzer-

land. • There are 23 Kantone (cantons) [like our counties] • National flower? There are no such things as a national motto,

a national flower or a national animal. However, some can-tons do have a motto or an animal. The "Edelweiss" has the status of an inoffical national flower.

• Official languages: German (74%), French (20%), Italian (4%) and Romansh (1%) . Adelboden is in a German speak-ing area, but is near to a French speaking area.

• Switzerland first formed in 1291 and became an independent nation in 1648. It is independent from Europe and neutral.

• Money: "Schweizerfranken" ("Swiss Francs") or short "Franken". One hundred "Rappen" make up one Swiss Franc. CHF is the ISO representation for Swiss francs; how-ever, the old notation sFr. is still used quite often.

COINS 5 Rappen ("Fünfer") 10 Rappen ("Zehner") 20 Rappen ("Zwanziger") ½ Franken ("Fünfziger") 1 Franken ("Fränkler") 2 Franken ("Zweifränkler") 5 Franken ("Fünfliber") (1 & 2 Rappen aren’t used any more)

NOTES 10 Franken 20 Franken 50 Franken 100 Franken 200 Franken 1000 Franken See your currency cnverter card for how much things are worth at the current exchange rate.

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Pompoms To make pompoms you need 2 card-board rings and some wool. It is use-ful to have a needle as well. At the end you need scissors, so that bit has to be done at the chalet and not on the coach.

2 Start wrapping the wool around the rings.

1 Hold the two rings together so the holes line up.

3 Wrap the wool around tightly and evenly. On the first layer, you don’t cover all the card.

4 But after a few layers, you can’t see any card. It’s even thickness right around the ring though.

5 You can change colour part way through. Keep going till you can’t get the wool through the middle any more, even using the needle. Make sure it’s a really tight hole.

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the "C" and so on. Now rotate the inner wheel by 6 so that the G on the outer wheel lines up with A on the inner wheel, as in the picture. Using the outer wheel for the original message and the inner for the encoded message, you can now translate “HELLO” into “B8FFI”. Translating from the inner wheel to the outer wheel, the code “QILF7” means “WORLD”. Try encoding this: Rotate 10 GUIDES ARE GREAT Try decoding this: Rotate 21 BT P6T 3UU 83 7BX8ET60P2S The other important thing is to decide a way to tell the rightful reader of your message how far to turn the wheel so they can de-code it, but others can’t. One method is to put the turn length first, such as “6 QILF7”, another would be to write a pair of letters which line up such as G/A or P/J. or for a long message you could put secret marks on a couple of letters to tell the recipient which letters match up, or if you had a mark on the 20th letter in the mes-sage, you rotate the wheel by 20. Try decoding these: 6 IOL 6B4F8N S/A TW 79W7S9WV 1/A LJVYOR0N’1 K30WRWP Of course, if you’re trying to intercept a message, you won’t know the clue so look for anything strange about the message, repeated letters and short words - there are only so many 1 and 2 letter words in the English language—that does assume the message is in English! Can you figure out this message? LZJXX MT1 RFS3 MFYX RFI MFYYJW MFX—FXP MJW YT KNSI TZY NK 3TZ FWJ WNLMY There’s also a message elsewhere in the booklet, the first person to break it wins a prize.

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Swiss-German Words and Phrases English Swiss German Switzerland Schweiz

Numbers 0 null 1 eins 2 zwei 3 drei 4 vier 5 fünf 6 sechs 7 sieben 8 acht 9 neun 10 zehn 11 elf 12 zwölf 13 dreizehn 14 vierzehn 15 fünfzehn 16 sechzehn 17 siebzehn 18 achtzehn 19 neunzehn 20 zwanzig 21 einundzwanzig 22 zweiundzwanzig 30 dreissig 31 einunddreissig 32 zweiunddreissig 40 vierzig 50 fünfzig 60 sechzig 70 siebzig 80 achtzig 90 neunzig

100 hundert 200 zweihundert 1000 tausend 2000 zweitausend ½ ein Zweitel ⅓ ein Drittel ¼ ein Viertel Time morning der Morgen der Vormittag noon der Mittag afternoon der Nachmittag evening der Abend night die Nacht midnight Mitternacht today heute yesterday gestern tomorrow morgen Monday Montag Tuesday Dienstag Wednesday Mittwoch Thursday Donnerstag Friday Freitag Saturday Samstag Sunday Sonntag

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Travel and Directions map die Karte north Norden east Osten south Süden west Westen left links right rechts in front vorn behind hinten trail der Weg der Pfad road die Strasse motorway die Autobahn train der Zug Railway die Eisenbahn station der Bahnhof time table der Fahrplan boat das Boot ship das Schiff Bus der Bus bicycle das Fahrrad das Velo by foot zu Fuss ticket die Eintrittskarte die Fahrkarte das Billett passport der Reisepass departure die Abfahrt arrival die Ankunft Walk gehen Hike wandern Run rennen / laufen Swim schwimmen Dive tauchen Are we nearly there yet? Sind Wir shon da?

I’m bored! Ich langweile mich! Places House das Haus Tower der Turm castle das Schloss die Burg Hut die Hütte shelter der Unterstand Door die Tür die Türe Floor das Stockwerk village das Dorf Town die Stadt Hill der Hügel mountain der Berg valley das Tal River der Fluss Lake der See meadow die Wiese flower die Blume Tree der Baum forest der Wald General useful stuff Open offen closed geschlossen no admittance kein Zugang gesperrt entrance der Eingang Exit der Ausgang emergency exit der Notausgang Toilet Toilette Ladies Damen frauen Gentlemen Herren Mannen

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Code wheels You have two circles of white card and a split pin in your bag, for making code wheels. Using the protractor below, mark off 36 sectors on both wheels and then mark the alpha-bet followed by the numbers 0-9 in the seg-ments. Be careful to make the letter O and the number 0 easily distinguishable, and the num-

How to use the code wheel. Rotate the two wheels so that the A on the outer wheel aligns with the "A" on the inner wheel. All of the letters and numbers on the two wheels should now align, the "B" with the "B", the "C" with

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10 And do the same the other side. 11 Make a twist around for the waist. 12 If the arms are a little loose twist them around once near the shoulder, to keep them together.

13 Bend the end of the legs under, adjusting the length so the bear looks suitably proportioned.

14 Bend the ends of the arms and legs up, to make paws.

15 Bend the middle bump of the head down, to make a nose. 16 Bend the legs at the knees, if desired. 17One pipe-cleaner teddy bear.

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Food and Drink chips Pommes frites fruit die Frucht nut die Nuss meat das Fleisch sausage die Wurst chocolate die Schokolade fish der Fisch milk die Milch hot chocolate heisse Schokolade water das Wasser mineral water das Mineral-wasser ... sparkling mit Kohlensäure .... still .ohne Kohlensäure lemonade die Limonade Eat essen Drink trinken Shopping & Post How much is it? Was kostet? Postcard die Postkarte Stamp die Briefmarke One stamp (2 stamps) for a postcard to England please . Einen Briefmarke (zwei Briefmarken) fur eine Postkarte nach England bitte Yellow Post Box der gelb Briefkasten Is there a post box here? Gibt es hier ein Briefkasten? Greetings and useful phrases Hi Grüezi Hello Guten Tag

Good bye Auf Wiedersehen Tschüss Please Bitte Thanks Danke Excuse Me Endschuldigung Sie Do you speak English? Sprechen Sie Englisch? What's your name? Wie ist Ihr Name? / Wie heissen Sie? My name is Marie Meine Name ist Marie. Ich heisse Marie. I come from England Ich komme aus England I am X years old Ich bin X Jahre alt. I am a Guide/Scout Ich bin auf der Pfadi (I am on the Path) Guide die Pfadfinderin Scout die Pfadfinder Please call the ambulance fire brigade police! Bitte rufen Sie einen Krankenwagen die Feuerwehr die Polizei! HELP! HILFE!

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is con-stantly making exciting discover-ies — A A Milne

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Pronunciation (Swiss German) VOWELS Most of the time, pronounce all vowels individually a as in father ä is sometimes pronounced as in bear (eg Bärn) and sometimes as in paid (eg spät) ai as in lie au as in house äu as in oil e as in day or wet ee roughly as in day ei as in height or sometimes as in free eu approximates to an ü sound i as in leek ie as in free o as in bottom or rose ö is like the French eu, or the “urgh” in the middle of “colonel” u as in boot ü is like the French u, or a tight-lipped version of true y is a double-length ee – Schwyz is pronounced shveets CONSONANTS There are no silent consonants. Differences from English include the following: ch is a strong throaty rasp, as in the Scottish loch gg is pronounced “ck”: “Egg” is eck, and may even be written as Eck j is like an English y: “Jura” is yoora k has a throaty rasp attached to it: danke is transliterated as dunk-cha s is like a softened English z sp at the start of a word is pronounced shp st is always pronounced sht w is like an English v z is always pronounced ts The Swiss flag is a white cross on a red background

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6 Bend the "legs" back again You get a zigzag with 3 bends at the top - these are the ears and nose and make up the head.

4 Bend the two “legs “ back from where you are pinching it.

5 So that you get an M shape

7 I'm only showing this spread out so you can see - in fact it should all be squished close to-gether so you can't see the bends, really.

8 Make a twist just under the bends which make up the head - this is the neck.

9 Now make a bend just over 2cm along one of the "legs", and bend it back under - this is an arm.

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Pipe cleaner teddy bears 1 Take a pipe-cleaner. 2 Fold the pipe-cleaner in half 3 Pinch the bent end, just under a centimetre from the end.

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Situated high up in the mountains (1,350 metres/4,500 feet above sea level), on the outskirts of the beautiful Swiss Alpine village of Adelboden, Our Chalet is located in the very heart of the spectacular Bernese Oberland. Our Chalet was the World Association’s first centre. In 1929, the World Committee of WAGGGS met in Holland and decided that a World Centre should be built for all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in the world to share. The building was started in 1931 and finished by May 1932, It was opened that July by the World Chief Guide, Olave Baden-Powell, and Mrs Helen Storrow. Since then it has welcomed over 60,000 resi-dential guests as well as thousands of day visitors. It is popular in the winter for skiing, and in the summer for hiking and sight-seeing. During the Second World War these years, the Chalet was closed to regular guests; however it played an important role in helping to reunite refugees who had arrived in Switzerland with lost friends and family through Guiding and Scouting connec-tions around the world.

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UK Friendship Badge This badge is given to Guides and Girl Scouts round the world as a sign of international friendship.

The four flowers represent the four countries of the United Kingdom. The Red Rose is the symbol for England, the Daffodil for Wales, the Thistle for Scotland and the Shamrock for Ulster or Northern Ireland.

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even when you’re half cracket—Unknown

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Barges Out of my window looking in the night I can see the barges' flickering light Silently flows the river to the sea And the barges too go silently

Barges I would like to go with you I would like to sail the ocean blue Barges have you treasures in your hold? Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?

Away from my window on into the night I will watch til they are out of sight Taking their cargo far across the sea I wish that someday they'd take me How my heart longs to sail away with you As you sail across the ocean blue But I must stay beside my ocean clear As I watch you sail away from here Out of my window looking in the night I can see the barges' flickering light Starboard shines green and port is glowing red You can see them flickering far ahead Go Well and Safely Go well and safely, x3 The Lord be ever with you Stay well and safely, x3 The Lord be ever with you

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Square pattern

If you pick up the inner loop from the top, so that it is not twisted, you will make two separate 5-strand braids instead of one 10-strand. This is a useful way to put slits in your braids for fastening, decoration, etc.

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Fingerloop braiding These directions are for 5-loop braids (10 strands). • Take 5 lengths of yarn, double them over, and tie the

ends to something. Perhaps tie a knot and use a safety pin to attach them to your leg.

• Hold your left hand palm up, and put one of the five loops over your second, third and fourth fingers

• Hold your right hand palm up, and put the last two loops over your second and third fingers, one loop for each finger.

• If you tip your hands slightly toward each other, you will see that each loop now has a top and a bottom.

• Reach your right index finger (which doesn't have a loop) through the two loops on your right hand, pick up the inside loop (from your little finger) on your left hand from the bottom, and pull it back through.

• The loop twists as you transfer it from your left to your right hand.

• Now you should have two loops on your left hand, on your second and third fingers, and three loops on your right hand.

• Move the loops on your right hand so that they are over your second, third and fourth fingers, leaving your index finger free. This can be done one-handed by "walking" them down, which is easier to do than to explain.

• Repeat the first step of the braid, but with the hands reversed. With your left index finger, reach through the two loops on your left hand, pick up the inner loop on your right hand from the bottom, and bring it back through. Walk down the loops on your left hand.

• You should be back to the initial starting position.

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Canadian Vespers Softly at the close of day As our campfire fades away Silently each Guide should ask Have I done my daily task Have I kept my honour bright Shall I guiltless sleep tonight Have I done and have I dared Everything to 'Be Prepared' Land of the Silver Birch Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver Where still the mighty moose wanders at will

Blue lake and rocky shore I will return once more Boom-diddi-eye-di, boom-diddi-eye-di Boom-diddi-eye-di, boom

My heart is sick for you, here in the lowlands I will return to you, hills of the north Swift as a silver fish, canoe of birch bark Thy mighty waterways carry me forth There where the blue lake lies, I'll set my wigwam Close to the water's edge, silent and still Our Paddles Keen and Bright Our paddles keen and bright, flashing like silver Swift as the wild goose flies, dip, dip, and swing Dip, dip, and swing them back, flashing like silver Swift as the wild goose flies, dip, dip, and swing

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MM, MM, I'd Like to Linger Mm, mm, I'd like to linger Mm, mm, a little longer Mm, mm, a little longer here with you Mm, mm, its such a perfect night Mm, mm, it doesn't seem quite right Mm, mm, that it should be my last with you Mm, mm, and come December Mm, mm, I will remember Mm, mm, our campfire bright and friendships true Mm, mm, and as the years go by Mm, mm, I'll think you you and sigh Mm, mm, this is goodnight and not goodbye Make New Friends Make new friend but keep the old One is silver but the other gold A circle is round, it has no end That's how long I want to be your friend

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Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Ad-venture is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obsta-cles of life — facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, dis-covering our own unique potential. — John Amatt, organiser and participant in Canada’s first suc-cessful expedition to the summit of Everest

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.—Horace Walpole, English Novelist

If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z; X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut. —Albert Einstein

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Tzena Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena Can't you hear the music playing In____ the village square? Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena Can't you hear the music playing In____ the village square? Tzena, Tzena, join the celebration There'll be people there from evey nation Dawn will find us dancing in the sunlight Dancing in the village square Edelweiss Edelweiss, Edelweiss Ev'ry morning you greet me Small and white, clean and bright You look happy to greet me Blossoms of snow, may you bloom and grow Bloom and grow forever Edelweiss, Edelweiss Bless my homeland forever!

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Coming of the Frogs Mine eyes have seen the horror of the coming of the frogs They are sneaking through the swamps, they are lurking under logs You can hear their mournful croaking through the early morning fog The frogs keep hopping on

Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, croak, croak Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, croak, croak Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, croak, croak The frogs keep hopping on

The frogs have grown in numbers and their croaking fills the air There's no place to escape to 'cause the frogs are everywhere They've eaten all the flies and now they're hungry as a bear The frogs keep hopping on I used to like the bullfrogs like to feel their slimy skin Liked to put them in my teacher's desk and take them home again You can hear their mournful croaking through the early morning fog The frogs keep hopping on

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For square crowning, change direction after every round.

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Turn it over so you can see the folds and not the flaps.

Again fold the corners to the middle

Turn it over and we have 4 square flaps meeting in the middle

Fold it along the gaps between the squares, to give these lines more flexibility

Fold the square in half. Push the corners together so the flaps open up. You get something like this: Label the insides with choices, predictions or dares...

When you’re arguing with a fool, make sure he isn’t doing the same thing.

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The World Badge and the World Flag The Trefoil, used on the World Badge, is the unifying symbol of WAGGGS (the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts). Every part has a meaning. The golden Trefoil on a bright blue background repre-sents the sun shining over all the children of the world; the three leaves represent the three-fold Promise as originally laid down by the Founder; the base of the stalk represents the flame of the love of humanity; the vein pointing upwards through the centre of the Trefoil represents the compass needle pointing the way; and the two stars represent the Promise and Law. A white blaze in the lower, right-hand corner represents WAGGGS' commitment to peace; this is crowned by three golden blocks symbolizing the three-fold Promise. You can get a template of the World Badge from the Guiders when we’re at the Chalet, if you want to make up a game with it.

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World Guiding

How much of this badge can you do this holiday? There are lots of hints in this book-let. Get a leader to sign you

off when you finish a clause. If you do 5 clauses, when you get home you can bug your Guider for the badge. Show her these pages to prove you’ve done it. 1. Guides all around the world sing Taps Learn Taps

in another language and sing it at the end of a Unit meeting.

2. Ask your Guider about corresponding with a Guide abroad

3. Girl Scouts in the USA sell cookies every year to raise money. Make some cookies or sweets, sell them and send the proceeds to The Guide Friend-ship Fund.

4. Make and play a game based on the World Badge and/or World Flag and know what each part of the Badge and flag stand for.

5. In some countries in the past, Guiding was sup-pressed for political reasons and Guides had to hide their uniforms etc. What six items would you choose to hide to keep the Guiding spirit alive and why?

6. Imagine that you are at one of the World Centres. Design and write a postcard to your Patrol at home. You should include such things as the weather, people you have met, food and your journey.

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Fortune Tellers Take a sheet of paper and make it square.

Make two diagonal folds in the paper. Fold the corners into the centre, to get these folds

So it looks like this:

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How to Flex Having made your flexagon, you can now start flex-ing. First, pinch together two triangles at a corner of the hexagon. Push the opposite corner down and in to-wards the centre. You can now open out the middle to reveal a new face. If you can't get it to work, try the next corner. You can decorate or number the faces as you find them. The faces don't always appear in the same orientation - sometimes they point different ways. You can deco-rate the faces to show this - say with a picture that only comes together once in a while, or with geomet-ric shapes.

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7. Invite someone who has visited one of the World Centres or an international camp to come and talk to your Unit or Patrol about their trip.

8. Either: Dress yourself or a friend in the uniform of a Guide from a WAGGGS region other than Europe. You could adapt your own clothes or use paper, etc. Or; Find out the Law and Promise of five overseas Guide Associations, one from each of the five WAGGGS regions.

9. Either: With your Patrol or Unit, celebrate Think-ing Day in an unusual place. Or: Take part in “Thinking Day On The Air” or “Jamboree On The Air”.

10.Give or send a Friendship badge to someone who lives abroad and tell them what it means.

11.Either: Take part in an international camp in the UK or abroad. Or: Host or entertain a Guide from another country.

12. Start a campfire blanket, or if you already have one, explain where the badges came from. Which badges can you swap or give to others if you go abroad?

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Logic Problem—Our Chalet The Guides from 14th Bramley Guides went to Switzerland to visit Our Chalet. They met up with some Guides and Scouts from other countries while they were there. They swapped gifts, with the Bramley Guides giving their new friends UK Friendship Badges, their County badges and a handmade paper rose (to represent England.) • Nozomi, a Japanese Girl Scout, swapped a peg

doll dressed in traditional geisha costume. • They met up with Guides from Africa in the ca-

ble cars and the Asian Girl Scouts in the caves. • The Italian Girl Scouts had made flags out of safety pins and seed beeds to swap. • They met no Europeans on the tobog-

gan runs. • Sofia taught them to say Buongiorno and Arri-

vederci, hello and goodbye in Italian. • Nyaga had drilled out seed pods to make wog-

gles. • Hand carved wooden trolls repre-

sented Iceland. • Veronique gave a badge in the shape

of a Maple Leaf, the emblem of her homeland.

• The Bramley Guides got to know Harpa on the Mountain Railway.

• Nyaga was not from Canada.

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Name:.............................................. Date of Birth:.................................... Address:............................................ .......................................................... .......................................................... .......................................................... ______________________________________


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a) Take out your note pad and pen and give her your address and make a note of hers then forget all about it.

b) Write it on the back of your hand but then it gets smudged be-fore you can copy it down properly

c) Scrabble for the back of a receipt and ANYTHING to write with but she's got to go so you don't get her address.

d) Swap addresses and emails and write her a note as soon as you get in, that way you'll keep in touch this time.

9) Someone stops you on the way home from school to ask di-

rections. It's somewhere near here, and you've been past the place a few times on the way to somewhere else. Do you

a) Give her the directions you can remember, at least she'll be a bit closer.

b) Apologise - you can't remember how to get where she wants to go, and never know any road names anyway.

c) Draw her a quick sketch map putting in a couple of landmarks like the pub in case she gets lost.

d) Direct her in to town, she can find a map at the book shop. 10)You're helping at a charity fair and someone comes to your

stall. His speech isn't very clear and he doesn't seem to be able to read the signs but he is interested in what you have to sell. Do you

a) Go round to his side of the table as it's quite noisy and you want to be able to hear him properly, make sure you make eye con-tact and face him when talking and take time to understand what he really wants.

b) Smile pleasantly, make eye contact and wait for him to tell you what he wants.

c) Speak very loudly and slowly while showing him the things you think he was looking at.

d) Avoid eye contact and get very busy with another customer so you don't have to deal with him.

For scores, see page 65

The amount of sleep required by the average man is just five min-utes more—Unknown

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4) You're on a hike and have to walk to the opposite corner of a field with cows in. Do you

a) Scream at the sight of the cows and refuse to go any further. b) Walk around the edge of the field, watching out for cow pats

and walk quietly and calmly so as not to spook the cattle. c) Head straight across the other corner, chattering loudly to your

friends (cows don't scare *you*.) 5) A friend invites you to visit her in a town that you have

never been in before. You are meeting her in a cafe and are planning to walk around town a bit and hang out with her friends. You are anxious to look good and have a new pair of kitten heels that you are dying to wear. Do you

a) Wear the heels- you'll look great! b) Wear the heels but take some flat shoes in your bag in case you

end up doing a lot of walking. c) Wear flat shoes. 6) You are walking alongside a pretty busy, major road on

your own. Which direction should the traffic be coming on the side of the road that you are on?

a) It should be coming up behind you and travelling in the same direction.

b) It should be travelling the opposite direction that you are walk-ing.

7) You're out late at a party and it's dark. Your lift has disap-

peared, despite promising to get you home before your fam-ily starts to worry, and you missed the last bus. You've lost your purse and your mobile is out of credit to cap it all. Do you

a) Start walking, it will only get darker. b) Get out your spare "20p" for emergencies and phone home. c) Make a reverse charge call home. 8) You meet an old friend in town, who moved schools and you

thought you had lost touch, but she's back for just the after-noon. She offers to give you her new address. Do you

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Logic Problem—Challenge Guides from 14th Bramley Guides were reviewing their year for their challenge badges. They talked about what activities they liked doing during the year and what badges they got. • Sarah, from an animals patrol, preferred to be outdoors.

• The Guide from the Taj Mahal patrol did a mu-sical badge.

• Neither Harriet nor Katie liked Skiing, but both prepared food for their interest badge. • Jessica went camping with the Pandas. • The girl who did her communicator badge loved backwoods cooking. • Emily, from a patrol named after a building, tried skiing for the first time, and had a great time.

• The Roses patrol did GFI Parties and worked towards their Party Planner badge.

• The Guide who got her chocolate badge did not prefer crafts.

• Katie had never heard of mini-pioneering before she tried it, but thought it was great they could do a form of pioneering indoors when it was chucking it down outside.

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1) You're camping and it starts to rain. Do you a) Panic and rush into the tent as quick as possible cos you've

forgotten your waterproof. b) Put your waterproof on, check the woodpile is covered and

nothing serious is going to get wet (as you sorted the tent out when the clouds came over) then carry on with what you were doing.

c) Get in the tent being careful not to touch the walls. d) Put your waterproof on and check the tent. 2) Your friend falls off a tree and cuts her arm. Do you a) Call for an adult but meanwhile make your friend comfortable,

applying pressure and putting her arm into an elevation sling, getting the adult to drive her to casualty (or call an ambulance if it's really bad.)

b) Scream and faint at the sight of blood. c) Call for an adult and let them deal with it (whether they like

blood or not). 3) A horse has got loose and is calmly eating the grass by the

verge of the road, but it could clearly cause a hazard if it wandered off. You've managed to get hold of the halter rope. Before going to find the owner, do you

a) Tie it to the fence with a reef knot (it's the only knot you know.)

b) Tie it to the fence with a figure eight halter hitch. c) What's a reef knot?

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