so i'm working with my Pap this summer until i find a more permanent job. i'm already learning a lot of interesting things and its only been a week :) the problem is, i feel like a lot of these things i would have already known if i had had a slightly different upbringing. while being a girlscout up through fifth grade did in fact prepare me very well in the methods of hot chocolate making (i've made blends from several different countries) and muffin baking (i have a distinct memory of both apple and blueberry) i feel like there were some key features of scouting lacking from my camping-in-a-platform-tent and starting-fires-with-varnished-wood-or-gasoline-soaked-egg-cartons experience.
1. i learned the other day that birch trees smell like spearmint when you peel the bark off of them.
2. that same day i also learned that i am not much of a lumberjack. when it comes to chopping down trees, as pap puts it i am like lightning. i never strike the same place twice.
3. i have no idea how to use a compass and a map in conjunction with one another. this could have serious consequences since today we began cutting a line through a heavily wooded area on a line that is supposedly 10 degrees east of north. i was in charge of telling pap which way we should be going. we stopped partway through today, and tomorrow we will find out how good i did. i am afraid that we will end up being off by a country mile and a half and i will be disowned for my lack of compass skills.
i dated a boyscout once. little good that did me.
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Is a country mile more than the standard mile? or less? or just the same? Keep posting, I am learning things as well. And there is nothing wrong with egg cartons with dryer lint stuffed in them doused in candle wax and gasoline... the fires all look the same. :)
And did you date a boyscout ONCE? Cause I remember that a little differently...
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