BPGHS Girl Guides

In collaboration with Jurong Secondary Guides, we had an outdoor cooking session for the Juying Primary Brownies!

The main objectives of this session was to teach the brownies turfing, fire-starting and cooking!

Of course, even though it wasn't stated in the proposal, we also had to let the brownies know the reasons why we do turfing instead of digging, why it's easier to start fire in the specified method and also basic hygiene practices while they are preparing the food for cooking. (: It's always good to explain the rationale behind everything that we are teaching so that they really understand the purpose behind our practices.

Our guides had a prior training session with me last Friday to brush up on their fire-starting skills. This shows that they are really sincere in teaching the brownies eh. :D

8 of them who were present: Jie Ying, Eileen, Eunice, Ai Xin, Brina, Yi Lei, Jasmine and Swee Ling!

After a briefing, we waited for the brownies to arrive while preparing the neccessary equipment.

The brownies arrived at 1330H. The 30 of them were to be split into 6 groups of 5 and a minimum of 3 Guides were assigned to each group.










We couldn't take out the soil in large pieces because the weather has been too hot recently and the soil was too dry. All the groups ended up having a mountain of soil instead.



The brownies were taught to prepare small pizzas and chocolate bananas and they wrapped them in aluminium foil.











After burning the firewood to embers, they place the food into the pit and covered them with the embers.

















Our food preparation 'committee'!

































All the BP Guides really worked hard to teach the brownies and to help out the Jurong Guides at the same time. Thank you all so much for your effort! (:

Overall, it was a really great collaboration with the Jurong Secondary Guides! We got along really well with them. Some of us even exchanged numbers with them with hopes of such more experiences in the future. (:

Despite us all feeling exhausted from inhaling fumes, maintaining the fire etc, we all left with a great sense of accomplishment from teaching the brownies. :D





Spotted! The 4 Sec2s (Gigi, Entong, Jane and Angela) after their malt candy sales. :D




Happy Holidays to everyone! (not for me though because I'll be having attachment! Booooo)
Sec 4s, please do work very hard for your revision of O Levels! (:





Regards,
MingXian :D



P.S: I wanted to put 'XOXO' instead of regards.. LOL.