Pictures, Alas!

Here are a few pictures as promised :)! My computer is finally almost fixed. Most of the important things work now :) Just click on the pictures for a larger version.

This is an almost complete group shot (missing some senior staff) before thinking day. From left to right: An ex-volunteer visiting from Germany, Kristina - Zoe (Long Term Resident, UK) -Christa (Resident Volunteer, New Zealand) - Jocelyn (Resident Volunteer, Australia), Me! (Resident Volunteer, USA) - Sally (Office Manager, South Africa) - Anna (Resident Volunteer, USA) - Kailey (Resident Volunteer, Canada), Seunghee (Resident Volunteer, South Korea) - Andie (Office Assistant, Australia) - Kristen (Resicent Volunteer, USA) - Maki (Resident Assistant, Japan)



This one was taken at the Pax Lodge Thinking Day ceremony. We had a big group from Norway at the house.


Also from the Pax Lodge Thinking Day evening program.



My room!





This picture is from the National Founders/Thinking Day celebration at Westminster Abbey. Did I mention we had VIP seats ;)? That's Jocelyn, Kristina, & Christa



A blurry picture of the colour guard since we couldn't use flash.



And my favourite... 3rd Baron, Lord Baden Powell of Gilwell! Lord Baden Powell's grandson. I got to hear him speak!

Thinking Day & Training

I'm on day... 5? 4? I don't even know anymore.

Thinking Day was amazing! We got VIP seats to the Thinking Day ceremony at Westminster Abbey which was really awesome. I got to hear Robert Baden Powell's grandson speak! Also, I'm going to have my picture in a UK guiding magazine apparently. We came back to the house and had our Thinking Day celebration. In years past they've had as many as 600 people come through the house, but we had far less than that. The Northern Line on the tube was closed (the closest way to get here by tube) and the bus that comes by the house has to go through Trafalgar's Square where there were tons of people protesting the Iraq war there. We think that's why we didn't have too girls many turn up. Although, we have had several groups from Norway since I've been here.

I've been in training which is REALLY overwhelming, but the jobs aren't that hard once you're actually doing them. I'm sure once I get into the swing of things it'll be good.

Tonight we had a group of 27 Brownie's come through for dinner and activities. It was really great! It made me realize how much I miss the kids back home. Brownie's are brownie's no matter where they're from ;)!

I'm still not sleeping well :(! Hopefully I'll get to bed early-ish tonight because I'm on "house" tomorrow which means being awake and working by 7:00 AM!

I promise pictures soon.

The Eagle Has Landed! Part II

My flight was quite an adventure as I sat next to a woman who didn't speak English very well. She obviously didn't know the rules of flying next to someone you've never met before. Not only did we have a constant power struggle over the arm rest (my book says it should remain down when you don't know the person you're sitting next to), but she also used MY tray table! Did she not know she had one? I don't know... I tried my best to ignore her and sleep.

After lugging my luggage on and off of the tube on an empty stomach & little to no sleep it was great to arrive and get setteled in my room (which I'll post pictures of later). Everything is super busy here because it's thinking day (google it!) weekend. Tomorrow we'll go to Westminster Abbey for the formal ceremony with thousands of people. Quite exciting for a scoutie nerd :)!

That's about it. I have wifi on my laptop now, but certain things won't load such as my email, AIM, and *GASP* BLOGGER! Oh well. Hopefully I'll get it to work soon enough.

More another time, it's movie night at the house!

The Eagle Has Landed!

It's official! I'm here safe and sound. I'll blog more later when I figure out the wifi password :)