Re: Roll Call (ended up quite long for a young 'un!)

I am Charlie (female - short for Charlotte), aged 20 and I'm not and have never been a Scout....

I was a Brownie from age 8 at 5th Surbiton and at 4th Godalming, then a Guide with 2nd Godalming (in Surrey West). No Rangers but was a Rainbow Young Leader (1st Busbridge), then when my Guide Guider went to New Zealand get married (just the wedding/honeymoon, she came back!) my friend and I ran the unit whilst she was away... and from then on I was Young Leader!!! I got my Leadership Qualification when I turned 18, but don't use it currently.
I went to the World Jamboree in Thailand 02/03 - one of 9 LASER (London and South East) Guides with about 100 Hampshire Scouts!! I was in the Gibbons Contingent, and had a whale of the time.

Now I'm at uni at Durham, I helped out with 1st Meadowfield Guides a bit in my first year but it didn't really work out. I went to EuroJam as IST last year and was in charge of the "school sports day" activity on North Sea Euroville, which was great! At EuroJam I met a load of people from SSAGO and am now a (nominal) member of DUSAGG (Durham Uni Scout and Guide Group). I'm not actually active in Guiding and Scouting at the moment, but keep in touch with my home Guide unit and enjoy SSAGO events. Plans for the future - get more involved with DUSAGG for my final year next year, and go to WSJ 2007 as IST. I will start Guiding again properly when I live all in one place at a time (instead of Surrey half the year and Durham the other half), and would like to do DofE and Queen's Guide. Would never rule out joining Scouting either!

I'm a strong believer in Guiding and Scouting working together, as I got so much out of my World Scout Jamboree experience and am really enjoying SSAGO. I also post on www.gojamboree.org.uk which is a 2007 forum (came out of an old EuroJam one).

When I'm not on the newsgroup (I was revising yesterday for this morning's exam, and have spent the whole afternoon catching up!!) I study maths, play rugby, listen to and occasionally play music, socialise, and get involved in my JCR (the student body in my College).
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