Hi guys
It is the first time I write on the blog so please don't be too mean ;)

I want to share something I do and love since a long time: the scouts.
One weekend per month, scouts meet and play games, laugh, learn about life, sometimes about God but most of all, love and respect each other.

When I was six, my mum introduced scouting to my older brother and he really liked it. I wanted to go, but I was too young. I had to wait one more year.
Indeed, you can only start scouting at age eight (ok ok I cheated, I went there a year before...).
From eight to twelve years old you are a "louveteau"and you are wearing a light blue shirt, from twelve to sixteen-seventeen years old you are an "éclaireurs" and you are wearing a green shirt after that you have two choices: you can be an "aîné"(grey shirts)  or a "responsable"(the color of their shirts depends on the section they are responsible of).
When you choose to be an "aîné", you spend your two last years of high school on a project to help others, the environment etc...
I know some "aînés" who went to Madagascar and Nepal to help children over there!
When you choose to be a "responsable", you have to take care of the "louveteaux" and the "éclaireurs". You are basically responsible of the youngest, a scouts leader.
*What I've just told you might not be right for every scouts because there are many kind of scouts: the Catholics, the Muslims, the Jewish... I am personally part of the Protestant scouts (EEUDF).*

Anyways, this year had passed and so my mother inscribed me to the same group of young boys and girls my brother was in.
My first weekends were a little tough because I was very young and it is not easy to leave your parents, even for a weekend, when you're seven. 
My first Summer camp arrived super quickly and it happened that I didn't have many real friends so it obviously wasn't my best camp.
Though I didn't quit (and I love myself for that now ;p), because I knew that one of my friend was coming the year after.
I spent four years with her in that group, we made other friends,  went to many camps and most of all, ate a lot of pasta!

But when my last year of "louveteaux" arrived, there were no more scouts leaders and they told us that parents were going to take care of us... Parents? Seriously? So my friend and I decided that we should go into the other group of scouts we knew in Marseille (we had already camped with them twice).
Both of us do not regret it at all! It is much better now, even though it was great before.

I am now in my last year of "éclaireurs" and I really don't want this year to end. Because, I will see the others much less often than the previous years.
It is always hard to see people leaving the group. And I know I will soon be one of these person.

















                     

The picture you see up here, is just a part of us (the oldest)
We had just done a day of hiking that's why we are all
wearing flip-flops. As you can see we are all wearing
our green shirt.

On the path of some scouts

Hey everybody!

Well, it is the end of the summer so now I can finally write a bit about what I did during July. As you know, I am part the "Eclaireurs et éclaireuses de France" (EEDF). It is a branch of the french scoutism but it has the particularity to be a secular group. Being a scout counts enormously for me because people are always great and we learn values that nowhere else we can learn. It is such a good school for people who wants to learn more about others and even themselves.

This year, we did a camp right on the Mont Ventoux. It was awesome because we were on the hill and we had a wonderful view from up there. The camp is organized so that we, the older (the "Ainés") , are a bit apart from the kids so that we can have different projects and have our own camp. Going on a scout camp basically consists of dealing with what we have, sleeping either in tents or outside, learning to use nature to build things are when we only have this and mainly being with others. Most people who aren't interesting in scoutism think we are just a group of weird kids who eat flowers, poop in the trees and don't take showers but as you know stereotypes are often wrong! (ok... it happens that we forget to take showers for somedays but...).

What I like the most during the camp is the "explo" we got to do. It consists of leaving the camp for 4 days with our small group (we were 8) and without our chief. During these days, we have a map, an itenerary, a tent and the necessary to live and we hike. This year, we went on the crests of a mountain and we slept in different villages. It was quite difficult because we didn't take enough water at the beginning and it was very hot but we managed to finish it! I loved it!

Anyway, after 20 days living like this, it was kind of hard to come back to reality but it's true that sleeping in a bed is not that bad haha.

Here is a picture of our "explo", it was great :