27th to 30th August
After a fabulous evaluation with the board, we had a few days to ourselves to explore the island and complete the training plans for next weekend based on the feedback.
On Tuesday and the early mornings, we worked through training plans, which you can hear about in our next blog.
Wednesday, we visited the Butterly Farm - 35 different species (plus one moth). It was very relaxing and various Butterflies landed on us. Find out in next weeks blog post if we make it to the 7:30am meditation session at the other end of the Island!
Later, we had movie night - those that had seen it before didn’t realise how corny ‘Walking on Sunshine’ was! Stargazing followed, with Aruba’s newly formed Science and Nature Foundation. All of us ‘earning’ one of the old Brownie programme stargazer badges.
Thursday, Hannah and Sophie met the Prime Minister of Aruba to share Guiding experiences of the GOLD team and the APG.
“It was an eye opening opportunity to meet a leader in another country, particularly as she is the first female prime minister of Aruba. She was very receptive to understanding Girlguiding and the values of the organisation” - Hannah
The obligatory Aruba sign photo opportunity was visited
Encouraged by the APG, beaches have recently become a theme through “Sunset beyond the bush” as there was a bush in the way of a previous sunset. We’ve also been swimming at Baby Beach!
Throughout we’ve had a feast - Arepa, made by Heather; a trip to the Dutch Pancake House (Sophie’s favourite location) and a few stops at the different Ice Cream places!
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