Cadette-O-Rama - 11/2/2018 - 114/2018

Last week on Thursday night, I finished packing for Cadette-O-Rama. It's basically this camping thingy for cadettes, which is a level for girl scouts. The theme this year was mythical, magical creatures. This year was my first time doing Cadette-O-Rama and everyone in my troop was excited including me. So after school ended, I went to the back gate and gave my sister my backpack to bring home. I went to our troop leader's home, which was a short walk because she lives near our school. Then we drove to the place, and got set up. We put up all the tents, the ez-ups, the washing station, the eating tables, and the decorations. For dinner on Friday night, we just ate pizza. We went to sleep at around 11 P.M. because of other girls from other troops talking. I didn't get much sleep, I woke up at 5 in the morning and didn't go back to sleep. The next day (Saturday) was the real competitions and other things. For breakfast, we ate oatmeal or cereal. We also got unicorn headbands to match the mythical, magical creatures theme. So in the morning we did the skills competition, I did the map reading with another girl from my troop who was feeling sick that day so we had a little bit of a disadvantage. The person who was supposed to do rope-toss left the troop, so the troop leaders said I should do it, and I practiced, and I needed to know how to tie a bowline. I learned how to on a shorter and slimmer rope, and it was much easier, and then when I tried on the super long and super thick black rope, I couldn't do it. The time limit was 3 minutes, and I just stood there for 3 minutes trying to figure out how to tie a bowline with a string that I wasn't used to using. Then the entire troop (all the girls at least) did the knot tying thing, and I only got 1/9 which was the bowline (Yay!). Then, we went and ate lunch, which was ramen, it was pretty good. After that, we had fun competitions. The first competition I did was disk throwing, which my partner and I got 0 points, even though together we had 4 tries. After that, I went with another one of the girls in my troop to play red light, green light, and I've never played with yellow light and when they said it I thought it was a trick so I didn't move, we lost. Then I went and did "pin the eye on the cyclops" I only got 5 points for getting it on its face. Then, two other girls in my troop and I did a game called "Hera's Hunt", where you put on a costume, which was a wreath, a toga, a belt, and you would hold a sword, and then the first person completes and obstacle and goes back and the next person does the same thing. My teammates and I got first place, but we tied, and the other team that tied with us actually cheated, so we re-did it and got first place which earned us 10 points! Then we went back and did some swaps. Then at night time, for dinner, we at pasta. I managed to fall asleep at around 9 P.M., and I woke up at 2:50 A.M. to use the restroom, but then I went back to sleep and was woken up by another person at 5:00 A.M., and then I woke up at 6:00 A.M. again and didn't go back to sleep. It was actually daylight savings, so when I thought it was 7, it was only 6. For breakfast we ate pastries, like croissants or muffins, also scrambled eggs. Then, we went to the award ceremony, and our troop won 6th place out of 12 places (there were way more than 12 troops) in the fun competition. We didn't even place in the skills competition though. Then we went back to our site and took everything down and headed home. It was a fun experience. Next year, we hope to get even better at the skills, and do better at the fun events!