Mike, Don't forget the part where you fall asleep on the bus ride home and your Ranger "brothers" draw a mustache on you. That's what happened on my son's first trip tp Pow Wow :-) David Weiser OP 354 Vancouver, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I am going to having a simulated Pow-wow at my church in two weeks. I have > invited a couple of Commanders from other Outposts, to come and assist and > their outpost is welcome too, but I don't think that they can come. The > simulated Pow-wow is going to start at 0700 am. the boys will arrive in their > street clothes. We will set up the campsite and place tents properly and set > up the kitchen area. What we will do next is prepare for uniform inspections, > the boys will go and change into their uniforms inside their tents as they > would at Pow-wow and we inspect uniforms and then hold opening ceremonies. > Then the boys would be free to return to wearing their street clothes, so > that we may begin working on our skills and getting ready for the > competitions. We will practice our skills all morning. We will pause for a > cook out in the kitchen of our campsite (not that I'll be having anything) > and then in the afternoon we will work on projects such as signage for the > campsite, and lashing projects and such and upon about 1900, we will break > camp while we still have a little daylight left to see what we are doing. > We are conducting this drill so that we will know what to expect (plus a > few surprises) at the pow-wow. This is being done to reinforce the patrol > system and build the Outpost. Our excitement for Pow-wow is building a lot > as we have a bunch of new boys who want to do the program without all of the > Tom Foolery that has gone on previously. I love it when a plan comes > together. There is going to be activity all day and in a way that we don't > get to have on a Wednesday night. We will have daylight and time to get some > work done by the boys for the boys. We can win some competitions if we put a > little effort into the event. We will learn patrol spirit and teamwork on > this day. We are really excited about it. We won't be able to camp over night > but we will gain a lot of knowledge on that day. All the boys will be earning > their Cut & Chop cards and hopefully a little responsibility. We call this > activity a Pow-Sim, because it sounds like a military term and it makes the > kids feel good about it. We live in a military community. > Should be fun and I thought that I would share about it. > > Iron Mike > _______ > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! > http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
