A Good Old Owl Too
For a bit of a background on what exactly I am talking about, check out this Wikipedia article on Wood Badge.
Well, I am a week away from my second weekend of my Wood Badge training. The first weekend was pretty cool, although a few sessions were repeats of other training’s I have been through in the past, a number of the classes were totally new takes on things and really taught me some pretty interesting stuff.
When you take Wood Badge, you are put into a patrol with some of your fellow participants; I am in the Owl Patrol (which is awesome, that was definitely the patrol I was hoping for!). That patrol is responsible to put together a project between weeks based on an aspect of Scouting.
Our patrol originally chose to focus on the Scouting uniform, but another patrol jumped on that before we could, so we decided to switch over to disabilities in Scouting. Essentially, all five of our patrol members will choose a different type of disability and follow a Scout with that disability through Scouting; all the way from Cub to Boy to Venturer. We will show how a leader can better work with a Scout with these disabilities, how to better adapt their program to the unique needs of these Scouts.
I am working on Scouts with Emotional Disabilities. Well, I am supposed to be, at least. I am currently blogging and watching the Bears game. HOLY CRAP BLOCKED PUNT TOUCHDOWN BEARS! Live blogging people, who knows what’s going to happen?! Anyway, back to the matter at hand. After the Bears game, at 4PM, I have a meeting with my patrol to finish up our project and I currently have NOTHING.
Really, I suppose all I have to do is google around and dig up some info on emotional disabilities. No big deal, really, and there is probably even a bit of info out there as to how to work with Scouts with emotional disabilities, all I have to do is compile it and map it to fit the presentation. I suppose I am just having a procrastination problem.
Eh, well, it happens. This blog certainly isn’t helping. But off I go, to cook an oven pizza and then retreat to my laptop and hopefully do some work.
