Scouting is something else

When I started to be a girl scout I was only 8 and not very much excited about it indeed: in fact,  my mother pushed me to go, so, then, I just tried. Since that day I have been a scout until now and I went through many special and memorable experience, that made me grow up until I become the person I am. Now, I keep enjoy it as a Scoutmaster.

The values I learned gave a constant orientation to my life and now I find myself practicing them at every time, I'm not aware of it most of the time.

Active in the scout movement I had intense moments of spirituality and I have met significant people, who keep on being very important in my life. I also had experience that probably I couldn't have had anywhere else: sharing a tent, sleeping in a cave, climbing, trekking for hours in all kind of weather conditions, building a table with my hands or a kitchen - that we actually used for two weeks, maybe a bit wonky but still functional– and even more important, feeling the weight of the unnecessary things on my shoulders.
 
I learned to accept the responsibility of my choices.
I experienced that it didn't take too much to have fun and enjoy your time with other people, I felt helpful when I though I had nothing to offer and somebody helped me when I needed to.
I felt free at the last.

I'm still enjoying to be a scout, although it demands your time and energies, but I do it because I modestly hope I can be significant for the new generation of scouts as my masters were for me. I'm grateful to those adults who are in their forties who have a job and a family and still they find time for us, because they have plenty of responsibilities but still they find a way to help me to live special experience.

There's a lot of people whose don't understand why at the end of my 20's I prefer to spend my holidays at a scout camp, instead of doing some other vacation...some classmates made laugh of me when they saw me in my uniform or when I talked about scout camps with my friends, and they treated me as we were idiots....but, you know, I'm proud to be this type of idiot ;)