Austin Miller
Scouting
How scouting is important to me? It's important to me because it will teach me how to improve my life. It will help me choose the right path in life and Til get better life and survival skills. Scouting is a life changing experience. I should always follow the scout law and oath. The law is, "a scout will be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent/' These words are some of the most important words ever in scouting. Every scout should try their hardest to obey these words. The oath is, "on my honor I will do my best to do my duties for god and my country, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight/' These words also should be obeyed. What the law means to me. Trustworthy = you should always tell the truth, loyal = responsibility, helpful = help people, friendly = be friendly, courteous = having manners, kind = niceness, obedient = behavior, cheerful = happiness, thrifty = smart financing, brave = your not afraid to do something (different from courage), clean = hygiene, and reverent = religion.
Why I like scouting. In scouts you meet new people and have lots of fun. You get to go on camping trips and other fun things. Some of my favorite outings have been the lock-in, Lyle, and anything that gets me away from home. If s nice to go to places that you have never gone to and better, with all your friends. The experience is worth it. Things to do at Lyle include: swimming at the waterfront; cycling around the camp; shooting bow and arrows, rifle, and shotgun shooting at the rifle and archery ranges; kayaking, canoeing, row boating, motor boating (16 years old), and fishing at any of the lakes there; crafting at scout craft; learning about nature at eco-con; buying stuff at the trading post; getting merit badges; rand advancement; cooking; teamwork; earning your toten-chip; building stuff; whittling (which i dislike when kids that do that all day long); and hiking.
Why I want to go to Philmont. The reasons I want to go to Philmont is because I want to have the experience and be able to talk about Philmont stuff and know what other people are talking about. I want to see the environment down in New Mexico and hike for miles and miles. Be able to share my experience with friends and family. My cousin went to Philmont and had a blast there, so I want to have that much fun. I like nature (once in a while) and being able to learn about it.
How I help new scouts. I like helping new scouts because once and a while I see myself when I first started being a boy scout here (and some times that's not the best). I like trying to get them motivated at Lyle instead of having them sit around and whittling all day (it's annoying and you can do that at home). When I help them 1 feel like I know what I'm doing.
Some of the skills I've learned so far are how to communicate with people I don't know from selling wreaths in wreath sales. Selling wreaths has also taught me how to do good business with others. I've learned how to be active with the community with scouting for food. Fire making and survival skills were learned at Lyle.
The scout meetings are fun every Monday night. We meet up in patrols and have flag ceremony. Then we do something together or learn something new. Being historian was interesting too and I learned how to make a power point.
That is why I like scouting and my goal is to get Eagle and I'm 1 class right now and almost Star and assistant patrol leader.
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