Laura Owens’ Community Service
Laura’s comserve was really enjoyable and a great experience. We started early in the morning to make the long drive out to Franschhoek and luckily arrived slightly early so we got coffee and a deviously delicious loaf of bread for the day, we were doing the com serve at the local community centre, we got to experience the local environment and culture of the community. We spent the day making kids gift bags for Christmas for the school kids, it was really fun and we all enjoyed it and the people working with us were really kind and grateful, for lunch we had a local made beboete which really scrummy, we ended around 3 and made the long drive back home getting back to laura’s house by 5 where her fantastilicoius cats were waiting.
Oliver Van Zyl Smit
Laura Owens’ Cooks Meal
Laura’s Cooks badge meal started at 1:45, with a couple late arrivals, and MK being unable to come last minute. We were first briefed on what we were going to do and jumped straight into cooking we had to prepare a 4 course meal in 4 hours, serving at 6, Simon set the table, laura, jos and I began cooking. We made bread for starters, vegetarian curry with naan for mains with homemade ice tea, for dessert we had apple crumble and 2nd dessert was delicious sugar cookies. Caleb and Chris were judging and we all loads of fun and an incredible meal to stuff ourselves. The day was super well run and everything went smoothly without even a small bump.
Oliver Van Zyl Smit
Laura Owens’ First Class Expedition
We started by going to Laura’s house where we waited till everyone arrived and set out on our expedition. The people on the expedition were Laura, Daniel, Alex, Axel and me. We had to stop a bit in because I had forgotten my medicine and we had to pick it up. After about half an hour we stopped at an ice cream place and got massive ice creams. Me, Alex and Axel spend a lot of the trip there talking about time travel. About an hour later we stopped for lunch at some rocks where we ate our lunch and then went to the rock pools nearby and looked at the fish. And then we continued to the hermanus scout base but the first aid course was still happening so we went to the old harbor and looked around. We saw some whales in the ocean and discussed how Emily would have known more about them. Then we went back to the hermanus scout base where we dropped off our bags and did an activity with the people who are on the first aid course where we went to the old harbor and tried to figure out a geocach which only after we had mostly figured it out Laura told us it wasn’t there. Then we went to checkers when Laura got a large green bear for the PL’s den and after that we returned to the Hermanus scout base where we ate food and then played priest of the parish before Laura said it was bedtime and we went to bed. The next day we woke up and ate breakfast while the people on the first age course ran after breakfast we set off back to Cape town stopping along the way at a dam so Laura could talk about bullying. After that we went to Laura’s house again where we ate the brownies she had prepared for us to eat on the day we left which she had forgotten about before being picked up.
Simon Halse
