Kestrels Company Termly Report
Term 2 of 2023 was very eventful for the Kestrels Company. Many business ventures were pursued , including James’ First Class hike, Juliet’s Discoverer community service, a patrol meeting, a massive profit margin resultant of a badge frenzy, a very wet patrol camp, and an overall 2nd Place in Moscip finish.
Overall I am incredibly proud of my patrol and how far they have come so far this year, and this term especially. We persevered through some hard times, and came out the tunnel stronger than ever. Our boss has big plans for us, aiming to keep employee health and profit margins high in the coming months.
This coming term should hold an interesting array of experiences, including a visit to a fire station, a few weeks without a boss (James will be on Jamboree), some more community service run by employee Juliet, a hike, even more community service (we are adopting a penguin), run by assistant and COO Laura and a redone Cooks meal, as the we suffered from a massive drop in stock value during the last attempt at it. I am excited to see where this patrol goes in the coming term – Moscip better get ready to be opposite the flagpole once again. Aim for the moon, and you will land among the stars.
CEO and big boss James
James’ First Class Hike
James ran his overnight First Class hike in the Hottentots Holland Mountain Range. Unfortunately for James, Axel almost wasn’t let into the nature reserve because of his age, but after some dubious obedience to scout law number one all five of us started hiking.
It was only forty five minutes into the hike until the next disaster happened: James realised he had lost the key to the hut. None of us had been to the hut before, so we had no idea if we’d have to sleep outside or not. The fact that it was raining the entire time made everything worse, because it’s hard to be optimistic when your socks are wet. If we were Eagles, maybe we would have been deterred by the terrible weather, lack of a warm place to sleep, the number of times we dropped Laughing Cow cheese in the dirt, or the fact that every six minutes Simon would remind us of a new thing he had forgotten (rain jacket, medication, etc). But we were the Kestrels, and we pushed through.
In a surprising turn of events, there was an area in the hut that you didn’t need a key to get into that had a table and some wooden benches around a fire pit. We were all set to have a great time, despite everything that went wrong. Except things kept going wrong. While trying to make pasta, James spilled an entire pot of boiling water on the sleeping bag he was in not once but twice. In an attempt to start a fire even though all the wood was wet, we burnt the planning document and then got lost the next day. Speaking of the next day, we took at least ten minutes to try and get Juliet’s shoe out from between two rocks, and everybody except James started hallucinating.
Even though a lot of things went pretty horribly wrong, the hike was a lot of fun. James didn’t let any of the obstacles stop him from running an awesome First Class hike that nobody will forget any time soon.
Laura O.
