Entire Issue - Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
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By Katie G.<br />
The Expo: a Real <strong>Girl</strong>’s Experience<br />
If you didn’t get a chance to go to GSEP’s Century <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>Girl</strong> Expo this past April, then you missed out on<br />
an awesome experience!<br />
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2012: year <strong>of</strong> the girl | discover<br />
I went with my friend that I met a few<br />
summers ago at Camp Wood Haven.<br />
We are both in high school and are<br />
not in troops, but go to <strong>Girl</strong> Scout<br />
events together. The event was held<br />
on the weekend <strong>of</strong> April 21–22 but<br />
we only went on Saturday and from<br />
the flag ceremony that included<br />
every flag in the world where there<br />
are <strong>Girl</strong> <strong>Scouts</strong> to the Diggy Simmons<br />
concert that night we had a great<br />
time!!!! In between the flags and<br />
the concert we attended the Real<br />
<strong>Girl</strong>s Conference where we got to<br />
work with other girls to create public<br />
service announcements that raise<br />
awareness about issues we all care<br />
about. I chose ‘hunger.’ The girls I<br />
worked with all had cool ideas about<br />
what our PSA should include as well<br />
as how we can work to end hunger.<br />
After the Real <strong>Girl</strong>s Conference, we<br />
saw Scott Harrison talk about how he<br />
founded ‘charity: water.’ He showed<br />
us pictures <strong>of</strong> kids and people in<br />
Africa who were sick because <strong>of</strong> the<br />
contaminated water they use. He<br />
described how the women have to<br />
walk for miles to get clean water and<br />
then carry huge, heavy containers<br />
back to their villages. Because <strong>of</strong> this,<br />
many girls and women never attend<br />
school because they are needed to<br />
make the long journey to bring water<br />
into their village. Scott Harrison saw<br />
this, and founded his charity, focused<br />
on raising money to create access to<br />
clean water in places all around the<br />
world, which results in people being<br />
healthier and having time to go to<br />
school. Between this and the Real <strong>Girl</strong>s<br />
Conference, I learned soooooo much!<br />
After dinner, we went to the girl party<br />
where Veronica Ballestrini performed,<br />
DJ Diamond Kuts mixed it up for us<br />
to dance and finally, Diggy Simmons<br />
came out and performed! It was a<br />
great ending to an even better day!<br />
GIRL PARTY HEADLINER<br />
DIGGY SIMMONS<br />
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN... AT THE GIRL PARTY!<br />
If you didn’t get a chance to go…you missed<br />
out on an awesome experience!<br />
gsep.org • spark • fall/winter 2012 17
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