On the Quest for leadership

Oh Girl Scouts! You've been in my life for at least 7 years. In those years I have earned my Bronze and Silver Award. And now it's time for the big thing, the real thing, the test to see if I can call myself a Girl Scout. Okay well maybe it's not a test to see if I'm a Girl Scout, but for me the Gold Award is very important. I really want to get it. I don't care about anything else. Just to get the award would be awesome. AWESOME and I don't use that word lightly. But recently I have come to a block in the road. It has nothing to do with the project itself. I'm actually not even on the project. Right now I am still working on the prerequisites. The Leadership hours and the Career hours are the things that are giving me the hardest time. I think the Career hours will be okay, but until recently the Leadership hours have been giving me problems. So far I have about 16 hours of leadership. It may sound like a lot of hours, but in order to meet the requirements I need 30 hours. Those 16 hours came from helping a younger Girl Scout troop. I helped them with their Spring Encampment. Now I was a bit hesitant because I thought the girls were a brats and all that stuff. The reason for my thinking is because when I helped that troop out before that's the way they were. But surprisingly they were pleasant and really funny. (The girls who were a handful quit the troop...thank god). And the encampment went really smoothly. The other hours came from being the cookie chair for my own troop. That was a lot of work. But hey leadership hours are leadership hours. Okay so back to the solution for getting leadership hours. I asked that troop's leader if she had anything for me to do. And she responded very fast. Apparently she has two things for me to do. The first thing is to get a Brownie to bridge to Junior. The second thing this to get a Junior to earn the Bronze Award... in one year. This is a great solution and plus the two girls are well-behaved and willing to work. I remember this from the encampment. This is going to be really awesome!!