A decision that made a difference

Joan Wilson Andrews

I was eleven and I was a Girl Scout. I liked being both. Eleven was old enough for me to make certain decisions for myself, and I was learning and doing some really fun things in my Scout troop.

One thing was bothering me just a little, though—something that had happened that summer at camp. The girls in my troop had gone to Scout camp for two weeks at a mountain lake. It was my first time camping, and to say I was excited would be putting it mildly!

My friends and I loved the counselors. But not everything went the way I'd thought or hoped it would. One of the leaders decided that my best friend Sandi and I should be separated and put in different activities, even though we'd chosen the same ones. I couldn't understand any reason for this. Then one day I got sick. This wasn't the way camp was supposed to be at all!

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