Personal Narrative: My Boy Scout Meetings

When I was younger I felt that the best part of my life was going to my boy scout meetings. Since I was 12 years old I was a part of troop 17 and I enjoyed every minute of it. While growing up in the troop I made many friends and I started to realize I wanted more out of scouting. When I became 15 and the Senior Patrol Leader elections were coming up many friends and adults in the troop said that I should run for that position. The Senior Patrol Leader is the leader of the entire troop and I was certain that I was not ready to lead 50 boys for a whole year. After much convincing from my peers, I decided to run for the position and to my surprise I won the election of Senior Patrol Leader of troop 17.
Once I became SPL every kid in the troop looked up to me as their leader. This position made me very nervous because if anything went wrong in the …show more content…
After about a month into the term the main observation I made from the position was that kids don’t want to learn and do boring stuff, all they want to do is have fun. This was difficult for me to realize and it made me angry when the kids didn’t listen to me. Many nights after scout meeting I would come home and not know what to do to get the kids to listen to me. A bunch of teenager between the age of 12 - 15 don’t want to hear about boring information, so I had to come up with a way to make meetings and campouts fun but educational. This started with me coming up with more fixed schedules for meetings and sticking to my plans more efficiently. While taking more time to plan for events the kids realized that if they do what they needed to they would have more

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