July 11th - Highlights and Farewell

Hello everyone,

The past few days have had some exciting new discussions, however the hectic schedule of this worldwide Girl Guide conference has prevented us from being able to keep you up to date on the proceedings. Tonight was the official closing of the 33rd WAGGGS World Conference and tomorrow morning five of us are leaving to continue on to our African Adventures and explore some of South Africa while Myrtle will be returning to Canada. So for now we will simply highlight a few key items.

On Thursday, July 10, we elected the new members to the WAGGGS World Board. The World Board then met to elect a new Chair and Deputy Chair. We are very pleased and proud to announce that the new Chair of the World Board is Margaret Treloar from Pickering, ON and the Deputy Chair is Linden Edgell from Australia. Congratulations Margaret!

Also exciting, on Friday, July 11, the conference voted that the 34th WAGGGS World Conference be held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2011. We look forward to having the event there in three years.

Though there are many exciting bits of information about the proceedings as well as numerous independent experiences we would all like to share with you, these will have to wait until we return from Africa at the end of July.

Please be sure to check the blog after July 26th to read more about what we experienced here in Johannesburg.

Until then. Good night.