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Dot's Travels

Hi! My name’s Dorothy Com – or Dot Com to my friends. As you can see, I’m a Brownie just like you. Through the power of the Internet I have travelled the world through cyber space and here are some Brownie friends I met along the way.

Australia

Sydney was the venue for the 2000 Olympic Games and is also where Tamsin lives. The first people to live in Australia were the Aborigines. They came from south-east Asia around 40,000 years ago. Australia is a huge country where families often live many miles from their nearest neighbour. In the dry, harsh outback in central Australia you can travel for days over the dry red sands without meeting anyone. Many children in the outback take part in Brownies using a two-way radio as it is too far to go to the Brownie meetings.

Brazil

Maria lives in Brazil, the largest country in South America. The Amazon River snakes its way across the north of the country, passing through the world’s largest area of tropical rainforest. Like most Brazilians, Maria speaks Portuguese. Every year Maria and her family love to join the famous carnival in Rio de Janeiro. This spectacular street party marks the start of Lent and lasts for five days. It is full of stunning costumes, large colourful floats, and loud samba music.

USA

The United States of America is the fourth largest country in the world. It stretches a third of the way around the Earth and is divided into 50 States. In the USA you’ll find desert, dramatic mountains, huge waterfalls, freezing temperatures and tropical beaches. Lauren is a Junior Girl Scout in Florida, the ‘sunshine state’ and the home of Disneyland.

India

Nisha is from India, a vast country in Asia – the world’s largest continent. She lives in Bombay, one of the busy cities there. India also has a big desert (the Thar Desert), tropical forests, and snow- and ice-covered mountains (The Himalayas). There are many beautiful buildings such as the Taj Mahal. About a thousand languages and dialects are spoken in India. When Nisha is not wearing her Bulbul (Brownie) uniform, she usually wears a traditional bright-coloured sari. India is very famous for its spices, and Nisha likes to buy saffron-flavoured jalebi sweets from the street stalls.

South Africa

Sellinah lives near one of the beautiful national parks in South Africa. This is where the ‘Big Five’ endangered species – elephants, rhinoceroses, lions, leopards and cheetahs – are protected. South Africa also has more diamonds than any other country on Earth and the world’s largest goldfield. Sellinah loves to eat the grapes, pineapples, oranges and mangoes that grow in the warm sunshine. She is of Zulu descent (an African tribe) and she taught me how to say ‘sakubona’ (hello) and ‘hamba kahle’ (goodbye) in Zulu.

France

Although Pascale lives just outside Paris, she spends the summer with her grandparents in the south of France, enjoying the sunshine and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea. In the warm evenings, her grandfather plays pétanque (a bit like bowls) with his friends in the village square. In winter, she enjoys skiing on the snowy slopes of the French Alps. As a Jeannette (a French Brownie), Pascale has explored most of Paris’s famous buildings, including the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral.

To join Dot in finding out about all these Brownies why not visit their web sites?

India - www.tbsgi.org
South Africa - www.girlguides.za.org
Australia - www.guidesaus.org.au
USA - www.girlscouts.org
France - www.guidesdefrance.asso.fr

If you want to find out more about Brownies and Guides in your local area why not visit their excellent web site:

www.girlguiding.org.uk