Troop4435

Greetings from the Brownies of Girl Scout Troop 4435. Our troop has 15 members and meets in Fairfax Station, Virginia, United States of America. That is located just outside our nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. We just started Third Grade at Fairview and White Oaks Elementary Schools. Our Girl Scout Troop Crest is the Bluebird, which stands for happiness and good fortune. We wish both of these for you! As Girl Scouts, we enjoy earning badges, singing songs, selling cookies, camping outdoors, attending activities, serving others, making friends, being silly, and having lots of fun!

We are sending postcards as part of our World of Girls Leadership Journey. We hope to make contact with women and girls around the world and hear their stories. We would love to know if you were ever a Girl Scout or Girl Guide and your favorite scouting memory!

Almost all of our postcards have been received with enthusiasm, but we wanted to share a bit more about how our postcards made it to your mailbox and why we send the same card to all of our recipients. At several troop meetings over the course of three months, the troop brainstormed and sketched potential postcard concepts, decided collectively on the overall design, drafted the letter to share about themselves, selected the picture for the front, picked images for the back, and digitized their signatures. After assembling a proof postcard, they edited and revised everything until the felt it was just right. The troop then used money that they earned selling Girl Scout cookies to have the postcards professionally printed and to purchase the postage.

We initially ordered 50 postcards. After keeping 15 of them as mementos for each troop member, we plan to send out the remaining 35. For each postcard we send and receive, we are physically tracking on a large map where it went or where it came from and how long it took to travel. We are also creating a scrapbook that displays the cards we receive as well as the kind words shared by those who received our postcard. Both these activities help to make the postcard exchange more concrete for the troop. So far there has been much excitement and we still have many more postcards to go!

In Friendship,
Girl Scout Troop 4435