Warwick celebrates Girl Scout International Night

Warwick - They played a Mexican game called “The Coyote and the Chicken,” a German game of nine pin bowling called Kegelin, sang Irish and Austrian songs and enjoyed sampling a variety of foreign dishes. Girl Scout International Night, Hosted by Brownie Troop No. 195, led by Joan Tarasevich, and Brownie Troop No. 756, led by Lisa Rice and Nancy Appelquist, took place at the Warwick Valley Middle School Cafeteria on Friday evening, March 10. Fourteen Warwick troops participated by representing 12 countries including Mexico, Ireland, Spain, France, Austria, Greece, Egypt, Congo, South Africa, Russia, China and Japan. The Girl Scouts performed songs, dances and skits that would represent their particular country. And each country had a table with facts and photos, welcome signs in the official language, road signs with the “distance” to the next country, and, best of all, a selection of that country’s native dishes. The evening fare included quesadillas, French onion soup, Polish pierogies, Irish soda bread, Spanish orange/almond cake, fortune cookies, and a Viennese table with sachertorte, linzertorte, bretzels and Austrian hot chocolate. Tables were set up geographically to represent a “tour around the world,” and each country had a traditional game for the children to play. Performances included “The Unicorn Song,” “So Long, Farewell” from the Sound of Music, the Mexican Hat Dance, the Chinese Dragon dance and a Japanese Fan Dance. Skits were “The Turnip,” a Russian Folktale, a Tour de France and various readings of interesting facts about far away lands. The girls raised more than $400 during the evening and all proceeds from the event were donated to Heifer International, an organization dedicated to helping people throughout the world obtain a sustainable source of food and income by being given cows or other tools of production.