Girl Scout Calendar sales are handled by Lou Ann, who did a great job organizing the whole effort to print and sell our own Kuwait Girl Scout calendar. The USAGSO - Kuwait wall calendar is printed with pictures of our local Girl Scouts in various places in Kuwait, and we sell them for KD2.000 each (about $US6.67) locally.
Although the calendars are nice, we do want to tell those of you who are considering trading for one that there are no photos of "grand vistas" in Kuwait, this calendar was designed to show photos of each of the troops. The girls are wearing the same GSUSA uniforms that are worn in the USA, but there are a few girls in some of the photos wearing "hajabs" (Muslim head coverings.) There are a few photos that include a little scenery or a landmark in Kuwait, and one of a troop with a camel, but most are just photos of girls at the school!
The print quality is pretty good - they are printed on good, heavy paper.
The calendars are set up with the week starting on Saturday, since the weekend is Thursday-Friday here in Kuwait. Arabic numbers are used on the calendar as well as western style numerals. The Muslim holidays and Kuwait national holidays are included as well as the usual ones from the US Girl Scout calendars.
We also participate in selling official Girl Scout pocket calendars from the U.S. each year.
Our wall calendars for 1999 & 2000 are no longer available, but we do have a few copies left from 2001 and 2002 that leaders of Kuwait troops might wish to use.
Here are a few ideas for projects you might want to do with extra calendars:
Put pages in a Troop scrapbook
Decopage the cover of a Troop scrapbook
Decopage a box for trinkets
Laminate the pictures for placemats
Make a poster using the pictures for a badge requirement (could be used at registration in the fall!)
Use the pictures to make Christmas decorations
Frame your troop picture as a gift for your leader
No trades right now - too busy. Perhaps in May or later.
If you would like to trade for a 2003 calendar, please contact Katie who trades on a limited basis.
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