Being the assistant girl scout leader, when the kids went camping, I went with them. I started assisting with the girl scouts when my daughters first joined, and it stuck with me. The first time we went camping, the girls were excited, but I wasn’t. I thought we would be sleeping in smelly tents that didn’t have heat, AC, or bathrooms inside. I was right about the tents, but not about where the leaders stayed. We had tents that were centralized within their troop, but we had HVAC, lights, and a portable shower/bathroom right off the porch. I was now excited to go camping with the girl scouts. The first night we were there, one of the camp rangers came up to us. He told us we had to stay in the common room for the night, because there were bear sightings in the campground. The common room had electricity, but it had wall to floor windows in every direction. We made a game out of going outside in groups so we could all have a bathroom break. The nice thing was that we had a stocked kitchen and HVAC in the common room. The hum of the air conditioning lulled the girls to sleep, but I was awake all night. There was only one light on in the kitchen but Imagined the bears were looking in the window at me, and sat trying to see out the windows all night long. After a comfortable night’s sleep, the girls were ready for a day of fun, but I was falling asleep as I walked. I didn’t wake up until I got out of the heat and back into the air conditioning of the common room.