Communication

clip_image002After sending a load of emails of to various people in my Group and the District I thought how much easier it is to communicate today. I can email any documents to my Leaders that they may need in a fraction of a second. I can also send information to multiple people in one go. Isn’t it great?

Also typing letters is so much easier, as I type it into Word, check the spelling(!) and send it to my printer. I can remember Dad typing letters to Cub parents when I was a kid and he’d use his typewriter and loads of carbon paper. Luckily he was good at typing, spelling and had a good idea of what he was going to type beforehand – unlike me!

The great thing is I can email my old Scout Leader when he is working at the South Pole on his telescope, all my other friends around the world, all my Group’s Leaders and Carol when I’m on my PC upstairs and she’s watching the TV downstairs!

However, I have to remember I can’t just rely on email. Some of our Leaders don’t have it and some don’t check it as often as others (unlike me as I’m on my PC at work all the time and the PC at home is rarely off). We would love to be able to send letters home to parents by email and then they don’t get lost or forgotten about.

So we still have to actually talk to each other, be it in person or by phone and sometimes that’s the best way to communicate. The written word sometimes cannot convey the meaning of a sentence the way saying it can.