BARNSTONE BROWNIES CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Members of the 1st Barnstone Brownies, pictured with Japanese visitors Youko Ichikawa (11) and Nazomi Kitazawa (10). Brownies in the Nottinghamshire village of Barnstone were caught on camera when a film crew from Japan arrived to join in the activities at their weekly pack meeting.
The camera crew were trailing Youko Ichikawa (11) and Nazomi Kitazawa (10), two girls from Komaki Primary School in Nagano, Japan, who were part of a group of six children visiting Nottinghamshire during November on an exchange trip with Cropwell Bishop Primary School.
The film, which shows the girls joining 1st Barnstone Brownies at their Tuesday evening meeting in Barnstone Village Hall, is due to be broadcast on Japanese TV on Christmas Eve during a children’s programme equivalent to the BBC’s Blue Peter.
Having already made paper fans with which to greet their guests, Barnstone Brownies were filmed bowing and saying ‘hello’ in Japanese to Youko and Nazomi, who then watched as eight pack members made their Brownie promise. The visitors helped to create make-shift outfits for the new Brownies out of bin bags and other scrap materials before joining in some games and singing ‘Brownie Bells’.
Thanks to advance research by Brown Owl Dot Clayton, the Brownie promise for Japanese Brownies was produced, which the visitors managed to recite perfectly with a little help from their English hosts, and the pack were filmed presenting Youko and Nazomi with picture frames as mementoes of their evening.