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Day 9
Author: James Littlejohns | Date: 05-08-2011
People
Today unit members spent the day at the People activity on site. They took part in games, craft activities and reflections all designed to highlight better cultural understanding between the many Scouting nations who are here.
We worked with Scouts from Germany, Paraguay and the USA to name but a few.
The weather was hot and sunny!
Day 10
Author: James Littlejohns | Date: 05-08-2011
Earth - Kate Taylor updates on Day 10 of our trip away.
On the hottest day of the Jamboree so far we visit the Earth Zone. Activities here have an Environmental theme and we explore the effect of climate change and natural disasters on our own homes, putting these together with other Units from across the world we can reflect on the impact we have on the earth and how individuals can make changes for the better. Don't be surprised if the young people come home and want to recycle everything and turn off the light when not using them. This is in keeping with the whole ethos of this Jamboree where everything has been recycled, much to the distress of those Unit member who have had to sort out the bins when things have not be separated correctly.
As well as thinking about Natural Disasters we looked at the effects of water, wind and soil in our biosphere. An interesting day part fun part science lesson.
The evening sees the Unit busy starting to prepare for tomorrows cultural day... more on that later.
Day 7-8
Author: James Littlejohns | Date: 02-08-2011
Camp in Camp – Lundy Patrol.
When we arrived we met our Danish hosts Matthew and Ben who showed us round our campsite for the night. Then we cooked our lunch – soup and then we made our shelters. These were made of tarpaulin held up with poles – basic but effective. We swam in the lake and lazed in the sun. In the evening we attended a traditional Danish Campfire. After our night under the stars we woke to the sound of Katrin (Danish Scout Leader) singing and playing Guitar. There was flag break and 9am and then games. The camp split into different activities – Lundy patrol played Momo. We will leave you guessing what that involves but will hopefully play it with you when you get back. Our Danish hosts were amazing and we loved our Lundy Camp-in-Camp.
Zoe Braunton-Turner
Lundy Patrol were not the only ones to experience Camp-in-Camp, each of the patrols traveled to a different site, the other patrols camps were hosted by Swedish Scouts. All of the hosts are visiting the Jamboree site on Thursdays Culture day so we are expecting a lot of visitors to our site that day. Unlike Lundy the other camps had tents, well except Eddystone patrol who slept in a wigwam, activites included; archery, blowpiping, canoeing, camp pinball, swimming in the lakes and lots of woodland and backwoods camping skills. Hartland patrol had the delight of celebrating mid-summer Swedish Scout style.
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