hoho day 2 8-9-11

It felt brilliant not being woken up by the morning sun bursting through your tent. The day started by jmeeeting up with the other local gln in helsinki center. Firstly we went to themodern art gallery, which we all found interesting for different reasons. After that we had lunch and while we were doing so we bumped into Mike Parks head of the uk contingent. Then we walked over to the Natural history museum where we were given a backstage tour by one of our ho ho hosts. This tour included the of collections of practicaly every animal and sea creature, we alsogot to see the taxidermic proccess which was very intersting. Lastly we went to the Sibelioush monument which was an amazing sculpture. Tonightwe are visiting the local scout troop.

Nathaniel Sampson
APL

Home Hospitality

So here we are, it's the end of the Word Scout Jamboree. Greater London North have left Rinkaby and the jamboree site behind. After an eventful 27 hours of travelling by a coach to Stokholm and then a cruise ship accross the Baltic, GLN have gone our seperate ways and have spread out accross the suburbs of Helsinki for our four days of Home Hospitality. I (Josh) am saying in the town of Espoo (apparently it's pronounced es-paw) with David Ogufere from Northern Patrol with the Muttonen familly, after greetig us as we got off the ship with a large banner saying "Welcome David and Josh", they took us back to their house to drop off our kit before taking us on a guided tour around the beautiful city of Helsinki. Tomorrow we're going to the theme park in Helsinki, but for now i believe its about time we enjoyed these famous Finnish saunas i've heard so much about....

Off to Ho Ho

After a spectacular, if very wet, closing ceremony in the round GLN Unit cleared our site and bedded down in the remaining tents for two hours` sleep. We had a six and a half hour coach journey and are just reaching Stockholm.

Unit verdict on our Jambo tents - Horracious!

Beads and Irish Stew

Song of the day: All the small things, Blink182
Since all the other patrols have reported on big events such as the day of culture and the camp in camp, I have decided to talk about a smaller event. Throughout the Jamboree there has been a daily Irish challenge at the Irish tent. For every challenge you complete you get a bead, some of these challenges included eating Irish food (so difficult I had to do it twice), making a recycled Irish flag and finding the names of ALL the groups from Ireland.
Along with the Irish challenge there have been various other small events such as spontaneous activities and finding out where Wally is. Most of our unit has attended at least one faith and belief ceremony and we have all sampled some of the amazing food available in the main square. It's not just the big events that make the jamboree such a great experience.


Oh and just to clarify the song of the day for the last Waterloo post was (of course) the Jamboree song.

A Late Update

Hi, Everyone,
Sorry it has taken us so long to update you but its been so busy here at the jamboree we never know what to next!
Yesterday was the day of culture and it was amazing. The different foods we got to try from all corners of the world, learn about all the different ways of living and like the whole jamboree, experience a variety of cultures first hand!
We made fish and chips to give to people and that went really well as we had people queuing for our food :D
We also had tower bridge ready with a gate that lifted up and down!
As well as all of this a group of the boys(including our patrol leader will) chose to become our guards all dressed up and did the 'changing of the guards'.
What Fun!

This experience has been amazing and will never forget it,
Why does it have to end? :'(

Will blog soon,
Victoria Patrol

Happy blogging :)

Camp in Camp

For the Camp in Camp module of the Jamboree, Piccadilly Patrol traveled to a beautiful campsite in the lakeside town of 'Sundit', which is located in the middle of southern Sweden. We were joined by Portuguese, Belgian, Italian and German scouts. As we arrived after a 2 and a half hour coach journey we got our first glimpse of the amazing views across a shimmering lake with luscious green trees and a stunningly sandy beach. On the day we arrived we canoed across the lake and spent the day taking part in water activities which included soap hockey and a water relay race. that evening our hosts treated us to an inspiring insight into traditional Swedish scouting. They invited us to join them in Swedish Campfire and a traditional Swedish camp church which was run by the scout leaders who are also the towns pastors. The next day it was our turn to take part in the forest project, this included a highly eventful and epic game of Capture The Flag in which we played against the Germans and the Italians. After Capture The Flag we made necklaces out of tin. Before leaving Sundit we presented our host with gifts to remind them of their guests from London.

Day of Culture

Yesterday was our day of culture, we went all out British with flags and bunting galore. Our pioneered tower bridge had working gates which were operated by out beef eater guards, who also changed the guard every half hour. The greatest attration was to try and get out guards to move the extent people went to to achieve this was incredible, the extent of some people's efforts was somewhat unsuitable but extravagant. Once the visitors had entered our tower bridge we offered them traditional fish and chips wrapped in Kate and wills newspaper cuttings, which went down especially well with the Americans. overall the day was a great success with every country out on show, showing off cultural food costumes and dance.