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22nd WSJ - Sweden

Day 15 Copenhagen Airport

By Alastair on Monday, August 8, 2011

Arrived at 3:00 Scouts everywhere Check In is not yet open.

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Day 14 Pack Up and Party

By Alastair on Monday, August 8, 2011

Got off shift at 4 after a hard day and headed back to the tent. Had a welcome shower then packed the tent and kit. We headed for Dinner and on the way out we had a impromptu game of catch with some Japanese, Australians and Belgians. We packed the trailer. Then time to head …

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Day 14 Participants Leave

By Alastair on Monday, August 8, 2011

Units started to leave early this morning Avon left at 4 and Glos at 9. I was up at 6 to work at 7 and site looked spookly empty. Some of the Scouts had decamped to the tents in the World Scout Centre to avoid the rain. The shift was spent taking down tents. and …

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Day 13 Closing Ceremony

By Alastair on Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Jamboree Closing Ceremony marks the official end to the Jamboree with over 40,000 Scouts gathered to say goodbye. An amazing site to see everyone. Some great music from Kate Ryan (Belgium Hottie!) and Europe (of the Final Countdown fame). The King of Sweden said his official speech then led the way in a rocket …

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Day 13 Deconstruction Begins

By Alastair on Sunday, August 7, 2011

After 2 weeks today is the last day of the Jamboree for participants with many that will start to leave after the Closing Ceremony. The city that took months to build needs to be packed away in a few days so deconstruction begins with tents coming down. It was due to be a day off …

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Day 13 The King

By Alastair on Saturday, August 6, 2011

Just seen the King of Sweden in the dining hall. He was queuing up to drop off his dirty plates with all the other scouts, fair play no hoards of security of pushing to the front. He apparently spent the night in a tent on site. He’s in thus photo but don’t think I’ll make …

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Day 12 Where I’ve Lived

By Alastair on Saturday, August 6, 2011

I had lunch after getting back from Kristianstad to find the site dry with no rain for the rest of the day. Work at 2 was generally uninteresting except 4 Scouts from Siera Leone have left camp without any one knowing!! Looks like they want to become European! Generally a chilled evening. Grabbed a few …

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Day 12 Kristianstad

By Alastair on Friday, August 5, 2011

On 2-8 shift today so got up just in time for breakfast at 9. We headed back to the tent where Tom & James said they were heading into Kristianstad on the free bus bring put only the town. I decided to tag along and Lucy joined us. I feel like the dad as they …

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Day 11 Cultural Day

By Alastair on Friday, August 5, 2011

Up on early shift this morning for 7 – 2 not much happening so we signed up my Dutch mate Reuben on Facebook he’s 18 and not on it yet. He spent the next 5 hours adding friends!! After shift I headed for the Gloucestershire contingent who were celebrating Culture Day. This is were every …

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Day 11 Tivoli Fairground

By Alastair on Thursday, August 4, 2011

One of the spontaneous activities for the participants on site is Tivoli, this is a fairground made entirely of wood and rope. The also have a haystack that the kids climb using ice axes and crampons before coming down a zip wire. Various swings. They even have a big wheel!

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Hi, I'm Alastair or Ali, I'm a Scout Leader from the UK. My current adventure is to be part of team leading 36 amazing Young People from Gloucestershire to the World Scout Jamboree being held in the USA in July & August 2019. Please excuse any poor grammar, spelling or typos, I’m sat in a field doing the blog on my phone or iPad 😀.

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