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23rd WSJ - Japan

Day 15 back to work

By Alastair on Monday, August 3, 2015

Up and changed and went to see the guys who want us to move our tent. The guy in charge is Robert a Dutch guy who I worked with in Sweden, like most Dutch he was pretty relaxed about it but it appears his boss is a Brit and a bit more stressed about us! …

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Day 14 Day off

By Alastair on Saturday, August 1, 2015

Every module at the Jamboree closes for one day and today was the turn of Science. With a lie in until 8, this is when the tent gets so hot you can’t stay in it we were up and showered, breakfast before deciding to look in the Scout shop, with rumours of 5 hour queues …

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Day 13 First day at work

By Alastair on Friday, July 31, 2015

Up and breakfast then off to the Science Module. Canon have arrived, the future of photography is no more than a over engineered way for the participants to have a group photo taken.  We started off with. 5 IST but 2 disappeared leaving myself, Bjorn from Sweden and Scott from the UK. Bjorn gathers together …

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Day 12 Opening Ceremony

By Alastair on Thursday, July 30, 2015

Up and off to breakfast before heading to the Science Module, finally met someone from Canon but guess what…”come back tomorrow”. So I helped out in the HQ with some admin, it appears that the Japanese guy in charge of Dvience was told by his employer 2 days ago that he had to go back …

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Day 11 Arrivals Day

By Alastair on Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Up early in our new home, best nights sleep so far so looks like a good decision, we are still undecided to move or not, if Nutt moves we will move.    After a shower off to get breakfast, a 2 hour queue! They are letting participants in who have just arrived so hopefully a …

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Day 10 Water water….

By Alastair on Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Well the winds didn’t show but the rainceratinly did! 5:30 this morningChris called cross to me, I opened the door to my part of the tent and the floor was an inch deep in water and it was still raining!      We got up and went for a shower as the rain started to …

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Day 9 IST opening

By Alastair on Monday, July 27, 2015

Awake at 5:30 this morning with the wind blowing a gale, there is a tropical stir on the way apparently. Showered we headed down for breakfast along with the other 5,000 IST. After breakfast and picking up our lunch we made our way to the done for our first IST training session. We were thanked …

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Day 6 Gadgets and Gods

By Alastair on Sunday, July 26, 2015

We left the appartment mid morning after a reasonable nights sleep, 3 footons was semi comfortable, and headed to the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, our home for the next 2 days. There were loads of Brit IST coming and going as we made our way to get checked in, we dropped off our bags and headed …

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Day 7 Shake, Sumo and Wow

By Alastair on Sunday, July 26, 2015

Up and out at 11.00 to catch the train to a Sum restaurant with 300 other UK IST we arrived and were seated, before us was a selection of foods and a pot containing vegetables and chicken, a host came around and turned on the cooker and the mix started to boil and cook the …

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Day 8 Hiroshima

By Alastair on Sunday, July 26, 2015

An early start this morning, alarm going off at 5:30, no sign of Chris! Grabbed a shower and messaged Chris, in he walked he’d been up all night!! Packing as quickly as we could we headed to check out and the UK team batched us up in our train times ready to make our way …

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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 the IST (International Service Team) at the 25th World Scout Jamboree being held in Korea in July & August 2023. Please excuse any poor grammar, spelling or typos, I’m probably sat in a field doing the blog on my phone or iPad šŸ˜€.

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