South African troop in Bohuslän Subcamp, Autumn Town
Author: drakensberg
We’ve just rolled in from the closing concert. See you all on Monday!
Author: drakensberg
We are seated in the main arena for the closing ceremony. Packing is mostly done, and tomorrow we board our bus at 7:30 to begin the trip back to Johannesburg.
Friends have been made, badges traded, stories told, new food tasted and many new things learnt.
Author: drakensberg
Today was a rest day for us after doing Dream, a night activity, until the early hours of this morning. After a late breakfast, most of us spent the day trading badges or visiting the last of the activities we are interested in.
Tomorrow sees us starting to pack up, and then going to a closing ceremony that will carry on until the early morning. On Sunday we catch a bus at 7.30 then our trip back to O.R.Tambo begins via Gotheborg and Frankfurt.
Author: drakensberg
After the cultural activities this afternoon, we headed off to the arena to meet our camp-in-camp hosts for a concert event, complete with BMX stunts, skydivers landing in the arena, and Swedish pop music.
Author: drakensberg
Today was the Cultural day in camp,and Drakensberg have just come off the sub-camp stage after leading the subcamp in Shoshaloza, Loslappie, kwaito dancing and the national anthem.
There were also many different foods on offer from all the participating countries, from Mopane worms to coconut ice and Korean kim chi dumplings. More photographs will follow tomorrow.
Author: drakensberg
The Jamboree Memory Package went on sale yesterday. It needs to be ordered online. The cost will be 265SEK until the end of the Jamboree and 295SEK afterwards. The order form and more information is here.
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All four patrols went to different small campsites around Southern Sweden. Here are some photographs from Rhino’s trip.
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This evening all of the Springbok Scouts (4 participants and 4 Scouters) from Drakensberg attended a meeting of the Association of Top Achiever Scouts,which recognises Springbok, Queen Scout,King Scout, Eagle Scout, Tiger Scout and other equivalent ‘top’ awards. On the way back we stopped in the Autumn town centre, where most of the activities in our ‘town’ (the biggest division of the camp).
A folk band was playing traditional songs from this part of Sweden. There is an inflatable planetarium, a bouldering wall, an internet cafe, a cafe serving coffee, a first aid tent, and a charging station for cameras,phones etc. The large apple basket represents the harvest that happens during Autumn.
Tomorrow morning at 8:50 we leave for our camp-in-camp experience,where we will spend 24 hours camping as individual patrols.
Author: drakensberg
Today’s activities were in Global Development Village. Rob,one of the Belgian Scouters in our unit, has spent hours arranging an exchange. This morning, two of our patrols lined up with Scouts from 16 other troops to form mixed international patrols with Scouts from different countries. This is the second time our subcamp has done this,and it has helped people meet more people.
Global Development Village deals with world peace and human rights issues. One of the bases is about Shelter Box,a tent and survival kit in a box designed to support a family of ten. Scouts help distribute these boxes in areas affected by disaster.
Following on from the mixed patrol experience,many of our Scouts have completed the Friendship Award,a special Jamboree challenge they can only complete by participating as a mixed patrol.
(Photos from the opening ceremony and last few days are still on their way)
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