Wsj2007

[Scary Monster]

World Scout Jamboree 2007, this summer, UK.

Anyone going? ~Anyone heard abou it?

I know at first glance it just sounds like a scout camp but there is so much more to it than that, and you'll find 40 000 kids from all over the world enjoying activities together, from adventurous ones to global development ones will teach them a lot about each other, themselves, their world and tolerance.

[MrG]

My father is going, as part of the service team, i would have thought about it too, though theres no way i could take the time off work.

[Scary Monster]

Yay! Any ideas what he's doing yet or is he still in the murky darkness? I'm lucky, I'm on placement this summer which just about fits in before it starts. I'm going to staff the watersports site.

[xsazx]

not this year as had to leave my troop (young leader's were ridiculous there was a huge fight between them and police called etc so mum didn't want me to go any more) but would like to go again when I change troops :) guiding did a similar one which was just as good but the scouts didn't like me being a guide at the same time (despite in Powell's eyes them being brothers/sisters :rolleyes: )

[Scary Monster]

I'm pretty sure Guiding didn't so a similar one, smaller event possibly. It only happens every 4 years (ish) and has Scouts from all over the world.

Shame about your Scouts, it sounds unusual it has to be said. Would have thought there should be plenty more scout troops around though, or aren't you old enough for Explorers yet?

[xsazx]

could have been with brownies and it wasn't to the scale of jamborees thinking Kent/SE (i'll hunt my sash out later) but its a boot shaped badge could have been 2000 special =\ cant remember.

yea i'll go into explorers when I join up with the next villages troop (mine was very small the scout group got down to me and one other at one point) so i tended to help out with the cubs meetings as well before hand for my young leaders award.

It got to the point with out young leaders being complete fruitcakes though (two of them were dating and split) which ended up in a huge fight with broken bottles etc infront of the tiny cubs etc really scared when one of the adult leaders called the police to break it up.

Mum wrote to the district leaders cause it was ridiculous them being in a position of authority and from then i left (probs about 3 years ago now) but would love to go back as was much better than guides they were to girly-girly for me. Live in the middle of no where so is more a case of looking round I suppose =]

[Scary Monster]

Sounds very odd.

The brownie thing you're talking about sounds like a regional camp, they are very different but if you enjoyed that and get back into being a member of Scouting then there are lots of those and international camps around that you can go to as staff once you're over 16/18.

[Firefly-86]

Lets be honest. Its going to be rubbish because they didnt want any of the long standing scout activity teams to be there to run activities. Just incase we were not still around when it came round, and becasue we were not envirnomentally friendly enough.

Ah well there lose.:yeees:

[Scary Monster]

Let's be fair, it isn't going to be rubbish. Bits may not have been as good as they could have been, but I wouldn't go as far as rubbish.

[Firefly-86]

Ok it may not be quite that bad, but theyre still missing out on some of the better teams by using that rubbish excuse thats all and envirnomentally friendly lol theyre using a fleet of coachs to take them all over the place to do stuff off-site.

[Scary Monster]

Although as far as I know there was nothing stopping members of those teams applying for the jobs.

They're only bussing to Splash! and Gilwell, which seems fair because they are good places to do the activities and it gets 2 sets of people off site a day which eases the space issues too.

It's fairly rubbish on the environment front, you kind of wish they'd stop trying to pretend otherwise.

[Firefly-86]

I know some members of the team that are going, 2 helping with staff catering and 1 helping the bat team (although not sure thats there).

[purplebutterfly]

My dads going to help with the camp site set-up. But he works for the scouts anyway.