Jamboree 2008 – part 1
Its 5am on a wet and cold Friday morning not even the milk men are out of bed yet two scouts stand stripping tents down to the roof of a Jeep.
It can only mean one thing – Its the start of Jamboree 2008 !
Alot of hard work, time and money has onto the preparation for Jambo. All of our equipment from gas stoves to kitchens to tents needed replaced this year, which came at a great expense! Many many man hours went into packing people’s bags in Tesco for the hope of that all shinny £1 coin!
Jamboree 2008, Ireland! marks the 100th year anniversary of Scouting in Ireland, Ireland was the first country(after England) to adopt the ‘scouting for boys handbook’ laid out by Lord Baiden Powell in 1907 in England. Last year we in Scouting UK celebrated 100 years and now its time to give our younger neighbours a hand!
For scouts and scouters – Jamborees are what it is all about, the chance to camp with and meet people from all over the globe, sharing stories and cultures, drinks and laughs and coming away with life long friends and future trips back and forth to see one another’s countries.
For many of the boys aged 10-14, this is their first big camp truth be told as many camps as I have been to, Im yet to see what 20,000 people in one field looks like! The older boys aged 16-17 have now been camping together for a few years and have developed a tight bond and as for the leaders, well we have the scar’s from the last 10 years to prove our worth, some of the leaders 25 years for that matter!
Heres to a good camp – Jamboree 2008! Ireland!
Shamboree!
It could have been great!
I think maybe Shamboree is a bit harsh from talking to the camp chief a lot of volenteer staff did not turn up to run the event. This left the whole event very short and for H+S reasons certain event could not be run. In terms of the camp be canceled for the cubs and then for everyone on saturday, I think it was handled very well. We got an unexpected amount of rain which flooded the site, I think that the civil defense did what they do best and got the kids dry and safe as quick as possible. When all is said and done, my kids had a blast and this in my opinion is the most important thing of all, even if I was up till midnight in the church on sunday drying out tents!
More to follow