2 weeks to the Jamboree starts!!

Loadsa stuff to do between now and then.

Hopefully, I will have most of it done this weekend. After a little tidying up (and removing stupid items!), I've got 83 out of the 91 items I wanted to take.

But before then, I need to pop to Kinver. Looks like someone (that be me then!) forgot to give the key back to the duty warden. Oooppss!! So need to pop that back.

But it's OK because I played with my poi last night. Great fun!!

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Poi poi!

Woo-hoo poi poi have arrived!

Time for a pic!

In less than 2 weeks I'll be off to the jamboree. It suddenly got kinda scary at the point i realised it was all going to Be over in a months time! Should get car back today with everything fixed. Tonight is the Pathfinder debrief meeting. Last night was the fellowship BBQ. Sam was a little tired. Hence the pic. And lastly, i hope my poi arrive today. Poi are balls on string that tricks are done with. For more info see www.poipoi.info. See you soon.

IST job allocations have landed!!!

But before we get onto the job allocations, there was last weekend.

District Camp

By the end of last week, the Jamboree seemed months away. With setting tents up Thursday night, food ordering Wednesday night and arriving out at District Camp Friday night, it was all a little confused!! By Friday, my car was more than a little dead. It's making a really horrid scraping noise. I think it's either the clutch or the gear box. Not a nice noise!!!

I've just found out that the gear box has gone and the clutch is on it's way out. A new clutch and a second-hand gear box is going to cost me about £260. Nice piece of information for a Monday!

Explorers

This weekend, once again the Explorers have been excellent. They've had great fun doing loadsa different things. I think the highlight of the weekend was when they took Sam on the bouncy castle and they all played with him very gently so that he could enjoy it. Sam loved it!!

IST Jobs

So, which brings me on to IST jobs. Claire came over to see me over the weekend and informed me that the jobs had been listed on the internet. Unfortunately I couldn't remember my number. When I got back, I had a closer look and found my number. I'm TBA. To Be Allocated. So is Lod, however, we did both put the same things down. Makes sense that we are both TBA!!. I've spoken to Junior and she's on Food and Trading. The title kinda gives it away!!.

So, basically Lod and I won't probably know until we get down to Hylands Park. Kinda makes it more exciting, but you can't plan to take certain items depending on the job you're doing.

Time for Explorers soon, apple pie making this evening, so ttfn.

Checked post and there's a letter . . . .

As I got home, I checked under the door and there was a number of letters. One of the letters was from the IST Team!!! Yippee!!!! It looks like I might actually find out what I'm going to do, but my hopes have been dashed!!! The letter was just talking about stuff I've actually foundout on the website.

Anyway, so this evening, we've done the £300 shopping for District camp this weekend to feed 40 people.

Going to setup our tents for District camp tomorrow night.

Still no news on job . . . . .

I raced home last night, well, within the speed limit's anyway, to see if any news on which job I'm doing at the Jamboree. I did hear a rumour that I'm on bog duty for toilets numbered 10,352 - 12,634. Only joking, but still haven't heard. In fact, no-one I know has heard. I've checked the Jamboree website today, and it says that they are sending out in "dribs and drabs". It also doesn't help that there wasn't any post yesterday due to the Post Office strikes!! However, I had forgotten about this!!

Yesterday the Jamboree song was launched. It's available from Tesco's via the below link (and find it from there!!)

http://www.tesco.com/entertainment/

The ideas is if loadsa people download it may get to no 1. I think the top 40 would be an achievement. The song Jambo isn't too bad and I quite like the other song One World One Promise which are on the £4.99 CD. I've yet to get my copy, but I gave Claire a lift home last night and she'd bought it.

Explorers last night they started to make a DVD on colours for Sam. Sam (Steph's Son - See Steph Blog) has Down's Syndrome. He is doing really well with signing. Everyone's working on colours at the moment. Next week the Explorers will video it. We'll see what they produce.

Current counter on my Jamboree list is:

Got 62 Items
Not Got 31 Items.

Anyway, ttfn, tonight is getting the food order sorted for District Camp this weekend.

Failed at the first hurdle!!

I'm not doing too well at this. Last week I decided to try to blog each day. Unfortunately, I only managed 2 days out of 6. Last weekend, Pathfinder, went excellently, even with the rain!!!

Friday, the Explorers worked really hard to get the camp together. Fantastic job. Followed, closely by the opening ceremony. After which was the evening activity. Each unit had a box of bits and they had to create a device to fire a bean bag/tennis ball a distance. Our unit's attempt is shown below (The upsidedown table!!):



Unfortunately their actual firing attempt managed -2 inches. They all laughed at it tho. It was quite funny especially as they didn't have a practice attempt because they took too long setting it up!!! So, basically they spent about 20 minutes setting up to accidently fire backwards.

Saturday saw Explorers on activities and me sorting disco equipment out for the evening do. While I was checking all lights were working, I took this picture:



Disco was brilliant. Unfortunately, someone (not sure who!!! :-) ) put the Birdie song on. But all the Explorers danced to it!! It was a great atmosphere.

Sunday came with the 3rd day of camping in the rain, but luckily everything dried out in the afternoon when the sun came out. Laura (Junior) was also in camp with her Explorer unit and my close friends Julie and Adam. Unfortunately on the Saturday morning she twisted her ankle while Skiing, so her Explorers drove her round in a trolley all weekend:



Very funny!!! It was time to sleep by the time we had got the minibus away and all the kit. All in all, a great weekend tho.

Tonight is Explorers. Not sure what we are doing yet!

ttfn,

F.