So, today the weather has been a little changeable. And the long term forecast is pretty poor. Still no news on what IST job i'm doing. But i did hear a rumour that they've filled the toilet cleaning team. Which could mean TBA next to my name for the job, doesn't mean Toilet Brush Army! Off to BBQ tonight, and then maybe some packing! Bye!
Arrangements have finally been sorted. Firstly, before the Jamboree, I'm camping at Blackwell Court, Bromsgrove. After final discussions with Junior and Lodders (Laura and Dave!) we've decided to all meet up on Sunday evening at Blackwell and camp overnight there. Monday morning, the plan is to leave at roughly midday. To get to London, (or should I get into the lingo, Laaandan!! <-maybe not!) we will be going via Tewksbury, a nice straight route, NOT! After a short stop at Mr & Mrs Lod's house, it's off to Laaandan, sorry London and then to Billericay, Essex. We're all stopping over at my Auntie and Uncle B's house. Actually in their garden in tents. It'll be like a huge adventure!! 3 weeks and camping at a number of different locations. Great fun. The rain should help too!! Tuesday morning, hopefully, with a quick trip past the site (as it is on the way to North Wield), we will head to the start of the 2.5 weeks. After some time booking in and faffing, we should be able to make our way to the actual site, walk for 45 minutes carrying all our kit, and arrive at the IST Adult Camp site. This will be home to the 10,000 people who will support the Jamboree. From there, we need to sort out selves out, set tents up and so on. The tents will be set up depending on where we are working. Unfortunately, we don't know what we're doing yet. Hopefully we will find out before we leave!! So watch this space!! After getting ourselves sorted, and a number of meetings, the first meal on-site we are to have will be on the evening. In the "largest structure on site", 135m Adult restaurant. And the menu, looks like a nice varied menu. It's making me hungry already. Then from there, we don't know what we're up to. Depending on what role we've got and where we are working, depends on what we're up to. As for this past weekend, the plan, seeing as I wasn't doing anything, was to pack. I managed to sort out most of my clothes, they are now washed, not packed tho! I also sorted out some of the other bits and bobs I'm planning to take. As for packing, not much got actually packed, infact, nothing did! Well, that'll be a job for sometime later in the week. I did however go to a great BBQ on Saturday night. Excellent fun. Tonight, Explorers, we should be making video's to teach a child colours. Interesting concept, but requires a long explanation!! Speak soon, ttfn
For anyone who wants to send me anything via snail-mail here is my postal address at the Jamboree: Mr David Fitzgerald Adult Camping Area 21st World Scout Jamboree Hylands Park Chelmsford Essex CM2 8WG If you want to email me while I'm there, use: ISTFitz@Gmail.com I hope to be picking these up while I'm there. Please don't send any attachments, I won't be able to see them!! As for my mobile phone, that will probably be off most of the time.
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!! ttfn
Woo-hoo poi poi have arrived!
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.
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.
