Jamboree on the Air & Jamboree on the Internet 2015 @ Gilwell Park
On Friday, 11 beautiful scouts and 4 leaders arrived at Gilwell Park. First of all we had to set up our tents, then we slept for ‘some’ of the night. On Saturday we used the internet and short wave radios to contact foreign scouts. We spoke to scouts in other countries like Australia and Malta. Our JID at Gilwell was 5GB55P. Rebecca and Millie also had a go at making Morse Code transmitters and we all had a try film making with digital effects.
In the afternoon we did an array of activities in The Lid – climbing wall, high ropes etc. In the evening we went back to the campsite and played cricket for a bit and had dinner. After dinner we were able to go back into the computer room to join in JOTI again. This time we talked to countries where it was now daytime like Canada and Chile. Mark was presented with his Chief Scouts Gold Award by a scouter from Canada via Skype.
On Sunday morning we cleared up our camp and went and found Baden Powell’s statue where Ginny and Millie got invested, then we all had our picture taken in front of the White House.
Over the weekend, between the 11 of us we managed to talk to loads of scouts in over 30 different countries across the world. Here are some of them:
Bosnia, Hungary, Ireland, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Finland, Malta, Madagascar, Portugal, Mexico, Indonesia, Sweden, Austria, France, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Egypt, Ukraine, Canada, USA, Scotland, Chile, Switzerland, Mauritius.
Dictated by all of the scouts in between our chicken korma and pudding, penned by Ellie