Bloomin' 'Eck - Talk About Busy!

As you know, I was originally aiming to update this blog about once every couple of days, but I've fallen behind slightly as I was so busy and so will do my best to catch up, starting where I left off last time - 29th July.

We woke up on this day to find out that Aquaville had been cancelled due to a problem with the generator (the Gloucester Unit maintain that the hamster died), so the day was in effect given over to choice time. This meant that I could show my mum and dad round as Day Visitors, and that they could take me out for lunch in Hylands Cafe. It was hard, though, when it came to leaving them at the end of the day! The Arena show that was put on for the day visitors certainly appears amazing, and it made the signiature tune "Jabagai" stick in my head. In the evening we ran round the site completing tasks for "Challenge 100", and I got my right knee covered in mud!

After a decent night's sleep, the 30th held for us the challenge of Starburst. We were fearful of a hard day's labour spent cutting down trees or hacking away brambles, but in the end we were taken to the seaside town of Birnam-on-Crouch for dance lessons and instructions on giving the locals tours of the area. Both of these were things we put into practice in the afternoon, along with attendance of an exhibition on ageing. (I took a leaflet on incontinence.) That night, we

The 31st was our first programme day which we spent on-site, and was divided between the Global Development Village in the morning and Choice Time after lunch. I ended up going to one of the GloBuses, before taking one of the Unit Leaders up on her request that one of our Unit read a testimony on what Scouting means to them. I consequently wrote mine (after a relaxing afternoon in the English Tea House), and performed it after registering as a Young Correspondent and hurriedly legging it back to the Canyon Stage!

Scouting's Sunrise took place today, on 1st August. After an amazing Sunrise Ceremony in the morning, we then went back and prepared for our Food Festival. This was, for us, the offering of traditional strawberries and cream as well as provision of pull-based "Ascot Races". After this, we created a pseudo-monarchy before leaving for Choice Time.

That's all from me as I have only 10 seconds of internet time left.