1, 2, Cha Cha Cha, 3, 4, Cha Cha Cha!

    So I apologise for not posting on Monday but I have been crazy busy all week because I am currently doing Grease the musical at my local theatre and have had rehearsals every night this week!!!
Tiring? Yes... very!

    So I am currently working on the page about the book 'A Geek in Japan' which I promised you earlier in my blog.
    Sorry for the short post today but after this week I have finished school and my show so should keep this up to date on the right day but I make no promises.

    Thanks for the support, and keep checking for more posts!!!

Awkward Silence

    Hi all. So just realised I had completely forgot to tell you when I was having my first official Jamboree meeting!!! I'm sooooo sorry. As you can probably guess, that's exactly what this weeks post is about. Lots of photos and information.

    So, on Saturday the 31st of May I had my first official Jamboree meeting. 9 participants from Buckinghamshire went, 8 from Berkshire and 2 from Hampshire and all four leaders attended (one from each county).
    The morning started rather awkwardly. This consisted of us standing in separate parts of the room not talking... at all.

    So after about 10 minutes of awkward silence we slowly started talking to each other in little groups. I talked to my friend Matthew and a girl called Olivia for about 15 minutes. Then we all sat down and the leaders introduced themselves.
    After the introductions we played the fruit salad game (for anyone who doesn't know this game. You sit in a circle and are labelled 3  different fruits. The person in the middle says a fruit and then the people labelled that fruit switch chairs). We then had to speak to the people we hadn't met before.
    My favourite game was the noise and action game. This is where you sit in a circle, and every person make a noise and a action based on their name. My name is Sian, which rhymes with farm. On a farm you get cows so my noise was a moo and my action was making horn on my head with my fingers. You then had to try and remember other people e.g. you did your noise then someone else's then they did theirs and someone else's.
    Just realised how complicated that sounds but its actually a really simple game aha.

    Next up was lunch, and as were all explorers lunch was up to us. We were split into groups of 5 and given £1 each. However we had to cater for 6 people (sneaky leaders) :-p Our group of 3 of us from Bucks and 2 from Berkshire. We worked well as a group and decided on bacon sarnies, baked beans, brownies and tangfastics. We were off to the local Tesco to buy our food.
    When we got back to the site the guys had the fire lit and ready to be cooked on. We cooked all the food quickly and had no complaints from our leader Mark. Because we had some left over bread, Rob decided to fry it; I have to admit it was delicious! (However not the healthiest thing ever with all the oil we used!).

    After lunch we tried ordering our leaders from youngest to oldest, with out offending anyone. We didn't get it right.

    We split into 3 groups and group 1, the group I was in, did origami first. I was very pleased with my crane that took be nearly 10 minutes! Yeah I'm not the best at origami.



    So after origami we played a non-violent version of sumo where the aim of the game is to push the other person off balance. Here are couple of videos:

    The final Japanese themed game we played is where you had to move maltesers from a chair at one end of the room to the other end using chopsticks. Luckily I already knew how to use chopsticks and the team I was in won a few of the rounds.

    After all the groups had finished the games we all sat down outside and took part in a quiz where we found that some of our knowledge about the Jamboree is very limited. The group I was in came second!!!

    We then went back inside to find out some more info on the Jamboree itself. Like the weather, where were going, how many people and son on.

    Finally, our some of our parents joined us for the final part of the day. The parents were given some information on the Jamboree.

    Another thing we were asked to do was bring a postcard of our local area and a photo of something important to us to use as a prompt during the introduction game. We then stuck the postcards on a window when we got to the Scout Hut. 

    Over all the day was great. I  met tones of fun and friendly people who I had never met before and didn't even know the lived near me. The best part was definitely Robs fried bread because it was delicious and I'd never had it before. The second most fun part was the quiz because we got to work in teams and find out information we didn't know about the Jamboree.
    I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of our group next month.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! I left out the most amazing point of the whole weekend! I got my necker!!! Wooooooo!!!

    So sorry this post has been a day late but it's really long and took me so long to type. Hope you like it and if you haven't already please check out my YouTube Channel where I put my 1000 views video because you guys are awesome!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg-tKiFKKQk