When we arrived on site on Saturday morning we dumped out kit in the scout hut and may the greetings begin. The were people hugging everywhere as we hadn't seen each other in what? 7 weeks!!! After a hello from the leaders, those who had arrived sat around a table and met a special visitor who came to answer some of our questions about Japan and to teach us some need to know Japanese such as arigatou gozaimasu (thank you).
Once everyone had arrived we spoke to our visitor some more and tried some call and response with him. We then said goodbye, Sayōnara, to him and started to play some games to get to know each other again. Meanwhile I prepared our 'Guess where the BeKeHaBu is' game for the school fete stall we would be running. We were then split into our patrols. These would be very similar to the patrols we will be in when we go to Japan next year. Throughout the weekend we did many activities in our patrols to grow closer together. We split into groups, some people cooking, some people putting up Christmas decorations, everyone took a turn making their own place-mat (with their name in Japanese) and 8 people (2 from each patrol) going to the school fete.
At the fete we set up our stall. We had two game:
- Wine, water and Shloer.
- Guess where the BeKeHaBu is
- We also attempted to sell some badges.
We ran the stall to create some more unit funds to spend in Japan. It also means we could potentially buy more equipment for the unit. We had lots of fun running the stalls and a fair few people came to visit us. We also met some people from Unit 7 who were also fundraising there. I even managed to organise a swap with one of them! Yay!
