For the UK contingent, there was an option to do different tours of Iceland after the Moot had finished. I chose to go on a two-day tour called ‘Inside Iceland’. On the tour, I was with other UK Scouts. We left the
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On the site, there are 5 different villages: Yggdrasill (faith and belief), Eagle (taking risks), Dragon (arts and innovation), Giant (health), and Bull (environment and global warming). This morning, we had Dragon, although with the hecticness of leaving camp, we didn’t actually
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On the site, there are 5 different villages: Yggdrasill (faith and belief), Eagle (taking risks), Dragon (arts and innovation), Giant (health), and Bull (environment and global warming). This morning, our tribe had Bull. For this, I went for a walk to the
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Our patrol was one of the patrols on breakfast duties, so we got up a little earlier than everyone else to prepare and cook. On the site, there are 5 different villages: Yggdrasill (faith and belief), Eagle (taking risks), Dragon (arts and
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We woke up today to attend ‘Wake Up Shake Up’, which was essentially just a performance of traditional dances from different countries. We then had the opportunity to go around program villages, which included a selection of games and activities — most
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Today, we had a very well-welcomed lie-in until 9:30. It was a very cold night, but it wasn’t a problem as the Australian contingent leader needed a tent for the night, so he shared my ‘two-man’ tent with me. We had a
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I was woken up just before 6:00 this morning by a lot of shouting and panic… It turns out that our mess tent was in the middle of blowing away! We managed to grab the tent before it caused any damage, and
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We were once again women up at the delightful time of 6:30 for breakfast — which was, again, porridge! Our patrol weren’t due to leave for our first activity until 9:45 so we were on clean-up duty. A fun fact: where we’re
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Today was the day of our full-day hike, which was unfortunately named Leggjarbrjotur (which means broken legs in English). Our patrol was in charge of preparing the sandwich fillings, but I slept through my alarm so I missed getting up for this!
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We were woken up at the delightful time of 6:00 (I didn’t realise that they still made this time of the morning) to get breakfast and packed ready to go to the opening ceremony, followed straight away by the expedition centres. We
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