Day 9 — a lie in! We had breakfast at the late time of 7:30, and headed to the science activities for a 9:00 start. Me and Sophie went slightly early and we were first in the queue for the sandblasting activity;
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My patrol was on duty today (we have to cook the meals and upkeep the site) so we were up at the relatively late time of 5:30. Breakfast was delicious — bacon salad!! Today were were scheduled to take part in the
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A relatively early start again today (6:00 breakfast) in order to get on a bus for 7:30; the organisers messed up slightly and we didn’t actually leave until around 8:30. At around 8:00 on the bus I realised that I’d forgotten my
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“Day 6 on the Jamboree; Adam stands up and asks what everyone wants written in the blog…” Today it has been Josh’s birthday, so me, Owen and Catterson (Emily C) made Josh a banner out of old cardboard boxes that said “Happy
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The day started pre-sunrise (again) so that we left enough time to leave at 6:30 for Hiroshima on 2.5 hour bus journey. We had smoked egg for breakfast with, believe it or not, some bread! We arrived at Hiroshima a little after
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We woke up in the middle of the night (it was still dark!) at around 4:15 to go and retrieve breakfast and lunch for the day. We had bacon sandwiches! Mmm… After breakfast, we then got ready to leave on a coach
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In the morning, we split up into patrols and went exploring around the site; it was also Hayden’s birthday. Aln patrol played some Nordic games; Coquet went to the North end of the site (near the dome) and had a look around
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We woke up at around 6:30 and I managed to sort out my bag and pile my clothes into a corner to make it easier to change over the next 9 days. Breakfast was omelette and then me and Graham went to
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We arrived at the site at around 16:00 and we made the (relatively) short walk to our campsite. It took us about 3 or 4 hours to setup our campsite. Whilst putting up the tents, a Japanese postman arrived with a postcard
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Before boarding the bus to Yamaguchi, I had the opportunity to speak with some Italian Scouts and they were all very friendly and spoke very good English. I swapped business cards with a few of them. Once we were on the bus,
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