With lots of travelling ahead of us, we boarded a coach for the 1.5 hour journey to Narita Airport, where we boarded our first Emirates flight to Dubai. It lasted for almost 11 hours, but it went very quickly as I slept
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After very little sleep (and possibly a lot of grumpy words), I went to meet the rest of my patrol (Coquet patrol) so that we could leave for Tokyo Skytree. Once we got to Skytree, it was huge; I was so surprised
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The Bullet Train arrived in Tokyo and we were amazed at how busy and grand everything was in the station. We made a short walk to a local car park where we got a bus that took us to the National Youth
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After a lovely night’s sleep in a tent, most of the unit were very tired this morning as a lot of people opted to sleep under the stars for a night. We spent the morning packing up the last tents and bags
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Today’s the day we have to pack up camp… My patrol (Coquet patrol) woke up early to make breakfast: ham and scrambled egg. We spent the entire morning packing up equipment, tents and bags ready for them to be transported home. I
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Today, it was Joss’ birthday, so I woke up (slightly) early and me and Gavin made Joss some egg and bacon sandwiches. Today’s activity was supposed to be an 8km nature walk, but very few people actually wanted to do it so
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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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