What's up Roverway 4

What’s up

4th issue

Instructions for SaturdayTaking down the camp and depar-ture on Saturday 28.7.

• Please, clean your camp site and your tribe’sareaquicklyandefficiently.

• Participate all together to take downthe camp, instructed by the leaders.

• Move in time to the departure areawith your contigent, following ordersofyourHeadfromContingent.

On Monday morning, a District Camp ofover 4000 scouts will begin here. Let’s leavethecampsitefortheminbettercon-ditionthanitwaswhenwearrived.

Event book will be pub-lished after the event!We are gathering the memories mostly in photos and put them together as an event book.

Thebookwillbepublishedsoonaftertheevent. Youwill find the information, howto order the book, in the Roverway 2012 website.

Day full of cultures and loveTo celebrate Loverway, dinner was prepared on a large grillonThatWay.Intheafternoon,thereweremanyac-tivitiesandshows,drumming,humanpyramids,whip-ping,afire-eaterandabullrun.Actually,thebullswerenot real, but people in costumes and they made the crowd run away along the way as in the tradional Pam-plona bull run.

Contingents had their own stands to tell about theircountryandtoletpeopletastetheirlocalfoodsuchasItaliancheeseandHungarianpastrybakedonagrill.

ThePartyforLovetookplaceaththeAmfiintheeve-ning.ItstartedwiththebandplayingAllMyLovingandeverybody singing together. Videos on the big screen showedhowparticipantshadbeen interviewedabouttheir path experiences, expectations of Roverway andthoughts about friendship. Roverway Representativesfromdifferentcountriesweredancingonthestageandpeople in theaudiencewerepartying, too.Ahugginggame made all the Rovers, Rangers and ISTs to hug quickly each other during one song, so that everyone receiveddozensofhugs.

Themostspectacularpartofeveningwastheballoons.Everybody wrote a cute message on a paper and put it inaballoonandfilled theballoon.Theballoonswerethrown in the air and they were bouncing over every-body’s hands. When the song ended, everyone picked up the nearest balloon and had the chance to read the message in the balloon. The band continued playingand the crowd danced till late. Thanks for everybodywhodidaLoverdayrandomactofkindnessbyhelpingin cleaning the area.

Friends will be friends.

Did you get new friends in Rover-way?

Ihavemetalotofnewpeopleinmytribeand anywhere in the camp. I’m going to visitanoldfriendinSwitzerlandandI’mplanningtomeettherealsosomeoftheSwissfrommytribe.

Janneke Rutten, Holland

People are so open here in the camp that you can easily start talking about anything withanybody intheactivitiesorwaitinglines.IcouldmeetpeopleofmytribeifIwouldgotoHollandorSwitzerland.

Janez Košir, Slovenia

OurFinnishpatrolmembersarefromdif-ferentcornersofthecountry.Wedidtheplanning without seeing each others and thenwemetinRovaniemifortheOpen-ing Ceremony. It is interesting to noticehowscoutinghabitsmayvaryalsoinsidethe country. There are people from dif-ferentcountriesinourtribeandwehavehadinterestingandprofounddiscussionswith them in English. Unfortunately wedon’t speak any Spanish or Italian.

Siiri Kihlström and Riitu Kerola, Finland

This is my first time in Europe.We aregoing to visit Sweden and Denmark right after the camp. Roverway is a very freecamp compared to our camps that have many details. I have met many new peo-ple in my tribe. Estonians are very nice and everybody else have been nice too. I would like to come back to Europe later and see also Western Europe and South-ern Europe.

Yi-Ju Chung, Taiwan

Question of the way