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Welcome to the newly designed Aktuellt - the official newsletter of the 22nd World Scout Jamboree. Here you can find all the news and updatesabout what is happening in preparation for the Jamboree and what will be happening in Sweden in 2011.
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News
Huge interest to participate in the World Scout Jamboree!The interest for participating in the World Scout Jamboree next year is enormous. This spring by the time the Early Bird registration due expired we had received an amazing 17 500 registrations. This is only the first due date and when the World Scout Jamboree starts next year there will be more than 30 000 scouts living together on the fields of Rinkaby, sharing the World Scout Jamboree and exploring the spirit of Simply Scouting.
It’s clear that it will be the experience of a lifetime and you won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet Scouts from 150 different countries.
The World Scout Jamboree tours the worldThis summer we have been on every continent promoting the World Scout Jamboree. Many of you have met us at camps or at the Re-gional Scout Conferences in Europe or Inter-America. Our tour will continue in the autumn and you can read all about it in our Simply Scouting Tour Blog at http://www.tour.simplyscouting.se. See you soon, or as we say in Swedish; På återseende!
Social media is buzzing about the World Scout JamboreeWe have just reached over 20 000 fans on our Facebook fan page and we have over 1 500 followers on Twitter. Social media is an incredible channel to stay tuned with us for the latest trivia or hottest discus-sions with others going to the Jamboree.
What do you want to hear on our social media channels, and on what social media’s do you think we should be represented? Send us a tweet, message or e-mail on [email protected].
In this editionNewsWhat’s your Simply Scouting?Getting to know the Swedes
Testing the Jamboree Patrol KitThe Quest Genesis
Welcome to the newly designed Aktuellt - the official newsletter of the 22nd World Scout Jamboree. Here you can find all the news and updates about what is happening in preparation for the Jamboree and what will be happening in Sweden in 2011.
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Getting to know the Swedes
In order to help you get to know the Swedes before you arrive at the
Jamboree, we asked two Swedish scouts some questions.
In this issue we asked them first “What is, in your mind, typical
Swedish food?” and then, “What is your favourite food?”
Sitha Björklund-Svensson, 14 years old
1, I think that a lot of people would say meatballs, sauce and boiled
potatoes, but I think that food like pea soup, herring and pancakes
are also very Swedish. Holiday food like Christmas foods, plain fare
and Easter foods are very Swedish as well. And don’t forget the
fika*! (*A between-meals sit down snack often had with coffee.)
2, I like nearly all kinds of food, Asian, south American, Mediter-
ranean and so on. But of course also Swedish plain fare. Typical
Swedish meals I like are blood sausage, mashed turnips, pork knee,
stuffed cabbage rolls, crayfish and ostkaka*. *A pudding made from
milk, rennet and almonds. We have plain fare quite a lot at home,
but the one who makes the best plain fare is my grandmother, as
nothing beats her macaroni pudding.
Elsa Regnell, 14 years old
1, Plain fare with potatoes, root vegetables and stuff like that. Brown
sauce, jams and mushrooms.
2, Tortillas and tacos, no doubt.
What’s your Simply Scouting? In the last issue of Aktuellt we asked you, our readers, what Simply Scouting is to you. We got a lot of responses from you, and we’re re-ally impressed with your descriptions of Simply Scouting. Here are some of the explanations that were sent in, and the authors can look forward to finding their very own World Scout Jamboree Spork in their mailbox soon.
Thank you for all your great replies!
“’Simply Scouting’ is a way of life. It is a way, which allows you to meet magnificent people, with whom you can exchange your ideas and opinions, and of course make friends. It is also a way of develop-ing yourself, gaining independence, as well as learning to cooperate with others. Most of all, it is fun. Such a huge amount fun, that it is unimaginable to anyone who has never encountered Simply Scout-ing before.”
Kazik
“‘Simply Scouting,’ to me, means being in the outdoors, from waking up in a tent, to huddled round a camp-fire with your ‘second family’ singing classic camp-fire songs such as ‘Ging Gang Gooli.’ These are the times where you think what a great time you have in Scouting.”
Craig Ellis
“I recently was going through some records from the last world jam-boree at Chelmsford and found the following message I sent to a fellow scout 2 years after returning from the UK. I think it sums up what the experience of a world jamboree was for me.‘Attending the World Jamboree and experiencing the fellowship with other leaders I worked with was a fantastic experience but the most thrilling thing was to see the youth members from all parts of the world mixing, making friends and having fun together. As one of two Kiwi’s on the staff of the Mangrove sub-camp I made some great friends who I still communicate with on a regular basis. With the 2nd anniversary soon upon us I have received e-mails from ten of those old ‘mangrovians’ in the last week from places as far flung as the UK, Taiwan, the Phillippines, Egypt, the US and Wellington. If you get the chance, go - its life changing.’”
Phil Marsden, New Zealand
In this editionNewsWhat’s your Simply Scouting?Getting to know the Swedes
Testing the Jamboree Patrol KitThe Quest Genesis
www.worldscoutjamboree.se
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The Sub Camp Infrastructure Block recently tested the Patrol Kit to ensure that all equipment is of the right quality. All cooking gear has been tested in various weather conditions to make sure that, for example, the stoves can boil water fast enough even when it’s raining. The dining shelters have also been set up and tested for several days to expose it to different types of weather so they don’t fly away when the wind blows and can protect the scouts against rain and sun.
The Patrol Kit was also demonstrated for all Contingents at the Head of Contingent’s Visit in June with very good response. However, some had a hard time to identify the Nordic Cheese Slicer. The Cheese Slicer was invented in Norway in 1925 and almost every Nordic household have one but they’re pretty unusual outside Scandinavia. At the World Scout Jamboree, you can put this to your list of new experiences as well.
When Scouts from all over the world come for the World Scout Jamboree with their heavy backpacks many of them will be happy to know that they don’t have to worry about carrying all their cooking gear. All thanks to the Sub Camp Infrastructure Block each patrol will find that their sub camp is not empty when they arrive. There will already be a box containing their Patrol Kit with all you need for your everyday sub camp cooking and living, like a gas stove, pots, bowls and a dish-brush as well as a table, benches and a dining shelter. If you need more items for preparation of, for example, vegetarian, Muslim or kosher food, there will be possibilities to supplement these.
Everything is, of course, planned with Simply Scouting in mind. That’s why instead of each patrol getting their own small dining shelter like on previous jamborees, four patrols will share one big shelter which makes cooking and eating a natural meeting opportunity. Meeting is, as you probably know by now, one of our key concepts within Simply Scouting.
In this editionNewsWhat’s your Simply Scouting?Getting to know the Swedes
Testing the Jamboree Patrol KitThe Quest Genesis
Testing the Jamboree Patrol Kit
www.worldscoutjamboree.se
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An Introduction to one of the worlds.
Medieval World
As the king lost his valuable gems for the crown, he also
lost control of the kingdom. Inside the powerful walls of the
castle the troubles grew in complexity and number. If the
gems were to be lost forever, then the kingdom would be
lost too.
Challenging the minds of the participants with co-operative
problem solving, obstacles, enlightening as well as uplifting
activities, sum up the most basic principle in the ideals of
scouting, helping each other while having fun.
Many say that ‘only through hardship is the mind and spirit
evolved’. BP said ‘if it isn’t fun, it isn’t scouting’. We say ‘it
should be a challenge’ as long as you have your friends to
rely on and support, all obstacles will overcome. To overcome
with joy, that’s simply scouting.
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“The gods were bored and decided to go on a Quest and create worlds; they would make their own meeting place and playground.
On the first day we created a team of many countries. We reviewed and restructured and arrived with 4 worlds.
On the second day we created the globe and the sea. The sea is the flow of patrols that will embark on their voyage… or Quest. The world manages the people and celebrates their involvement.
On the third day the mountains rose from the sea. In the mountains there were dark caves with mazes and challenges where we found physical, intellectual and social activities for patrols. This we called Cave world.
On the fourth day we created land for the Vikings after they had travelled the sea. The Vikings evolved a social patrol based meeting area with some physical challenges and shared their brains to complete the world. This we called Viking world.
On the fifth day we found ourselves in Medieval times. The patrols were met with intellectual problem solving tasks which developed physical and leadership skills. This we called Medieval world.
On the sixth day we decided that life should be a challenge. The individual participants should have a big energy release with challenges based on ability and on reviewing patrol support. This we called Challenge world.
And on the seventh day we knew we needed to reflect and compare our different experiences and see how our worlds have developed. We felt that the globe, sea and worlds should be celebrated and so we created the central world where people could come to play, meet and keep on celebrating.”
In this editionNewsWhat’s your Simply Scouting?Getting to know the Swedes
Testing the Jamboree Patrol KitThe Quest Genesis
QUEST is one of the 5 Module Activities being planned for the World Scout Jamboree 2011. The role of the Quest team is to provide Jamboree Activities that challenge the participating scouts physically, intellectually and socially.
The Quest Genesis.
