This was our first proper camp. It was at Well end, a camp site I had been to a couple of times. It was from the 21st to the 23rd of May, and it was an absolutely baking hot weekend. We had only just met each other, but there was a really good atmosphere around. We arrived, got together in groups and started putting up the tents. This was, well, interesting, and mixed with chatting and mucking about and playing rugby. Well, I call it rugby, it was more 'tackle whoever had the ball'. Nothing very sophisticated, but good fun all the same.
Once the tents were up, we got together and were put into patrols. We swap around these patrols every time we started a new activity so that we got the know everyone. We had to make the majority of our meals, and one consisted of making an oven out of a cardboard box and some tin foil, then putting a pizza (which we had also made) inside. Its was surprisingly delicious. The evenings were spent round the camp fire, chatting and laughing until it was time for bed.
On Saturday we started on a project. We were told that we had to have a gateway to put at the front of our small site on the actual Jamboree. We spent the first part of the day designing them with skewers and bits of thread, and then moved onto the big stuff. We worked long and hard on our massive pioneering gates, often having to have a break from what was the increasingly roasting day. But finally, we were done. I think its safe to say that all of the groups were very pleased with their 'creations'.
As you can see, ours had a VERY awesome revolving... thing. Which, I guess, didn't really work, unless you were a three foot high dwarf. But we were proud all the same. We also found out that one of them could be collapsed, and then put back up again, like a piece of Ikea furniture. This only came about because my friend Adam ran into one of the poles in the dark. Very funny, and rather scary at the same time!
Another one of the awesome, if not a little strange things we did was make deep fried jam sandwiches. Which, I know, sound horrid. But just wait. They were exactly what they sound like, jam sandwiches dipped in batter and then fried. And they were amazing! There is nothing more satisfying sitting around with your friends on a very hot summers day, eating deep fried jam sandwiches with a spork. If you never have, I seriously recommend it.
Now, Sporks. Possibly the worlds greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, scrap that, they are BETTER than sliced bread. There is nothing to describe the awesomeness of a spork. A religion was born from that camp called sporkism, to celebrate sporks. And so was the counter religion Anti-sporkism. But we wont go into that. One day i will make a post with the completed list of 'uses for sporks'.
But until then, that's all I have to say.
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