Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots of London

As we go along on our Jambo adventure, we are having a lot of bonding exercises. One of these was a day called 'London Adventure'. We didn't know much about it until we got there, but the long and short of it is: we had to go around London, using any mode of transport, apart from car, and take pictures of ourselves with certain landmarks, of which we had a list. They were things like Paddington bear, The Swedish Embassy (because we are going to Sweden!) and a red bus. There was about, oh, 25 of these 'destinations' and each of them were ranked with different points, depending on how hard they were to get to. I think that Paddington bear was only 10 points, whereas the Swedish Embassy was 25!

There was a lot of running around that day, a lot of missing of buses and trains (one team managed to leave half their team off the train, with the other half on!) and it was a lot of fun. We stopped for lunch half way through, and although we were all supposed to meet up at the same time, that didn't really work, with teams arriving half an hour after the one before, and someone getting pooped on by a bird in the process. Yes, it was VERY funny.

It was a lot of hard work, and it did involve a LOT of running, but I think we all got on really well, and learned a lot about London in the process. We saw loads of sites that I had never actually seen before, like the Globe Theatre. We went to the statue of Nelson Mandela and London Bridge. It was a great day, and I think that I made a lot of friendships a lot stronger. 

H