We woke up to find that the weather was now much nicer and sunnier and that most of the muddy paths had already dried up.
Alan's patrol cooked breakfast and after we'd washed up we went down to our Module activity for the day - "Global Development Village" (GDV).
Rosie went to the leaders meeting as there was one every morning and the leaders had decided to take it in turns so we went with Mike as our elected leader.
There we different sections of GDV and we decided to to the 'Health' part. We were assigned to a IST from Costa Rica who spent most of the time teaching us songs. We also played lots of games like 'vampires and angles'. The actual activity was planning how you'd spend what little money you had on if you lived in a third world country (education etc...).
We then went and met up with Rosie and the other patrols for lunch were we had a water fight. We all got massively soaked - especially Rosie who we all teamed up against.
In the afternoon, we went back to GDV and this time we did the 'environment' part. Our group for this was huge, so to start with we all went in a big circle and told everyone our names and nationalities. We then played a game where anyone could suggest doing something and them everyone had to do it. For instance, someone would say - "lets all spin in a circle" - and then everyone would. We then went into the tent which was absolutely boiling. Inside, we did an activity where, we had to move to a different corner of the tent depending on our view of the environment, for example, we were asked "what is the most important factor in saving the environment?, New technology, Laws, Money or other." After that, we were split into four groups and each given a different task. My group had to make a set of weighing scales our of some wood and lashing. After we'd done it, a bossy German leader re-did it several times and almost broke it because apparently we'd done it wrong although the people running the activity said we'd done it right. One of the other groups had to paint a picture of how the world will look in several years time if we do nothing about the environment and it looked like doomsday. The other two groups made good things (one group), and bad things (the other group), that we do to the environment which we then weighed in the scales - before very long, the scales just broke.
After that we were given our bead for GDV and I took Shianne to the New England Americans (she'd heart her foot and was on crutches so couldn't go on her own). After she'd invited them to dinner and they'd said they were going somewhere else she chatted to them for ages so when we finally got back to the campsite Rosie was a bit annoyed with us.
After that we had dinner which for ones, there was lots of, and I got my phone off Nick was was strangely charged, unlike when I gave it to Simon.
We then chatted for quite a while and then I went back to the campsite and chatted there for a before packing stuff for camp in camp the next morning and then I signing in and went to bed.
Kathryn, our unit leader who sadly was unable to come to the Jamboree, sent an email round every day about what our unit had been doing from what Kev and other leaders/IST had texted her. You can find what she said about this day below:
"Sunday on the WSJ site saw the sun shining for the whole day at last, it was lovely and warm and everyone was very happy to be camping in the sun shine and have time to dry out a little.
The unit went to another module activity, the Global Activity Village, this area is dedicated to teaching the Scouts about Global issues including peace, health, human rights, environment and sustainabiltiy, entrepreneurship and Information and Communication. The activities at the GDV are developed and run by experts in their field from all over the world from people working with alcohol problems amongst youth in Sweden to people working with flooding in Pakistan. The aim is to give knowledge and inspire the young people to create a better World.
The rest of the day was free for them to go and visit new friends or just to wander around and enjoy all the different activities on offer. They also had to get their overnight day sacks packed and the patrols organised so that they were all ready for the camp within a camp in the morning.
On site the Kind and Queen of Sweden visited the WSJ, the King of Sweden is very supportive of the Scout movement as he has been a Scout since he was very young, they also went to visit one of the camp within a camp's to see how all the units were getting on.
Best wishes
Kathryn
WSJ Bristol"
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