22nd World Scout Jamboree Sweden.

After a thrilling couple of days in Cophenagen we set off for the adventure we had all been working so hard for. Sat on the coach watching the wonderful Swedish country side pass we eventually made it to the jamboree. Carrying our bags to our pitch wasn't the easiest of tasks as the were bit heavy and inconvenient to carry.

We made it, our home for the next two weeks. after setting up camp and already getting to grips of what we have already achieved we made our site more homely. For our camp gate we tried to make the tyne bridge as it was something that represents our area of where we come from.

The jamboree site itself was massive. you only had to walk less than 50 meters to come into contact with so many different cultures from every corner of the world. I think the main stand out for me of the jamboree would have to be the people the fact that there were 40,000 scouts from over 146 different countries on site and i think that is something within itself.

There were 3 main ceremonies at the jamboree. The open ceremony was a good way of seeing how many different countries there were talking part in this once in a life time opportunity. They also played the official jamboree song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5Vn84cjw0&feature=related The open ceremony was a good way to start the jamboree. The second ceremony was on cultural day. Cultural day was a day where everyone on the jamboree site dressed in the traditional cultural dress from there county.

The activities at the jamboree were more of feelings and finding yourself which as good because you got to find what other people thought. One of my favourite activity at the jamboree would have to be quest. Quest was more of a team exercise activity and the favourite part of the quest activity was the assault course. Another one of my favourite activities was camp in camp. on camp in camp we spent the night of the jamboree site and spent it with a Swedish scout group on one of the 80 sites they had and joined in with there camp to see how the swedes camped.

The final ceromony was the closing one. Which sadly brought our adventure of a lifetime to a end. That night was a good send of though as there was great music performed by europe and other bands from Sweden and Belguim. There was also the king of Sweden (who is awesome) saying some words about scouts and the jamboree and also the hand over to the next jamboree which will be help in Japan in 2015.