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  • Greg Clayton
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South Pacific Solo Travel

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    Setting Up With the Events Team

    30. desember 2023, New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    This morning I met my manager who said there wasn't anything for me to do on 'inflatable world' today - my original job. However, she invited me to go and help the events team set up for the opening ceremony, so I happily obliged! I helped set up the lighting, sound, perimeters and fine tuning the final touches of the ceremony.Les mer

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    Jamboree Uniform and ID

    30. desember 2023, New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    This afternoon I was finally able to collect my Jamboree uniform and ID! Although when I turned up they suddenly had two IDs for me so I feel as if my things were ready all along.

    The green necker is the event necker and then the events team gifted me one of their neckers and woggles. I was also told by my boss that I could join the events team for the entire event if I wished so I snapped her hand off! So tomorrow I'll be helping prepare for a 4 hour New Year's Eve party from 8pm - midnight!Les mer

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    Portal-oo & Golf Buggy

    31. desember 2023, New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    This morning I've helped deliver the portal-oo from the opening ceremony. The kids have all been tasked to find it and have their picture taken with it, we were stopped a good few times just on the delivery route!

    I also had the chance to drive the golf buggy around site putting equipment out!    Les mer

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    Activity Day 1

    31. desember 2023, New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 25 °C

    Today's main task was to re-configure the event hangar to a suitable format for the NYE party. This involved having to move all of the centre wires from the floor into the roof, which I was delighted with as it meant I could go onto the overhead runway!

    Other small tasks in the day included helping set up for a church service and supervising the 'village green'.

    I have also observed and been told that in New Zealand, badge trading is a massive deal. Each Troop must bring at least 500 of their own custom made badges to the event which their kids will trade with other kids. I've already been given 6/7 different badges without even really doing much. This whole point was emphasised when it was absolutely teeming down with rain, yet there was a huge group of kids stood getting soaked for ages whilst trading badges.    Les mer

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    NYE Party

    1. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    We entered 2024 with a 3.5 hour party for every child and adult on camp! The team pulled off an amazing night of music and dance and all the kids loved it. We had no complaints at all which apparently is very rare! I learnt how to operate the lights, smoke machines and sparklers on the job but got the hang of it in the end. A night to remember!Les mer

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    NYD

    1. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    New Year's Day was a day off for all the activity bases and we didn't have a show in the evening so we had an opportunity to have a stroll around camp. One of the few things open was our village green, which was especially busy since today was an open day with another fee thousand parents, siblings and younger Scouts paying a visit to the Jamboree.Les mer

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    Special Tea

    2. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ 🌙 15 °C

    Once the pavilion had cleared out the events team dragged some bean bags inside. First of all we watched the news report on the Jamboree (4th story on the 6 o'clock news on Channel 1!) and then enjoyed a sing along to the Greatest Showman with a few drinks decanted into mugs.Les mer

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    Mascot Stealing

    3. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    So a big thing at these Jamboree's are mascots. Each team / Troop has its own mascots and the adult / older troops have a habit of stealing mascots from each other. There are many rules involved which I still don't understand.

    Regardless, today we went on a mission to steal the Rovers (aged 18-25) mascots from their base at Challenge Valley. This was a success and in the afternoon we took one of the karts up to the base at the far end of site to see what was going on and take pictures of the mascots.

    In the evening when the Rovers had gone for a night on the town we snook into their challenge valley base (took the gate off its hinges) and snapped the mascots having some fun.    Les mer

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    Gangshow

    3. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Tonight on the stage was the gangshow! I forgot to take any other pictures but there were a variety of groups from New Zealand doing skits on stage, including a rendition of '12 days of Scout camp' from which the '5 bars of soap' line drew roars of approval from the crowd everytime.Les mer

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    International Night

    4. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Tonight on stage was international night! I'd done some setup in the day to prearrange the lighting colours for each country, so I'm definitely making progress!

    We had performances from New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Cook Islands and a few others. They were all super impressive and it was a great night in a packed pavilion!Les mer

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    Ice Block Dispensing!

    4. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    This evening I drove 4 of us around part of camp in a buggy giving out 'ice blocks' (lolly ices) to many of the kids. We gave out over 1,000 'ice blocks' in around 15 minutes and had to bring the buggy to a complete standstill twice through being absolutely swamped! 15 minutes of madness that will live in the memory for a long time!Les mer

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    A Day on Camp

    5. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Today was a quiet day for the events team so I spent much of the day milling around our village green, exploring camp and giving out our famous Portaloo badges, the kids reactions to being given them were amazing! We then had to pack up our village green and shown Moana on the big screen inside which was exceptionally well attended!Les mer

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    Closing Ceremony

    6. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Tonight was the Jamboree closing ceremony! We had around 20 minutes of formalities and 40 minutes of disco! Didn't take any pictures myself so have stolen these off the Facebook page.

    After the closing ceremony a few of us went and visited a few different troop sites to see what was going on and finished the night in the leaders retreat with an ice cream! Everyone was too tired to even have a drink so we went to bed.Les mer

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    Stage Pack Up

    7. januar 2024, New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Today we spent the full day packing away our glorious stage! We worked through till 5:30 and decided to call it a day with the job almost done.

    A sale also started backstage which included absolute bargain deals on all sorts of goods including bikes, tents, stretchers and bean bags.Les mer

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