a weirdo's trip to meet more weirdos
Well I've been on holidays. This year that meant paying a small fortune to go working in hylands park near chelmsford in Essex.
I flew Duesseldorf - Stansted on the (VERY early) morning of the 21st of July. My plane took off at 6:40 am german time and arrived in Stansted around 7 am british time... which meant that I had claimed my luggage and gotten onto a train to Walthamstowe by 7:30 am. Stupidly enough pir had told me to give him a call, whenever I knew when I'd arrive at Walthamstowe although he knew the arrival time of my flight's arrival... So i gave him a call woke him up and he even got himself out of bed and managed to be in walthamstowe before I was! Wow! (To be honest: I don't know if I'd have managed...)
Well, we went straight back to bed when we arrived at his house.
The next two days were spent painting his hall, going to a birthday party of a couple of ppl I had never met before but who gave me a very warm welcome and going out to see transformers.
On the 23rd I moved on to the site of the 21st World Scout Jamboree. If you'r not interested just skip this part, but you don't know, on how much you miss out. Well, for those who haven't yet heard or read about it: the scouting movement has its 100th anniversary this year and its founder would have turned 150 in february 2007. As the scouting movement originates in the UK, the whole affair was quite a big deal.
The first days until the 30th were 12 to 14 hour workdays to finish the building phase on site, but I was able to sneak away on the 28th to make a late and somewhat odd appaerance at pir's housewarming-/birthdayparty.
After that I had 3 days off. On the first of August we celebrated our "true" centenary (that was the 1st day of the camp that's commonly seen as the official testrun/start of the scouting movement. On the 2nd my parents came over as day visitors and we spent a nice day together.
I had a great time at the jamboree with a lot of unique experiences (like lying underneath a toilet trailer fixing waste water pipes ;-) no honestly: it was great). I met a lot of people from a lot of different countries. A bit overwhelming if you've never done anything of vaguely this size before because it's just not something that you really can imagine. You could sit down in the shade of a tree (well, if you had the time) and watch the world go by in the truest sense of the words.
More might follow in a new post when and if it comes to my mind.
I flew Duesseldorf - Stansted on the (VERY early) morning of the 21st of July. My plane took off at 6:40 am german time and arrived in Stansted around 7 am british time... which meant that I had claimed my luggage and gotten onto a train to Walthamstowe by 7:30 am. Stupidly enough pir had told me to give him a call, whenever I knew when I'd arrive at Walthamstowe although he knew the arrival time of my flight's arrival... So i gave him a call woke him up and he even got himself out of bed and managed to be in walthamstowe before I was! Wow! (To be honest: I don't know if I'd have managed...)
Well, we went straight back to bed when we arrived at his house.
The next two days were spent painting his hall, going to a birthday party of a couple of ppl I had never met before but who gave me a very warm welcome and going out to see transformers.
On the 23rd I moved on to the site of the 21st World Scout Jamboree. If you'r not interested just skip this part, but you don't know, on how much you miss out. Well, for those who haven't yet heard or read about it: the scouting movement has its 100th anniversary this year and its founder would have turned 150 in february 2007. As the scouting movement originates in the UK, the whole affair was quite a big deal.
The first days until the 30th were 12 to 14 hour workdays to finish the building phase on site, but I was able to sneak away on the 28th to make a late and somewhat odd appaerance at pir's housewarming-/birthdayparty.
After that I had 3 days off. On the first of August we celebrated our "true" centenary (that was the 1st day of the camp that's commonly seen as the official testrun/start of the scouting movement. On the 2nd my parents came over as day visitors and we spent a nice day together.
I had a great time at the jamboree with a lot of unique experiences (like lying underneath a toilet trailer fixing waste water pipes ;-) no honestly: it was great). I met a lot of people from a lot of different countries. A bit overwhelming if you've never done anything of vaguely this size before because it's just not something that you really can imagine. You could sit down in the shade of a tree (well, if you had the time) and watch the world go by in the truest sense of the words.
More might follow in a new post when and if it comes to my mind.