World Scout Jamboree - Big Picture

So many creative writings, fantastic thoughts, memorable comments about the jamboree, but still the big picture left where we reflect, express about the jamboree what we like, what wasn't good

After so many meetings in the Kharadar J.k, Sindh Boy Scouts Headquarter and briefing by many experts, 32 people based Sindh contingent was ready to participate in the 22nd World Scout Jambroee which would held in the Rinkby, Kristianstad Sweden.

The last meeting was held in the Sindh Boy Scouts Headquarter new Auditorium, on the day of Departure of the contingent, My some friends and I were on the next day.

On the departure we reached the Airport at 2:30 AM where we found some other scouts like us waiting for the World scout Jamboree,

at Jinnah International Airport, Pakistan Christian Scouts, Ismaili District Boy Scouts, Sindh Boy Scouts all were there for the jamboree, we were going through the gulf Air Via Bahrain while others will reach there directly via Lahore

We all gathered and go into the lobby where our documents were checked. Our Baggage was passed and we gone for consecutive 3 Full Proof Security checks with such a great support by the natives, we reached in the waiting lounge where we have to wait for the Airbus to the Manama, Bahrain.

in the Bahrain there was a transit stay for 18 hours for which the Gulf Air has accompanied us a 4-Star Hotel Al-Safir

after the long long stay, now it was time to Again do the journey. Now it was the Boeing who was flying to Kobenhavn/Copenhagen Denmark. Our Contingent friends were in Denmark now to recieve us. We reached the Copenhagen Airport but was unable to see anyone of them. now with our leader or some without managed to go for sweden with the transport of the World Scout Jamboree Members. We stood in the long line, and when we were near to our turn, the registrar told that its only for IST member participants have to wait..

now what to do was the most toughest question

helpless in a new world, don't know the streets don't know the people don't know anybody....

but someone was there to know us, help us support us... Scout Brothers, Scout Movement..

World Scout Jamboree Team led us to the Home Hospitality where we've to live until the participants registration is on...

there we managed to contact our rest of the contingent, who came to us and we spend the night with them

Now it was the jamboree for which the 40,060 Scouts from 139 Countries came to one place under one theme "Simply Scouting"

Four Towns
Summer
Winter
Autumn
Spring

The participants from all over the world was divided into 3 Towns - i.e. Summer, Winter and Autumn while the town spring was for the IST's

Dream

2300 Hours, searching for light in the dark forest, journey from old age to the birth of a child, a experience that remembered us our History to Destination in just 2 hours which was quite unusal but was too interesting...

At the end of summer town, some IST's with some Glowing Sticks waving, a series of gas Lights beside them were desperately waiting for some participants to come to them, there was a long run way which we have to cross for the next instruction from there we would go to our first destination, which was the old age.

a Room almost 10 Feet Wide and about 25-30 Meter long, full of smoke, lightening, as we feel the grave yard, the sad and the horror music on the tape, it was just to make us feel the death scene, the moment was so horrifying, excited, even at that time we were unable to think that what is happening or what will happen after some time? whats the next destination, we were out of our mind just going in a direction,nothing could be seen easily nor it was easy to breathe, nothing much was visible, like all the things faded away.. such a unspoken wonderful experience.. continuing Death Scene it was the adulthood, in which we have to feel as the experienced people do - I would call them experience because they are not so old enough, they just got the experience in whole such life - the sensing in their way, the sight with the blurred glasses, the sound of some animals with a non clearly audible tape recorder and much more..

In addition to that it was now the Youth Age in which we were shown world some great personalities including their life history, as some of them were Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and many more... :) their photos was stuck on the wooden board and we have to identify them and read about them with photos of them, we are meant to inspire, from their work, their speciality and to be one of like them to do something in life

Now we would near age of 24 or 25 where usually a person makes his family his life, as we were told to make a person draw him that we thinks as an ideal...

this was a boring one but the next one in the teenage, and childhood was to play with toys bigger to smaller, trickiest to funniest, challenging to tricky all the things made us remember our early life where we used to play with friends, have fun tease each other throw things on each other just not that enough, we fights cry help innovate, support love care each other.

with the phase our journey soon to end... but it was just a beginning to the new sight for the world

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