JOTA - JOTI

3rd week of the October is always fun...

Organized by World Organization of Scout Movement, Jota - Joti is a wonderful event which connect the world through media. It means Jamboree On The Air (Jota), Jamboree on The Internet (Joti). Joti is a Unique Event in which everyone in the world can participate just you need a Internet Connection, Web Browser, a Chatting Software Such as mIRC, and a Email.

I really love this event its a nice event to interact with the people, every year new people with valuable experiences come here to meet new people, interact with them and to share with them. Every year there is some themes and some activities which you can do while sitting a long distance. This year the theme is Unity, Natural Disaster.

I met some Swedish Cub Scouts which were 11 12 years old, who were the one of the camp in camp host in the World Scout Jamboree.. the asked me language of Pakistan and the names. One of them visited the Thailand he find the new land so much interesting and different from their culture. :)

Are We Living in a Women Dominant Society?

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Society has always objected towards the man's approach in which biased words were used like chairman, sportsman, freshman and much more which was now being replaced by the more neutral ones which says chairperson, sports person and so on but nowadays the people should keep in view that instead of men, this social environment is being converted into Women Supremacy, through targeting men they are approaching towards a Ladies era.

Today the women are ruling the world through their privileges. Whenever she shouts for a cause, immediately positively responded nevertheless the purpose does not favor her. For instance in Pakistan whenever a woman claims or shouts everybody stands in the favor of her whatever the matter is, not concerning who is right just they support the females. Whenever they do anything wrong, opponents are always being scolded. Consequently they always have the upper hand in the different situations.

There is an old Russian Saying,

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

You will find this post at
http://mohsinkerai.blogspot.com/2012/01/2300-hours-searching-for-light-in-dark.html

Cultural Day WSJ

Karen Armstrong Quotes
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

World Scout Jamboree - 40600 Participants, nah.. now its 48000 People.... !!!
hosts of the camp in camp are here, visiting the campsite, watching how we live daily, whats our culture, how we spend our day.

July 28, 2011

Today, July 28, 2011, simple but a rainy day for us.. it was so fun with the new friends, doing activities with them, having fun, sharing ideas with them

started off with the breakfast in the morning we headed towards the people activity and after that we had our lunch and then we gone towards summer camp for swapping but unfortunately we were in winter :P we even don't know that we were in winter.. we started swapping, finding new poeple for new badges, new contacts and new friends... we swapped with the winter people, took pictures, shared about Pakistan and had fun with them. We roamed in the winter meet new people, tried to learn their language.. after that we came towards our camp for dinner... we made keema, ate it, it was so delicious and made us remember Pakistani Street foods..

after the dinner we again gone for swapping as were were fond of doing that and as it was the start so we all wanted to do all the swapping first :P this time we found some woggles too... it was so fun to be at the World Scout Jamboree 2011...

I must say that every scout must attend jamboree to increase some experience, some socialization in their life..

Thank You.. :)

Camp in Camp

Leave Nothing But Thanks -
Camp Law -
Sir Robert Stephenson Smith Baden Powell of Gilwill

Camp in Camp, a newly introduced event which means you have to do a camp while you are in camping, it sounds really interesting when you say camp, but it is much more difficult to do that, explain that, show that, perform that.
We were told that we have to go for camp in camp, preparations all around, curiosity, excitement, yelling all around, we just wanted to experience what is it, how it is done..
We were told to sit on the bus, the 2 hour drive led us to a new campside, where the germans were there.. they were host for us, they gave a big tent in which Austrians, Itallian, French, Dutch, Japenese, UK People, and we, Pakistani were there... it was a huge black tent.
As we went there, we were asked to made up the dinner, it was a hole digged and some burnt wood were there.. we were so confused that what will happen and what we will do... Hosts gave us a Pan for the cooking and showed us the way for the wood. We gathered some wood, and with the help of German Kid's Ligher, Light up the Stove..
Now it was hurdle for the cooking oil which was missing in our kit :P we went to the hosts and again they helped us in finding that... we made some KABAB's and had our lunch..
after we gone for the activity in which there was monkey band, Friendship band, lizard and much more... i selected the friendship band because I already know how to make some .. but it was a new and tough one with new designing in it.. :|
After the band I go for the Badminton, it was so fun to play with the Norway people, one of them was a really good player..
continuing the day we gone for the volley ball and after that done the camp fire..
The german songs, the Itallian Dance, and ofcourse the Pakistani Aalo Yaante Rocked the camp fire there and the new and awesome was their yell..
"Uri Uri Uri" ... "yea Yea Yea"... Was the best part of that night..
It was so cold and the bugs doesn't wanted us to sleep in the tent.. so we all decided to sing the songs whole night through the fire.. a leader and a participant of UK, Hosts and the Pakistani Sung their songs through out the mid night.. indeed it was the germans who said the good night to all of us in a gentle manner through the beats and strings of guitar, it was the soft and a gentle good night that led us to the sweet dreams

In the morning suddenly some people came in our camp and starting singing, what the mess it was, we all stood up and saw, it were again the germans who wanted to say us good morning in a new way that we had'nt seen... we didn't understand the whole song but the thing that we know is the GOOD MORNING word that they told us ;)
Finally It was time to cook food for the break fast and after that lunch, patrol with lots of hurdle could make up the food in with such limited resources
So hard camp, the hardest time we had but the thing that we learnt is to live in the hardest conditions

SCOUTING ROCKS... !!!

Also find this post at
http://mohsinkerai.blogspot.com/2012/01/camp-in-camp.html

Quest - Simply Scouting

Mindblowing, Awesome, Energetic, Lovely, Struggling, Creative, Dynamic such a great activity planned by the jamboree Team.

We used to see in the POGO Tv Channel the games there to run, jump off the wood, slip in the water, go through the muds, ring the drum, but now it was the time for us to do that so.. It was really a great fun to go for the game that we used to see and laugh, needed concentration, energy, hope, curiosity, and the Team Sprit.. we ran off towards the hurdles which was wood piles about of 4 ft high, we jumped off that so we seen some web like thing to climb on it, as we jumped from that wood height it was the plansic tent by which we've to crawl and pass it on, this wasn't enough so they made a slide of wood, mud and water.. :P in which we splash.. !!! WoowWW.. What an activity it was...

following it we entered into the Maze, alotted a particular time, we've to find the 3 codes there...
the whole team run around, visiting the site, roaming the whole arena, forgot and lost, found something but lost the way, code on the keys.. sprit in the scouts, passion on head, its simply maze.. in which we are being watch by IST team from the tower. :P and guided by them.. finally after 3 activities we got the code to unlock the keys.. :)

it was such a great experience that i can't forget.. it was simply amazing..
ended by the closing ceremony was the dance on "magarita" and Tonight gonna be a good night it was so amazing that in the whole life we canot forget this.. :)