What's been happening in the life of an explorer scout going to Japan this year?
Lots of things have been happening from fantastic training camps to bag packing in Guernsey. The district jamboree committee helped myself and other fellow scouts to put on another quiz for fundraising. Oh, and I went to visit Frenchie is Guernsey over christmas.
Training Camps
Since I lasted posted, I have had the pleasure of attending 2 training camp with other scouts and explorers from my contingent. During a weekend in September, we went to join the guernsey lot on a camp over on their Island. We did many activities from coasteering to pioneering. This camp flew by, which was a huge disappointment, because we were having far too much fun with exploring the island and doing many activities. Luckily for us, the weather was clear and sunny which helped contirbute to our fantastic camp. One of the best evenings I recall from that camp was, on the saturday evening, where we hiked a long way to the beach then proceeded to have a BBQ and play beach games... I also recall Kenneth and I diving for the flying missile and ending up getting very wet in the water. We were very sad to see to leave the island! The next camp was not that long ago at the start of january. We went to the New Forest and thankfully reunited with the guernsey lot. On the first night we went on a night hike and I am proud to say that my group were the only group that did not get lost. Good luck to the rest of you lot when navigating in Japan! After the hike we failed to get any sleep and started the next day with tired eyes and mixed tempers... nonetheless we had a great time. During the weekend we finally decided on unit clothing, tried new food and talked about patrols. We also discovered our 'Japan in a box' which was very entertaining! 
Christmas
As Frenchie and I have grown to become rather good and close friends, we decided to meet up over the christmas holidays. So on the 21st Dec, I flew out to Guernsey and spent a few days with him and his family. Whilst over there, he showed me around the island, showed me his dad's fishing boat and his dad showed me their WWII bunker that they use to store fishing equipment. On the lines of fundraising, I took part in some bag packing at M & S with the other scouts that were going to japan as well. I felt very welcomed over there so thank you to all those who made it a memorable visit.
District Fundraising
Over these past few months, us scouts and explorers in the chandlers ford district have been doing many fundraising events. In November, myself and the other 9 scouts and explorers going to japan put on a quiz in the local community centre. We had around 125 people turn out to participate in our quiz, the profits raised from it were very good and from what I have heard from those who participated in it, they thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you to all those who turned up! Like Christmas 2013, we put on our Christmas bazaar again. That generated a few monies for the pot so thank you to those who bought a stall and those who turned up to buy. I'm looking forward to these upcoming months as we have a district campfire to look forward to!
So there we have it, what I have been doing since I lasted posted!
Until next time,
James :)
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