Jul 30

Today the rest of the camp was to be torn down. After a quick cereal breakfast for the Scouts they were all packing their gear back up into their backpacks. A few items missing the whole camp were found and packed up. Since I had a train to catch in the morning I wasn't able to see what all went on but as I was leaving there was a complete flurry of activity with the final sub-camp tents coming down.

Last evening all the home-stay envelopes had been handed to the contingent leaders, so this morning the last of the envelopes were handed to the Scouts. Inside their envelopes was a letter to the Scottish Scout parent detailing the name and travel arrangements required for their international Scout, which normally was a date and time that the Scout needed to be at a train station nearby to where the Scottish Scout lives. Also in the envelope was contact information for the entire contingent, and locations of all the home-stay Scouts within the contingent. Plus of course the train ticket pre-booked by the camp and some other instructions for the Scottish Scout parents.

This brings the blog to an end. I will not be seeing any of our Scouts before I get back to Canada. I will make an effort to email all our Scout parents with some contact information for the homestays. For those of you interested in my own travels after camp I think I might keep a journal of what I am doing at http://brianrodenukireland.blogspot.com/. However, being that now I am on “vacation” I won't be making as much effort to keep the new blog up to date every day.