While our first scouts help to get things ready in England most of us are still here in Switzerland waiting for the things getting started. I am sure that all of us are eager to get into the plane or train and start this adventure called Jamboree.

Do not worry at all.
In January 2005, when I started working for the Contingent, it seemed to be an eternity until things will get real.
Well, here I am now…not quite sure if I am ready for this and sometimes I secretly wish we got some month more left to organise and clear things up. But guess what, we do not.
There are not month or weeks left, there are only days left until we will get our backbags ready and head for either the airport or train station.

So…do not be impatient, there is no time left to be…;)

Nevertheless, those few days do not give me much time to think about that too much. Either I am challenged at work or by mails and phone calls loaded with questions for the Jamboree.
Not only members of the Head of Contingent (HoC) who seek to inform me or even ask me for advice, there are still parents as well trying to get hold of me.
Whilst I just have to answer some few simple questions, my friends of the HoC suprisingly get questions which are related to the first dispatch send out in February 2006 to you.
Seems that the nervosity makes people forget a few things.
Never mind though…the same happens to me as well. So no hard feelings…;)

As of yesterday the Swiss Contingent has over thirty people (member of the IST) in England helping the organising comitee to build the camp site.
They left Switzerland from Zuerich and should NOW be very much working…;)

Those members of the build staff (who happend to be IST as well and will stay for the Jamboree do to some more work) will get some backup in a few days. On the 18th of July another fourty people or so will leave Switzerland and join them.
They will help to build up the camp site, too.

We all appreciate that they sacrifice their holidays not only for the Jamboree and their IST-jobs but also to help to pitch up tents, getting the showers and toilets ready and help to make sure that everything is in place when we arrive.
I surely hope that will have some energy left for the 24th of July when they become officially IST…;)