Kastrup Copenhagen is the main airport in Denmark, but at the 27th of July 2011 it was full of young people headed for another country. Young people with colorful shirts, scarfs and in some cases hats. As you probably already have guessed, they were scouts going to the Jamboree! And maybe you were one of them?
Right outside the baggage claim we met Amelia from Hong Kong, who had been travelling for over 12 hours just to get to Kastrup. While catching a transit flight on the way there she met some scouts from Singapore, but otherwise she and her fellow travellers had been the only scouts at the journey. As she is a Carer for another scout going to the Jamboree, she hoped that her careperson will learn and have an exchange from other places of the world. Since the Jamboree will consist of more than 150 nationalities, that is not unlikely!
When Amelia had to move on towards her baggage, the hall was suddenly empty of scouts. For a little moment. Just after a short moment, a group of Canadian scouts showed up and of course wanted to talk to us. Spencer, Lewis and Oliver had all been travelling towards Frankfurt as early as this saturday, and thought the time they spent in Germany was great. Since one of them had visited Sweden before, they had some thoughts about it already. ”They have meatballs, and it seems safe!”
Anna and Giorgia from Italy was also on their way to the baggage. The flight to Amsterdam had left Italy Tuesday midnight, and they were planning to go on to the Jamboree by bus. Their hopes to meet new people from other parts of the world but their own had already come true since they met Scouts from both France and Venezuela on the way!
The longer the time went on, the more scouts arrived at the hall and suddenly a whole gate was filled with beige shirts and caps with the American flag. One of the scouts were Maya from Dallas, who was superpumped and ready for the Jamboree! The thing she looked forward to the most about was meeting new people and learning about cultures, but also to the different kinds of food that is to be served at camp.
A real Scouting airport so to speak! Even though the other travellers maybe didn’t know what was going on, all the scouts knew, and could connect just by being scouts and saying hi to eachother. Something big was going on, and it was great to be there.
Text by: Linnea Wedelin
Pls go to the UK Food house and say ‘Hi’ to my son, ‘mouse’. He is part of the organising team of the castle and has been working silly hours for many weeks to get the food house ready. They all deserve a big thank you. Enjoy the food house
Hi I’ am Iris Agius from the Island of Malta. Hope all the Maltese contingent are enjoying themselves! Wish that I am there with you! Special hugs goes to my son Nicolai who is there with the Mosta group. Enjoy it to the full. Love from Mum Dad, and Aaron.
am from nigeria, i wish all scout @ the jamboree congratulation and all muslim scout happy ramadan[ramadan karem], i love u all.
hi…….. i wish u world jam
Greetings to all participants and we hope you have a great time at the WSJ. Thank you for remembering those in Oslo, Norway. Pray for Peace.
I just hope you are having a great time up there
¿dónde están los españoles? ¿habrán terminado de hacer las tortillas de patatas?…. Pues que alguien les haga una fotito de una vez.
Los ojitos los tenemos quemados de tanto buscar en los vídeos, y no los vemos por ninguna parte.
Widnes & District Scouts:
Hej! G’day!
From the USA
~Wild Bill
Re BSA Troop 70003:
Anyone see Scout Master Paul Lauer, Assistant Scout Master Roger Dickhans, or Scout Dylan Kemper? When you do tell “Hej!” from the USA!
~”Wild Bill” Blackburn
Enjoy such an unforgettable experience!!!!!!!!!!! Warm greetings from Colombia, South America
Oh guys, you are lucky to be able to participate in this wonderful event.
Léif Gréiss vu Lëtzebuerg a Schweden!
Enjoy it!
What an amazing event. Have fun Mac Atttridge from Waterdown Ont Canada
Oh and a big Hello to my other niece Cikka (from Malta)…. we love you tooooooooo
A big Happy Birthday to my niece Kristina Abela from the Malta group. We love you loads….Nicky Simon Julia and Hannah xxxxxxxxxxxx
¿Los españoles, sin fotos?
Just wondered if I would see our Scouts from Switzerland… especially those from Vis a Vis from Zurich Oberland. Hope all of you are haveing fun… Looking at the pictures it sure looks like it…Take good care..
Dónde están los españoles? No se ve ni una foto.
Saying hello to all the Canadian Scouts!! Espically the ones from 25th Red Deer Patrol. Hope you guys are having an awesome time take lots of pictures and remember to have fun! Missin you all espically my son Byron
Just wondering who grandson Dylan Kemper (BSA Troop 70003 from Pennsylvania, USA) has met, so far, what he has been doing, and how excited he may be at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden.
i hope that in the next jumbore the scouts can visit lebanon
Come on UK’s GLS Cutty Sharks – lets see you on live TV!!!!
hello to the Maltese Contingent especially to the Gozitans.
Nick UK Unit 34 Kivik, have a wonderful time and enjoy all that WSJ has to offer.
What a fantastic site they look at the airport, and what a fantastic time they have had so far, my son is with the Muddy dragons, I love following what they have been up too.
Ghana my country,wish all a the scouts. Rock is so much fun that’s what it’t all about-filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. Have fun i love u all.
While I was searching for my daughter Antara from Bangladesh, looking at the faces of all the scouts seems like they are all my daughters!!
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