29,000 Scouts have traveled from all around the world for an amazing Jamboree experience, but what about the International Service Team (IST)? With up to 10,000 international volunteers helping to run the Jamboree, Spring Town (Adult Town) offers a range of activities ensuring that every-one on site has an opportunity for an amazing Jamboree experience.
At the Spring Information Centre IST members of all ages and all cultures are scrambling for pens. Looking for an opportunity to break up their work day, everyone is in a hurry to sign up for the IST experience before all of the activities completely fill up! Karina, Dawn and Coco from Hong Kong put their name down for an ‘Unaids Dance for Life’ session, while Floraine from Switzerland manages to join a spiritual experience. As names and reservations for experiences are coming in hard and fast ‘IST experience’ trainers are been wondering if it is possible to run a program for 7,000 participants with only 100 people! While they don’t exactly know, they sure are going to try!
The IST experience is all about enhancing the Jamboree experience for those who volunteer their time running it. It is an educational, interesting and challenging program built on four themes: Our World, Personal Development, Spiritual Experience and New Skills, with different modules offered within each theme. The experience has been so popular that registration for themes and modules needs to be done two days in advance!
Stephen O’Malley from the UK loved his Personal Development experience. Along with the ‘Our World’ theme, through active debate and discussion, IST’s are working towards solutions for how to change the world together! “It consisted of a tonne of group games which illustrated how different people have different ways of communicating. It really helped to start breaking down language barriers” he said.
Valentina Marino and Ludovica Carini from Italy completed modules in Spiritual Experience and New Skills. “It was great fun, we did a Swedish module on basic language to communicate with Swedish people…and it was great fun to meet new people, which is the important thing” they said.
Text by: Megan Donoghue
Photo: Florian Brandl
Hej Ashley
Cant wait to hear about the adventure! Enjoy the party!
See you Monday
Love Mum & Dad x x x
Hi James and Nick from Stockport UK, hope you’ve had fantastic time!!M&D
“Está chegando a hora de ir…”
Mas o retorno é o início de uma longa história que perdurará pela memória dos nossos escoteiros para sempre. Um abraço a todos que estiveram ligados, acompanhando e torcendo para que tudo desse certo. Agradecimento especial a Deus que protegeu os nossos filhos, aos organizadores e a todos que contribuíram com a realização do Jamboree/2011 para que fosse um sucesso absoluto. Valeu!!
Hi, How will I be able to obtain my IST Jamboree Certificate for the participation? Any body Please suggest me. Thank you!!
Hi Sean K from Dayton OH USA. Hope you are having a great experience. Enjoy these last few days!!
Saludos al buen Salvador Padilla, jefe del IST de la Delegaciòn Mexicana. Aquì desde Mèxico. Ya lo vì con sombrero charro, con una Scout.
Esperando que estès disfrutando de este grandioso Jamboree.
It is a fantastic show WSJ Sweden an opportunity to meet people from different countries of the world with a comon one AIM Scouting. Tasawwur missing you. Enjoy every bit of JAM good luck.
Henry from Richmond, BC. Canada at the WINTER ‘Downhill Cafe’. Keep up the good work! supporting WJ and hope you’re having a good time. Miss you and can’t wait to hear all the news!
Hey guys and gals from the 20th Walsall, keep up the hard work on the IST, looking forward to some amazing stories of Jamboree life.
Taz from Australia, hoping you are having a great time, miss you and see you soon.
Fantastic opportunity to make friend and meet people from other countries with a common purpose. An amazing event!