Chil’s Scouting Adventures

Pastels de natas consumed: 1 Rookie lessons learned:learned: 3 I popped my head out of my tent very early this morning, partly because I really wanted a shower (the queue last night was of epic proportions) and partly because I wanted to check the view outside my tent was actually real and this whole thing…

Pastels de natas consumed: 0 (disappointing, requires improvement) Rookie lessons learned: 3 Today the Moot officially started with the main opening ceremony at Parque Tejo (now Parque Papa Francisco since yesterday’s announcement). All the participants had joined us over the course of yesterday (and overnight… several participants in my pod group arrived so late that it…

Pastels de natas consumed: 0 (but did eat 1 Nutella and mango crêpe) Rookie lessons learned: 3 Today began with a 3am chorus of impressive snoring prowess by my tent neighbours. The chap to my left contributed something which resembled the love child of a fire engine siren and an angry set of bagpipes (with…

Pastels de natas consumed: 1 International camp newbie lessons learned: 3 My day began in a well-known hotel chain (the one with big, purple artwork on the walls) next to Manchester airport and ended with a samba party alongside members of the international service team from 114 different countries! The good thing about wearing a…

This time next week I will be enjoying the Opening Ceremony of the 16th World Scout Moot somewhere in a park in the centre of Lisbon, having completed a full day of training the day before with my international service team counterparts from all around the world. It’s an exciting, scary, intriguing, crazy thought and…

Around a year ago I made the decision to press ‘submit’ on an application to attend the World Scout Moot in Portugal as a member of the International Service Team. I have never done something like that before but I was feeling a bit trapped in my life of relentless work and parenting and I…