This was our last day on extreme. In the morning there was a big meeting for the whole camp at the main stage. We discovered that this was to welcome the Scouts who had made their promise during the previous evening. The Russian Scouts complete a top secret initiation task in the middle of the night and once they have made their promise are sworn to secrecy until this meeting the next day. The only reason we knew that some of them had made their promise was that they were waving their neckers at us which had a friendship knot rather than the 'Cub' knot in them.
After the meeting we went to a pioneering session were we learnt how to make quite a few interesting things. It was a really fun session and it was a little disappointing that it had to be cut short because of the morning meeting but at the same time we really enjoyed seeing the value placed on the promise here - a few of us are trying to work out how we can introduce initiations back home!
In the afternoon some of us went on a bike ride through the village, to the lake. Emily and Alison walked down in to the village to buy a stockpile of condensed milk filled teddy bear cakes for later in the day! Once we got back to camp we began sorting our teams for the Scout Rally with Sparta (the group we shared our campsite with).
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| Pioneering...we didn't make the huge catapult below but were very impressed by it! |
In the afternoon some of us went on a bike ride through the village, to the lake. Emily and Alison walked down in to the village to buy a stockpile of condensed milk filled teddy bear cakes for later in the day! Once we got back to camp we began sorting our teams for the Scout Rally with Sparta (the group we shared our campsite with).
In the evening there was a sub-camp campfire where we all took turns in singing songs. We sang Edelweiss and 'linger' which Alison and Naomi had taught to us earlier in the day. 'Linger' became a new found favourite with the group and reduced a couple of us to tears!
It was then on to a busy evening of visiting other camps, tonight we visited two! First stop was Olga's group 'Calypso' where we played games, sang songs, ate cake and even met Nastia's parents! Then we moved on to another camp where we received a traditional Russian welcome of bread and salt. The group had gone to a lot of effort in preparing for us so we were really please that we were able to visit them, especially when the chocolate covered pancakes, tub of condensed milk and watermelon came out!
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