Today, reveille was at 7:00, and within a few minutes most of the scouts at A. P. Hill were up and working on breakfast. Our troop started the day with a troop meeting to hand out ID tags and explain how the day would work. Most of the people went out into the jamboree site and explored the many things to do.
Personally, I went with Michael to the Hometown News (HTN) Tent and I got my credentials and started on an article. At 12:00 noon, Christopher Paolini, author of the Inheritance Series, arrived for a press conference. He was asked many times about the fourth book. He did not say much, but he did tell us a few things.
"When is the next book coming out? Uh, my editor would like to know that too!" said Paolini when asked about the fourth book in the series. "I am getting very close to the end. It's going to have lots of battles in it...It's going to have a really nice, green dragon on the cover. As for the title, I actually named the book before I wrote it. I am very pleased with the title, and if I tell you the title, I'm going to have to lock you all up in a room 'till the book is actually published!"
After lunch we walked around the jamboree and did some sightseeing. I had a rather boring day, but I asked many others what they did and was pleased to find many different activities to do over the next week.
Seth Davis, Plainfield, said that he enjoyed his day in the SCUBA area. "I went SCUBA Diving, and it was fun. I got some tokens from the bottom and wristbands that look like gold underwater." Kevin Knowles, North Stonington, also went SCUBA Diving, "...but the [air] tank hurt when it hit my head." Knowles and Davis plan to SCUBA Dive later in the week.
Other scouts spent their day above water breathing air not contained in a tank. Nick Kinsman, East Haddam, says, "I went rifle shooting and rappelling." Kinsman is Troop 527's Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, working with Paul Van Steenbergen, the troops Senior Patrol Leader. Van Steenbergen also went rifle shooting and rappelling, but spent the rest of the day at the BMX area. He says he's enjoying the jamboree so far and is looking forward to the remaining days.
Nathan Roy, Middletown, spent the day in the BMX area, and later visited the Merit Badge Midway nearby. Zak Boix, Colchester, described his day as well. "Walked around, did some stuff, waited an hour at the bus stop, and traded patches and cards." Later, Boix met the Chief Scout Executive who is attending the jamboree.
The jamboree is becoming more and more exciting and I can't wait to get out and do some of the many events.
-RJ
(PS: What Rj meant by me and him sightseeing was us getting lost finding a lunch station and getting lost trying to get back to camp, lol.)
-Michael
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