You can refer to days 7 and 8 for how my morning went.
The ticket sales for today had been shut off weeks ago, and I had heard the number sold exceeded 3,800. We arrived to the usual line of early birds. We set to work and got the visitors through security and on the buses. After the largest crowds had come through, about half of the staff was released. Those of us who stayed would be getting a half day on Monday.
A Finnish visitor that I had connected with through Facebook before the Jamboree came through, and brought me a few fun patches. When we were got on the bus I saw a Hemulen dressed in a Finnish scout uniform. I was told that he is a Reippailija-Hemuli, and first attended the Japan Jamboree.
Once we got back to Echo, we headed to Chat-and-Chew, and grabbed some cold drinks. We sat near a fan for a while, charged our devices, and browser social media. I popped by the sauna and found out the whole thing was reserved for the Finnish leaders all night, and I would not be able to go in the sauna tonight. I was quite disappointed.
We hung out until we got hungry, then went to eat. We even found someone with a box of Cards Against Humanity cards, and played a few rounds. After dinner we went to watch the movie of the evening. Tonight’s showing was Hidden Figures. I hadn’t seen it before, and really enjoyed it.
On my walk back to the tent after the movie I called home, because I knew my friends were at our monthly game night. The Engineer said he couldn’t hear me on a video call so I tried again with a regular phone call. They seemed to be having quite a bit of fun.
After I hung up a person walking near me asked where I was from. I saw her Finnish contingent name tag and answered in Finnish that I had been born in Finland. For most of the week I have phrased my responses in the form of “I live in”, as that’s really what most people mean when they ask that. But when I get into a bit of a more involved conversation I let them know I was born in Finland. We chatted for a bit, and I learned that she works at the same hospital as my mom does. She had also answered my question before Jamboree in a Facebook group about the wool socks I had seen for the Finnish contingent. Small world.
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