North Area World Scout Day 2019, 23rdFeb2019

Written by Ross Pary, Assistant Sixer and Scribe

It was a very dark Saturday morning. I was very excited as we were going to Bishan Stadium. We were going to commemorate World Scout Day. There were supposed to be about four thousand scouts there. Wow! That’s a lot of children. Many of the groups came from the South and North area. There were a lot of scouts scattered all over the Bishan Stadium field.

 

The guest of honour was Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Trade and Industry. He was also a former Scout. After he took a few pictures with the Chief Commissioners, he showed all of us a very interesting  video. Five scouts actually did something very exciting. They ventured across the whole Singapore, walking on land and travelling on boat on water.

After that, one of the scout emcees said,” Please activate the Scouting light app. We are going to pass down the ‘torch’. 3,2,1, GO!!!!” And, it had begun. Hundreds of scouts started passing it down.

After the ‘torch’ had been passed down, we were split into groups of two sixes. Each group had one senior scout. Later, we went to different booths and started playing to get stamps to complete our score sheet and to get a goodie bag.

My group went to the tennis booth first. I actually found out that I am a decent tennis player. Wow! I learnt so many new things. After we went to about five booths, we went back to the bus bay to assemble.

After a while, the bus arrived, and we went back to the school. Along the journey, I reflected on what I had learnt during the carnival and hope to continue experiencing learning in Scouts.