On Tuesday evening the Scouts went down the Town Hall, and learnt about what the council does to run the city. Ian McKinnon the deputy mayor showed us around the Mayors office and the decision making centre the council chamber.
We thank Deputy Mayor, Ian McKinnon for his time to show us around.
The Deputy Mayor signed autographs for the scouts
The scouts sitting in the mayors seat
Making an announcement
One of our Scout Patrol Leaders, Liam, was invited to attend the Royal Visit recently at Government House in Wellington. His attendance provided an opportunity for this photo to be taken with Lieutenant General Sir Jerry Mateparae (the GG is Chief Scout in NZ).
It was apparently the only photo taken with a member of the visiting public… wearing a scout uniform does have its privileges!
– via Andrew
This evening the scouts looked at weather, Andrew took them through isobar maps high and low pressure and Henry showed everyone a real time map of wind flow over the USA – particularly relevant given this was the evening of Hurricane Sandy!
A big Bravo to the cubs for collecting a massive load of rubbish from around the Hall, community centre, garden and school. This activity counts towards the Community Service element of the cub award scheme.
True to the virtual, participate anywhere, nature of a Jamboree on the Internet, Brooklyn cubs and scouts participated from 3 locations! A small group went of to Masterton, and two home events were held in Brooklyn.
Lyn (Scout Alaigne’s mum) writes:
The “InBrooklyn” JOTI event – 5 scouts and one cub crowded around 3 computers which had been set up for accessing the 2012 JOTI chat rooms and TeamSpeak. For over three hours they thoroughly enjoyed “chatting” (typing) and talking with kids from Netherlands, Portugal, Venezuala, Ecuador,Croatia,Canada, the US, England, Scotland, Australia, Antigua & Barbuda, and others (including other Brooklyn Scouts on camp in Masterton!)
One memorableexchange was with a group in the Netherlands – in Dutch. Our bi-lingua scout had to correct their impression that New Zealand was close to Zeeland in the Netherlands (arguably it is, because that’s where our name came from) but he told them in no uncertain terms (in Dutch) that we are on the other side of the world!
Some took a break from tapping on computer keys and attempted some 2012 JOTI challenges and tasks. We also tried actually talking (using TeamSpeak) which resulted in many laughs, as voice quality and response times made discussion a little difficult, but our cub member made the best job of having a “real” conversation with some Aussies.
The rest thoroughly enjoyed typing responses furiously and finding out about the likes and dislikes of scouts all over the world. 🙂
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