Today is Sunrise day and belive me we were up in time to see it. Up at 5am!! We had to meet at the stage on the Adult Arena at 6am then walk down to the Main arena for 8am - this took about 1.5 hours to do. The sunrise ceremony was very well done. (apart from the Chief Scout apearing to forget the Scout Promise - apprently he was doing the 'World Promise' not the UK one and it confused the heck out of everyone at Hylands) The rest of the ceremony involed music and dance interspersed with prayers and readings from all the major faiths. I wouldn't say i'm over religious but it was very moving and way better than the opening ceremony. The night before we were given a pcked breakfast to eat before the ceremony . A cup of coffee would have been good though! Along with the breakfast we were given a pen and a yellow kneckerchief. At the end of the ceremony we were all told to go amongst everyone and collect 100 signatures from other participants. I strted to work towards the stage and exchanged signatures from Scouts from places as wide apart as France, Nepal, USA, Brazil, Austraila and many, many more (see pic). Later on (it was now gone 11am) I wandered around the site untill 2pm when we had a world food fair. All the different countries were encouraged to offer samples of traditional foods. I tried a Chillian type of doughnut bread with a goats cheese and fried locust's from Mexico! - they were actually very nice - a sort of rich meaty taste with a hint of chile.
In the evening some of us met up and went back to watch the Concert at the main arena. The line-up included 'Kylie', My Winehouse, 'Robbie Williams', 'Coolplay' & the 'Commitments'. Yes I have spelt them right - they were all cover acts, but vey good ones. In fact I was down the stage earlier when they arrived to do a sound check. I think they were all slightly gob-smacked when they walked out on stage for the first time. I'm sure 'Robbie' mouthed 'F#@% me!'. According to one of the stage crew I was chatting to most of then have only played clubs and bars... Its not often they get the chance to play to a 30,000+ croud. As it was, by the time 'Robbie' came on the place was really buzzing. The show ender around 10:45 with a big firework display done to the Jambo Song.
What a fantastic, but long day. Back to 'work' tomorrow.
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