Raft Race Day

The raft race on Saturday was a very enjoyable day. There were four other people on the raft, two explorers, another scout, and a leader. They are all going to the Caribbean as well.

We had to paddle for three miles from Leamington Spa to Warwick. Our raft was called "scouting for the Caribbean" and it was made out of pioneering poles, ropes, and barrels. We got soaked whenever a raft went past us, or we went past them because the other rafters had buckets of water, flour bombs and water pistols. Luckily during the day I didn't fall in, not even when we had to cross the wear, which was all slippery. When we tried to get the raft out of the water at the end, the bank that was under water was really muddy, and my trainers just sank in.  Overall it took us a bit over two hours to complete the race. It will be very nice if I can also get my scout group interested to enter in the future.

I have put some of the pictures from the day on my Facebook Page. Check them out by clicking this link Many thanks to Phil Fry from 3rd Warwick scouts for organising our entry and acting as team leader, and everybody who sponsored me. There is still time to sponsor me if you would like to, through paypal using the e-mail victoriareed@tiscali.co.uk (my mum!).

First Training Day

My first training day went well. Everyone was very friendly and I made friends. We had a number of ice breaking games through out the day. One was the human knot where you have to stand in a circle, everyone puts their right hand into the middle and grabs hold of somebody else right hand. The same in then done with the left hands then you have to get out of the knot without letting go. It was good because everyone worked as a team and came up with ideas to get out however we were still knotted by the end. 

We were doing an unusual fact game where you had facts and you had to go round the room and ask people what their fact was. The most unusual fact was that somebody had slept in a pineapple!

As group we came up with a new necker to wear for the expedition and training days it will be the British necker i.e. red, white & blue with the Carib2015 logo on the back.

The expedition will be going to Antigua, Anguilla and / or St. Kitts & Nevis. Exact location is to be finalised. We will be doing some community work while we are there possibly renovating a building for community use. At the camps we will be staying in two man tents and be cooking our own food using local ingredients. We will be practising cooking and other skills at the training weekends. We found out that in the Caribbean they eat a lot of fish, curried goat and yams. The food seems very tasty and colourful. I am looking forward to trying the food with all the spices.

To raise money the Coventry expedition members will be having a Laughter Yoga session. Date and place to be announced. I'll keep you updated.

Events Coming Up

I have three events coming up one of then is the raft race that you will have seen in one of my previous posts. A couple of the new things are:

Scout Hut Open Day - You will be able to throw we sponges at me for a charge of course! So if you want a bit of mischief, have a go.

There will also be Chocolate Bingo at the Scout hut later on in the year.

Details will be posted here and on my FB page in due course.

First training day on Sunday. I have to take some Caribbean food. I been looking through recipe books and have some ideas. I don't quite know what yet but it will involve sweetcorn and probably a bit of chilli! 

I'll tell you about the training day and how it went next week.

Keep watching :-)