Chairman Laney:- "Parents, I want to take this moment to assure you we have the best, most highly trained, superbly qualified leaders of this [National Jamboree] troop."

1st Assistant SM Hudson:- "So... where are these replacements?"

3rd Assistant SM Schiller [me]:- "Patch trading is a very big thing at Jamborees, annnnd I jot got some more papers, thanks." (I was handed more sheets of info.)

1st Assistant SM Hudson:- "Patch trading is not to be done between yoth and adults and vice versa."

SM Lahey:- "And I assure you, this is to protect the adults more than the youth."

National Jamboree troop 748 had its first troop meeting today. We don't have our entire contingent filled yet, and several kids couldn't make it, but we had a good showing. We covered things from out (impressive) tour summary, to our code of conduct and cell phone policies, medical forms and a day in the life of the Jamboree to uniforms and fees, with me talking about patches and path trading. Overall it went very well, and several of the kids I knew from past events and stuff. One of them was even in my World Jamboree troop back in '07, and I was very eager to welcome him into the crowd.

So far, so good. Next month we'll be selecting our troop youth officers and dividing patrols up, so I'm very excited about that, cuz my friend from '07 may be the Senior patrol leader, which is super for me since he'd make a great lieutenant for me. *cackle* No, seriously, he's a great kid, and I'd love to see him as SPL. And the other officers, too. This looks like a great troop so far.

So yeah. That was the event of the day for me, and it was fine. Well, except for the fact that I have not had much to eat at all, save for a burger a couple hours ago and a few fries. Nothing else.

Blasdfgh. But still, at least the meeting went well.

~EW~