Breakfast was served between 7:30 and 8:30, so we got up to get some. I was still really tired and would have preferred to sleep for a couple of hours more, but on the other hand, I was quite hungry and probably needed the food. However, I have a hard time getting used to the Korean breakfast that looks more like a lunch or dinner.
After breakfast, we did some washing in the washing machine we had on our floor. After the mess at the laundry service on the Jamboree, we created a simple queue where you put your laundry in a line and then reported in a Discord thread when someone was done and who was next. Worked like a charm!
We had a small rack for drying clothes in our room, but Jonas filled that on his own, even when he put the shirts on hangers in the closet. So we had to get creative. He had some string with him and we started to look for anchor points in the room. The ventilation, a lock on the window and the hinges on the closet had to do. By this, we got up three lines which were enough for all my clothes.
Tomorrow is the closing ceremony of the Jamboree, and it takes place at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, where Jonas and I together with Roland attended a football game on our very first day in South Korea. A few of us have been discussing staying in Seoul afterward, instead of taking the two-hour bus ride back to Cheonan, just to go by bus to Seoul again on Saturday.
We got together in the afternoon and booked hotel and train tickets. I went down to the reception to see if they could help us book taxis from where we are staying to the train station. This wasn’t as easy as you would think. Taxis couldn’t be booked in advance, and if the weather was poor tomorrow, they might not drive at all. In this operation, I didn’t think the four km trip to the train station would be the hard part.
I found the app Kakao T which offered to “reserve a cab in the future” but it required a Korean ID card och similar so that was a bust. However, they rotated the staff in the reception and the new guy didn’t seem to be bothered that we wouldn’t get a taxi in the morning. Cross your fingers that he’s right!
Just before dinner, we took a photo with everyone staying at this facility. A majority of the Swedish ISTs are in this picture.
After a bunch of pictures were taken someone started to sing “Temperaturen”, a common campfire song within the scouts, and many joined in. Got quite loud with the high ceiling 😀
After dinner, we went to the bowling alley they have on campus(!). Had some fun for an hour, some of us followed up with a short match of badminton and then I went to my room to pack. Throwing away some stuff now that I’m only staying at hotels from now on. My pillows for example. The Crocs that my (probably) swollen feet can’t fit into anymore.
Tomorrow we will leave the Jamboree to go to Seoul on our own. We will, in theory, return during the closing ceremony but the camping-part is over, and soon the visit in South Korea. On the 14th, Jonas and I are flying to Singapore!
