Some arrived early, some are postponing.

The rain helped with the temperature so it was only 26 degrees in the tent. Woke up a lot during the night and at six I got up, heading for breakfast.

At the dining hall, we met a subcamp chief that lives in the furthest subcamp. If the shuttle bus is full or canceled, they have to walk for one hour 20 minutes. Not a lot of comfort for me, but it could be worse.

The ten-minute walk back to camp took its toll. The lack of sleep and the heat is noticeable. When I came back, a guy was setting up gutters between the tents. Would have been lovely to have had that, 24 hours earlier.

We started digging ditches so the water that was still here could flow away, and if (when) more is coming, hopefully, it won’t get as high.

Me, Fredrik, and Martin walked across our Subcamp to help our buggy that got stuck in the mud. We tried but it was too heavy and too deep.

Then we did an inventory of all our sites, 55 of them. Grading them on a scale from 1 to 3, where 3 is unlivable, meaning still large pools of water. My part had about 50 % threes, a few ones, and the rest twos. Not sure how we/they are going to act on the information but at least someone knows the status.

Spent the day continuing to set up the different functions, signs, portal, and food delivery system. Last night our first unit arrived but got held at the welcome center because we don’t have any working toilets and showers. Today at lunch they showed up, a unit from Namibia. So we got to test our arrival system.

At four we had a meeting discussing the upcoming 36 hours when we will receive all our units (hopefully). Assignments were given, and tasks were described. Before dinner, I managed to do inventory with our third arriving troop, from Cambodia. Me, Fredrik, and Moa together with the troop leader went through all the stuff they got, noted a couple missing, and then got a signed form.

Afterwards me and Fredrik went to find the closest working male adult shower (there are lots of categories). On the way we met another Swedish IST who also works at a subcamp and he was down. Alone Swede (we are seven), no information, bad leadership. We welcomed him to hang in our subcamp whenever possible and I urged him to speak to the CMT, which he later did.

We found our shower and took off to dinner. In the queue, I met a Finish CMT guy and his wife (they met briefly at WSJ2019 in the USA, she’s American). Along with their friend, we had dinner together and I got the information that the Finish contingent had decided to withhold their participants one day, so instead of tomorrow (Tuesday), they will arrive on Wednesday. An hour later the Swedish CMT announced in our Discord that the USA, Sweden, and the UK had made the same decision. Earlier in the day I heard that the Dutch contingent also did the same thing. This is roughly a fourth of the participants. A clear mark that the Jamboree organization hasn’t fully succeeded (or even failed…).

After dinner, I talked with my brother Peter on the phone while I was walking back and he mainly laughed, and I can understand why. Some of this seems almost parodic. I got my shower and then went to bed (26 degrees, yay!), just gonna finish this post first. Up at 5:30 tomorrow to get breakfast before my shift at 7. Good night!