On my very first weekend, after five days of being exposed to an enormous amount of information and impressions, each of the five scout districts here in Mpumalanga had their annual BP Camp. It is basically a weekend, from Friday to Sunday, for scouts where they go camping, do activities and talk about Lord Baden-Powell the Founder of the World Scout Movement. At first Jan Evers and
I went to the Nkomazi district where we spend the night in a tent. The camp was surrounded by a barbed wire fence and within that camping ground the bathroom facilities and a pool were surrounded by walls with broken glass on top, which is quite bizarre when you are first confronted with so many walls and fences that are there only for you to feel safe. The next day we went to the East district for a short visit and it was there, where I saw the biggest bamboo “tree” in my life. The third district on our way was Nsikazi at a place called Eco Link (www.ecolink.co.za), where I met a really interesting old Lady. Sue Hart the founder Eco Link. She lived here in Mpumalanga during the apartheid time and fought the apartheid regime from the
beginning. Back in the days she gave black people a place to live and proper education and over the years she was collecting poems from students, teachers and friends and the collection of all those poems she called “Cries of the Heart”. At the end of my meeting with Sue she gave Muzi (a Rover, scouts aged between 16-25yrs), Julia and Lucy (two scout leaders) and me a copy of that book and more books on environment and planting.
After that I met up with Muzi, who is going to Germany at the end of this month for a three months promoting trip and we played soccer 5 on 5 and of course the team I was on won. The last district was Iyamazane, where 300 scouts camped at a dam that was closed down just for the scouts. This whole weekend I had a whole lot of fun.
On my very first weekend, after five days of being exposed to an enormous amount of information and impressions, each of the five scout districts here in Mpumalanga had their annual BP Camp. It is basically a weekend, from Friday to Sunday, for scouts where they go camping, do activities and talk about Lord Baden-Powell the Founder of the World Scout Movement. At first Jan Evers and 
I went to the Nkomazi district where we spend the night in a tent. The camp was surrounded by a barbed wire fence and within that camping ground the bathroom facilities and a pool were surrounded by walls with broken glass on top, which is quite bizarre when you are first confronted with so many walls and fences that are there only for you to feel safe. The next day we went to the East district for a short visit and it was there, where I saw the biggest bamboo “tree” in my life. The third district on our way was Nsikazi at a place called Eco Link (www.ecolink.co.za), where I met a really interesting old Lady. Sue Hart the founder Eco Link. She lived here in Mpumalanga during the apartheid time and fought the apartheid regime from the 
beginning. Back in the days she gave black people a place to live and proper education and over the years she was collecting poems from students, teachers and friends and the collection of all those poems she called “Cries of the Heart”. At the end of my meeting with Sue she gave Muzi (a Rover, scouts aged between 16-25yrs), Julia and Lucy (two scout leaders) and me a copy of that book and more books on environment and planting. 
After that I met up with Muzi, who is going to Germany at the end of this month for a three months promoting trip and we played soccer 5 on 5 and of course the team I was on won. The last district was Iyamazane, where 300 scouts camped at a dam that was closed down just for the scouts. This whole weekend I had a whole lot of fun.
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