Thursday started out cloudy and none of us knew what was going to happen later that night.
The morning we went to the Skill-O-Rama, where scouts from all over the world put on exhibits of their native countries. "For Understanding" was the motto of the 13th World Jamboree, and walking around the Jamboree site, you could see a German Scout walking down the road wth a New Zeland T-Shirt, a Phillipino neckerchief, and a Japanese hat with a South African springbok hatband.
Conversations with a number of souts indicated that the trading process wsa more likely to follow the rules of friendship than anything else. One Scout from Seattle, for instance, recieved a Keynan neckerchief after a few minutes of talking.
At lunch, we had another friendship exchange, where some scouts from Australia came by our campsite to visit.
However by early afternoon the clouds had started to turn to heavy rain and wind as Typhoon Olive struck Japan and started to flood our campsite. Many of us were evacuated, but our troop elected to find refuge in one of the large service tents where we spent the evening and that night sleeping.
Friday morning we returned to our campsite and found many of our belongings flooded and waterlogged. We spent most of the day sorting out our gear and trying to dry out our sleeping bags.
