Newspaper PAGGS 2006, #3

Wednesday 2nd August



The night it was raining, and the morning is not promising  much better . Bad expectations. Some tents are floodded, with wet sleeping bags and carrymats. To avoid more problems in the tents people start to dig little canals around their tents Emergency breaks camprules

The programma becomes a double wateractivitiy  one. ON the water with sailing boats, canoes, rafts....and water from above when the heaven opens his huge water showers. At one stage it looks there is  more water  IN the boats than in the whole Veluwe lake. The strong wind chases the boats over the water with big waves. This is  really too much. But the children are brave sailormn with good captains. . Rafts. English leader Ian King tells enthusiastic about the raft making at the border of the Veluwe lake. With sailing after it Good craftmanship. The raft does not think. Nelson would be proud.  It answers the meaning of the camplogo. PAGGS rules the waves.

People that do not go to the lake stay at the campsite and do different activities like handcraft. Dutch blue delft tiles, painting copies of dutch golden age masters, button making, printing the ship camplogo on the campbags.

But others also do cycling and stepping/scootering in the surroundings in the woods around Harderwijk. (Keep right english and scots)

The conversation of the participants suppose to happen in the english language. But when that not works out, special with the czechs, is body language the only alternative. The czech leaders express their social contacts with their national drink in the evening (after 11 pm)

The menu of Wednesday is  good dutch traditional campfood. Macaroni with much vegetables, meat and sauce. Desert dutch vla (vanilla in different coulors). The apple and orange drinks are available as much you want al the time.

The english camp tradition of the tuck shop (snoepwinkel) is also introduced at this Holland PAGGScamp. Tuck lady Maureen and her little helpers are too busy to serve the long queue. of customers, young and old.  A good social happening with a  learning  united european side effect, paying in Euro money. Later on participants get their ID card with  phot. The funny action film Pirates of the Carribean  in the big white tent closes this extremely wet day.

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