Chip likes clean water

Wednesday 9 July

After a relaxing evening, Wednesday was back to work. Chip learned about the Millennium Development Goals and the Scouts of the World Award. It was really inspiring to hear about the great projects already happening around the World that support the Scouts of the World Award and also the world scouting movement’s millennium development goals. Chip’s going to take all the information back to Canada and get people pumped about it!

After lunch it was time for the youth to give back to the community. Youth were allowed to sign up for various community projects such as tree planting and senior home visiting. Chip’s home depends on clean water in the rivers so he was very interested in taking a tour of a waste water treatment facility.

Here’s a photo of Chip with Deepesh from India. They are about to tell the youth about how a treatment plant works.

Here’s Chip at the entrance stage.

Here’s Chip with Hae Ran from Korea, they both didn’t like the smells very much.

They also went to the river where the treated water was released. We tested the pH of the water. It was better than the bottled whatever that we had! Here’s Chip enjoying the clean water and scenery.



In the evening we had a cultural evening. This was the chance for countries to showcase their culture, traditions with costumes and performances.

Here’s a bunch of photos from the event! Too many to describe!

As usual, more to come from Chip soon!

Election Results!

After what seemed like an eternity, the voting tellers returned to reveal the final vote count. Kevin and five others Youth Advisors by his peers!

Here are the Youth Advisor election results!

Karin Ahlbäck - Finland
Jaemin Choi – Korea
Milena Pecarski – Serbia
Nadia Soledad Morrone - Argentina
Fernanda Santos Soares - Brazil
Kevin Li – Canada

Kevin thanks Chip and others from around the world for their support! Here’s a photo of all the new Youth Advisors, Jaemin got cutout of the photo!

After the elections, everyone went out to have a good time and celebrate the conclusion of the selection process and to congratulate all candidates for their efforts! Now comes the hard work!

Canada Votes

Tuesday July 8th - Afternoon

Next was the election to Youth Advisors. Kevin was one of 15 candidates standing for one of six vacancies. Candidates were allowed to give a 3-minute speech to the all the other youth delegates at the program. Chip was by Kevin’s side while he gave his 3-minute presentation and definitely gave it the extra special oomph!

Here’s a photo of Iain dropping in Canada’s ballot. He’s the blue blurry one. Next, here's a photo of Chip taking everything in.

Nina presents Brazil

Tuesday July 8th - Morning

With the help of Nina the Parrot, Marila and Rapheal from Brazil came on stage to present the next Youth Forum in 2011. It looks like it’s going to be more awesome than Korea (if that’s even possible).

Here's a photo of Raphael and Marila, then of course we have Nina and her sisters with Chip!

Chip meets the world!

Things just get more and more awesome!

Tuesday started off with Chip learning more about the challenges that Scouting is faced with at the world level in the new century. Issues such as Governance Reivew, Educational Methods, Membership Development, and Scouting's Profile were discussed! Chips liked the discussion on diversity as he'd like to see more of his platypus friends in Scouting. Here's a few photos from the discussions.

Here's a few photos of chip with our youth delegation and many other youth delegates from around the world on Monday.

The Project Fair was really cool! Chip to got see many countries showcase themselves and their scouting organizations.

** Photos to be uploaded later today!

Chip makes many friends!

Apologies from Chip! Between making friends and taking part in the exciting events like the opening ceremony, he hasn't had a lot of time to blog back to Canada and post photos.

What an exciting 36 hours it has been!

Monday morning kicked off with a welcome from the Chairman of the World Scout Youth Forum. This was followed by a report from the current Youth Advisors on what they have achieved for the past three years.

There was also a lot of information on what exactly WOSM is, what they do, and why they exist. He made friends with the delegates from Finland. Karin on the right is a candidate for the Youth Advisor position like Kevin. She's really cool too!

Next Chip went outside to participate in the group photo of the world. All the youth attendees gathered together to form an image of the world and all its continents.

Chip also made a special friend. Nina the Parrot from Brazil. She was very excited to tell Chip all about the next World Youth Forum in Brazil in 2011.

The evening wrapped up with the Opening Ceremony. Chip felt like he was in the Olympics. Every performance was amazing and the after party dance left Chip with a great high of Scouting Spirit (and soaked from head to tail!).

The evening ended with some Korean Cub Scouts cutting a cake to commemorate the centennary of World Scouting!

That's all from Chip, he's got to run and catch the Project Fair where all the scout organizations showcase scouting in their country!

Chip gets down to work

Today, Chip got to see a little bit of the Korean countryside. After a large Korean breakfast, he started making plans to go out and see a Korean Temple, which was about a 20 minute taxi ride from Wonkwang university. Here, he was joined of course by Iain and Kevin, but also by Rovers from Moldova, Turkey and Serbia. Everyone had a great time, even though it was a very, very hot day out in the sun. It's a good thing Chip had his Beaver hat on, or he might have burned his ears.

However, it wasn't all fun and games for little Chip. He was put to work right after lunch at the Inter-America Region meeting. There was information on other youth networks from North and South America, as well as a lot of sharing of ideas and views on how Scouting can become much stronger in this part of the world.

Breaking only for a nice dinner, Chip continued long into the night, for a total of eight hours with the Inter-America Regional meeting. There's a lot that has happened even in just the last year around the Americas so there's a lot of information to soak in. In just one room, there were delegates from the very north of North America, to the very southern tip of Argentina: literally spanning the globe from the North to South Poles. What a great concept.

From all the discussions of the day, compounded with a significant lack of sleep last night, Chip is pretty tired so he may have to go to bed a little early tonight. It's only midnight here in Iksan. Still, the Canadian Flag flies proudly from Chip's little flag pole as he represents all Beaverkind at the World Scout Youth Forum.