… probably… I doubt I’ll get time to write anymore from Sletten, Jutland. We’re going home on friday, after 10 eventful days.
I’m relaxing at the moment, in front of our building, with a few friends. Our work for today is done (or so we decided) and tonight I’m going to a so-called fire-service – a church service featuring a lot of fire-juggling. After that I think I’ll go down to SeniorCity where iBand (the camp’s house-band) will play.
Today’s been a mixed day. I’ve done some work for the last camp paper, as well as five press messages for local medias. We’ve gotten far, and everything just runs smoothly now; it’s a pity it’s over soon. On friday, we’ll help clean the place up and then go to a farewell party for all workers on the camp. We’ll go home later that day.
There’s not much to writer right now. Most participants are out discovering new sides through various fun tasks. Yesterday, I covered one of the tasks, where the children should build towers from 32 wooden bricks. It was quite entertaining, especially because they weren’t allowed to touch the bricks. Instead they had to use a rubber band with four strings attached to it and only touch the strings. One group managed to use all the bricks for one tower, and they earned the highest possible number of points.
And ah… at last a possibility to play some music out loud… I’ve missed that for the last ten days.
Anyway, I’ll stop being asocial in the real life, and stop here. Adieu ’till next time

So… it’s around ten o’clock right now, and I’m sitting in front of our press center with my laptop. Today’s been a quiet day, mainly because many were tired after yesterday’s competition and campfire.
The competition started around 17:30 with an SMS to all camp leaders, that intructed them to gather their children and set off to the big campfire square. There, they all got at message that they were to find out who the culprit that turned the two main characters, Theo and Silje into microbes was. Through a lost of tasks, they gradually eliminated suspects, until only one was left. At that point each group SMS’ed their answer and the quicker the group was, the more points they earned – provided the got the correct answer of course.
The competition ended around midnight, some 6½ hours later, with one of the biggest campfires yet. At the campfire, the culprit was arrested and brought to justice… or so we thought. Turned out that the guilty part wasn’t the one who got the most SMS votes.
After that, we directed our focus towards Theo and Silje. After being turned into microbes, they found themselves in a backpack, and there they met several companions, among those a compass and a swiss knife. And that’s where hell broke loose. some twenty giant spiders entered the stage and took our two heroes captive. In the end, though, they were saved, but what’s really cool about all this is the visual and sound effects, the technicians came up with. Besides several spectral projectors they also got four giant smoke-generators and many green lasers. These lasers, in particular were very cool. They formed a web over our heads at first, symbolising the spiders’ net. Later, they were used for all sorts of tricks… just because we can ;)

Because the campfire didn’t end until one o’clock, everybody slept longer today, and there were no scheduled activities (but various non-mandatory options). I spent most of day finishing articles for local medias throughout the country. After that, I made some news for the camp website. But all in all, today’s just been a relaxed day before tomorrow, when a lot of big things will happen.
Tomorrow, sunday, is the official visitors’ day, where visitors are encouraged to come by and see what the camp is. We’ll have a big church service with up to 25,000 expected partcipants. After that, everyone will be free to show their parents, friends or whoelse might visist them around, or just tsroll around the camp and enjoy the life. A single exceptions is us, the press center. We’ll be focused on the camp newspaper tomorrow, and try to find as many good stories from the day as possible. But I believe it’ll be a cool day nonetheless.
This is the fifth day for me on the camp, and I’m starting to feel a little tired now. I usually get around two to four hours sleep per night, so I look forward to monday, which is my day off here. I think I’ll sleep in that day, and then just visit my friends around the camp. I’ve only met them sporadically up until now.

Today is the first whole day at the camp for all the participants. It has – with a few exceptions – been used to settle the camp and construct various buildings for the rest of the camp. When I say “with a few exceptions”, it’s because there are a few groups who didn’t want to build anything and therefore just spent the day relaxing…
Here at the press center, things were a bit more controlled today. Less stress, more order and a fair chance that we’ll actually finish the newspaper for today. My only task today has been an FDF group (Thyholm) who decided to build two entire houses from their rafts. The two impressive buildings measures 10.5m by 16m and they are about 6 or 7 metres tall at the highest point. All in all it takes a little more than 250 rafts, but once it’s up and running it will feature a bath, a kitchen and a dinnertable for all of the 93 participants at their camp. They brought a water heater as well, huge enough to ensure water for both baths and the kitchen. Yet another story that will be featured in tomorrow’s newspaper.
Last night’s campfire was really great. I think some of the humor were lost on the children, but that’s what you’ll expect from Tue (the guy who wrote most of the manuscript). The SeniorCity-people were just as orange as last time, five years ago. At that time, the local campfire launched a habit that everything should be orange, even their language. It really caught on and has been used fairly the last five years. But now they’re back just as strong as last time. To tell the thruth I believe it’s a pity, because the idea has been used too much now. Enough is enough, but that’s of course their choice.
I met with a few old friends today as well as a couple of classmates. I actually didn’t know one of them was within our organisation, so that was quite a surprise. I found out that one of my friends’ sister work at the press center as well, the world certainly is small (or something… ;) ).
Right now I’m enjoying a mild breeze here in the press center. The weather has cooled of a bit here in the afternoon, and we’ve got a little thunder too. It’s very nice, because it’s actually bearable now.
It seems that my own group finally finished their raft constructions. I spent a few hours last night to help them put a net over their sleeping places. The nets will serve as a sort of matress. I slept outside last night, because the tents were occupied by the children and the “sleep-house” wasn’t finished. Once again, it was actually nice because I didn’t wake up in a blazing hot tent, but instead in a quite temperated morning air with only a faint mist.
There’s no big events tonight except the local campfires in the 9 sub-camps, so I think I’ll use the time to relax a bit and perhaps play some games or read a book – ahh, the relaxed camp-life ;)

Phew, at long last we got the press center running. We arrived yesterday around noon only to find that our building was occupied by a few hundred workers from around the camp. Turned out that we couldn’t get the center before evening because it had to be used as a temporary dinner place for those who work at the camp.
Anyway, after dinner we started to build the place. A few temporary walls and after we’ve moved some tables, chair and more the press center was ready. Some other guys laid out the cables and we set up our hardware… around 70 photographers, journalists and tech guys – that is most certainly a lot of hardware: laptops, desktops, 20″+ crt and lcd monitors, printers, scanners, switches, routers, you name it. We even have a huge radio-controlled airship that will soar above the camp with a webcam and send live from the camp website.
Today two of the press groups (we’re divided into 6 distinct groups) – one of them mine – prepared tomorrow’s camp newspaper: “New Sides”. Deadline was ten minutes ago and we barely scraped the absolute minimum for content. We were _just_ able to fill 4 A3-sized pages. Not good but not too bad either for the first day especially when you consider that we lost half a day yesterday. Our editor is quite stressed due to the inherent workload because the systems we ought to have used aren’t ready yet. Those who were supposed to make it are to busy doing other necessary things… again, lack of time :)
One of the stories for tomorrow’s newspaper tells the story of four guys who walked all the way from Veks� (near Copenhagen) to Sletten (the camp area). That’s approximately 300 kilometers. They started friday and arrived around noon today, tuesday. Impressive!
Hopefully tomorrow will yield a bit more content. I’m pretty confident in that because things start to happen now that everyone’s arrived… or not everyone; there’s around 1,800 participants that doesn’t arrive before sunday or monday or something like that.
Tonight we’re going to the first big campfire with 10,000 participants. It’s not so much a fire as a sophisticated stage show. The events are not official yet but among other things are a backpack, huge enough for some 15 children to stay inside it. These children will be dressed up as various camp equipment. There is also going to be a “slime show”, where a child can nominate a leader from their group to get slimed. Some sort of competition will decide who gets slimed, the nominated or the nominee.

I’ll better get back to work now, although things are not as busy now that the newspaper is done. Tomorrow wil probably be a bit like today, but after tomorrow, my group will be tranferred to the net services, and make stories for the camp website