19th Aug: Scavenger hunt, Skit, Chair-making

Date: 19th Aug 2006

Today we had an action packed meeting where we had to perform 3 activities simultaneously within a time span of one and a half hours.
This meeting was purposely done in such a manner so that the PL's get acquainted with distributing work among their patrol efficiently.
The meeting kicked off in style with a highly entertaining but unexpected game of caterpillars. The ties for this game were as follows :

P1 vs P4
(P4 bt P1, 10-7)
&
P2 vs P3
(P2 bt P3, 15-13)

P2 vs P4 for first place
(P4 bt P2)
&
P1 vs P3 for third place
(P1 bt P3)

Game standings: P4, P2, P1, P3.

To follow, we had to perform 3 activities simultaneously (as mentioned earlier). These activities were Scavenger hunt, Skit and making a chair out of any material available in the scout den.

The list of Scavenger hunt Items are as follows. ( note that this list is prone to errors ). The numbers next to the items denote the weightage of points they carry.

Egg 2
Live animal 5
Live insect 2
Bone of any animal 4
Hair band 3
Times of India ( today's .ie. 19th Aug) 1
Leaves of 3 different colors 2
Fused Bulb 5
Key & a lock ( should be matching ) 2
C.D. ( of any kind )1
Bournvita bottle 2
Mickey Mouse Watch 1
5 coins (2 of 25p, 2 of 10p,1 of 10p) 5
3 marbles 2.5
1 postal stamp 3

We had to make a chair out of any material we could find in the scout den. The use of lashings and knots was necessary. In this competition, P4 came first as they made a chair by tying 3 bamboos on the back of box and adding a back support to it which was really comfortable and steady. The other patrol performances will soon be updated.

The skit was probably the most thrilling, enjoyable and most anticipated activity of the meeting. It was also the last activity. The skit topic was open and all the 4 patrols came up with action-packed comedies but with some silent and inaudible performances. It was first the turn of patrol 1, who made a comedy on how Himesh Reshamiyya gets kidnapped and how a police inspector who can't speak but can only sing (quite amusing, isn't it?) comes to his rescue after being informed by two Siamese about the kidnappers whereabouts. But since he hates Reshamiyya's music, he leaves him alone in the place and goes.Their conclusion could be understood but only by some people.

Then it was patrol4 who made a skit without a conclusion you could say. It was about two deaf and blind friends who are speaking to the commissioner about some murder case.
Patrol1 then copied last year's skit played in the major camp by patrol 9 about 3 friends who on going on a vacation to Goa come across a magical pond and on jumping in that pond and screamin ga wish the wish could be fulfilled. The first guy asks for wealth, the second asks for babes and while in a dilemma of what to choose, the third guy is pushed into the pond by a drunkard with his last word being shit!
Patrol2 then came up with a rather unclear skit on the madness of a sardar in the army. In order to get a holiday, he exchanges a tank from a Pakistani sardar so that both the sardars get a holiday.

After this the troop dispersed and the meeting ended with a council meeting.

scores
p1 = -62
p2 = 136
p3 = 95
p4 = 476

-Ishan Sadwelkar