House Duty...Again!

"In all of this, it is the spirit that matters."

-Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Today for the second day I was on house duty, so more scrubbing toilets and washing sinks/floors, and we finished deep cleaning the Dutch Room. After the Dutch Room we then moved to the Canadian Room (I know, I can't believe it either. There is actually a Canadian Room!).

I guess I should explain, for every room in the Old Chalet (the building is divided up into 2 areas new and old chalets) they are named after sponsering organizations. So we have a Dutch Room, a German Room, Australian Room, United States Room (of course its the biggest), and yes a Canadian Room! Although all other rooms have been renovated in the last 10 years except the Canadian Room because Scouts Canada won't give money to renovate it (for some odd reason), and just to give you an idea on how old it is, it has a copy of the the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, wooden snow shoes, old photos of Alberta, a photo of Dawson City, and a frozen Klondike River (Yukon), and here is the kicker.... it has a photo of the Right Honourable Mr. Ray Hnatyshyn and his wife (so 1989-1990). I don't know about you but if you look at the Canadian room compaired to the others it looks out of date. According to Geoff (the other Calgarian) we tried petitioning national council for funds but got denied.

Anyway, house was ok after cleaning this afternoon we started sewing plastic knobs onto curtins for the new Kanderlodge. It was all fun we sewed, talked and listened to music. Tomorrow I am on Kanderlodge duty and so I get to use the power tools and build it! Saturday I am on "Duty" and Kanderlodge so I get to carry around a phone on off hours, no alcohol (not that that is a problem) and Sunday Catering. Tomorrow is also Staff night out and I heard through the grape vine that we are going Curling!! Exciting times. Can't wait.

I think I should post some photos this post round just so everyone can get an idea of what its like here. Y0u might also find attached a video from myswitzerland.com (Swiss travel website) about Switzerland I hope to make it to the hot pools sometime this winter/spring... well while there is still snow on the ground so it makes it exciting. Well I can't find the video right now but once I do I will be sure to post it