I believe a good starting point was not the day you arrived, but the Day you all left (hopefully that did not sound too bad!) I say this because I actually noted a few words down in a journal I was keeping during my holiday to Lebanon. It was written as follows: (this is only an extract) I believe today's date is the 23rd of August (which was not true, but I really was not sure at the time), I am sad because all of the French boys have left. They arrived about a month ago and since then I have been out with them on many day trips to sights in Lebanon. There hospitality has brought us all close. They left last night back to Paris...

I exchanged addresses and phone numbers with 10 of them, and also have received 5 e-mail addresses from them. I hope we keep in touch.

I still remember the first time I actually saw you all. Abouna Charbel called me on the phone and asked if Riad (remember my cousin!) and I would like to go to Souur-i don't know how to spell it, anyway, Riad was too busy partying, but as usual I was up for anything Lebanon had to offer (besides stinking hot non-airconditioned buses with maniac drivers and broken radio systems. hahahaha!)

So I told him I would come along, all the while not expecting a whole group of French boys all around my age to be in Lebanon, let alone on the same bus! So I boarded the bus and automatically felt very embarrassed and self conscious, as most people would, but you all surely changed that, by the time the trip came to an end, I seriously did not want to get off the bus and say goodnight. You were all so nice, and remain to be.

So a month progressed each week seemed to become shorter and shorter, I think you would agree, and I was sure now that when you all left I would also go back home, to Australia that is, because I had not made any friends in Jiye before you came, I was to busy relaxing at the beach.....wow......imagine the beach in Lebanon now, oh how I ache to go back, my friends tell me its still warm over there now, unlike Australia - I can't believe summer has started here and I am still wearing a jumper!

 So I will end my letter here, as I can not think of anything of great importance to write, and wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you, abouna Charbel, and thank you all so much for a great holiday, and I look forward to seeing you all when I go to Paris, in 2000.

Le Scoutisme se vie partout, a tout moment...

Que se soit pendant les temps de service, les temps de repos ou les Heures Routes ou nous prenions du recul sur notre vie, nous vivions en scouts...

Durant notre camp, plusieurs routiers ont pris des engagements personnels: l'engagement Compagnon Routier, precisant que l'on desire vivre avec l'ideal routier toute notre vie, et la Promesse Scoute, l'engagement que prend chaque scout du monde entier, jurant de faire de son mieux pour observer la Loi Scoute et servir son prochain !