Scouting

[okvalle]

Is there any scouts or guides out there?

Let me hear from you!

 

[Uzi_4_U]

I am an Eagle Scout and an assistant scoutmaster as a matter of fact.

 

[okvalle]

Good to hear from you.

I am not active scout at the moment, because I'm staying abroad for one year.
I was group leader for the Salvation Army scouts in the Faroe Island. I also was chief scout for all Faroe Islands scouts the last two years.
Now I'm only the webmaster on www.scout.fo

 

[Uzi_4_U]

Pardon me for asking, but where is Faroe Island?

 

[okvalle]

I can understand that you ask, It is a tiny country in the North Atlantic. See a description from www.exploreworldwide.com here:​

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Lying almost equidistant between Iceland, Norway and Scotland, the Faroe Islands are a dramatic and isolated 18 island archipelago in the North Atlantic. Politically a self-governing region of Denmark, the islands nevertheless have their own language, flag and parliament. The landscape, fashioned by thousands of years of rough seas and harsh weather, is that of towering cliffs and rock pinnacles rising sheer from the ocean, lush, green slopes supporting flocks of hardy sheep, and small picture-postcard villages of unusual turfroofed houses. And then there are the birds, tens of thousands of them – puffins, guillemots, gannets, storm petrels, indeed over 300 species have been identified on the isles.​

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You can find all facts here. http://www.faroeislands.com/​

There are about 1.500 scouts in this tiny country! (population 48.000)​

 

[Polycarp1]

Neat! (FWIW, I was a scout as a kid, and briefly an Assistant Scoutmaster -- dropped out when I had to move away from my hometown, and never returned).

I'm quite interested in the Faeroes, okvalle; my wife collects Scandinavian stamps and has a couple of Faeroese stamps. Do you folks really speak a modern Old Norse? To what extent do Danish laws affect your daily life? Do you consider yourselves Danes, or what, as far as political allegiance goes?

 

[txchristian04]

waiting on my eagle paperwork to come back

 

[okvalle]

Neat! (FWIW, I was a scout as a kid, and briefly an Assistant Scoutmaster -- dropped out when I had to move away from my hometown, and never returned).

I'm quite interested in the Faeroes, okvalle; my wife collects Scandinavian stamps and has a couple of Faeroese stamps. Do you folks really speak a modern Old Norse? To what extent do Danish laws affect your daily life? Do you consider yourselves Danes, or what, as far as political allegiance goes?

Hi Polycarp1
The faroese stamps are rather popoular with collectors (http://www.stamps.fo) Tey are very nice, and easy to collect. The language is something between Icelandic and old Norwegian language, so your'e right. The Danish Laws do not affect the Faroese dayli life much. Foreign politics, the police and the church is under Danish law. The Faroese run the Faroese affairs themselves. They consider themselves Faroese... It is a rather sensitive matter.

Since 1948, the Faroe Islands have been a self-governing region of the Kingdom of Denmark. It has its own parliament and its own flag. It is not, however, a member of the European Union and all trade is governed by special treaties.

I am an Norwegian, but feel like a Faroese

 

[Uzi_4_U]

The North Atlantic? What is the winter weather like?

waiting on my eagle paperwork to come back

ROFL! That does take a while.

 

[okvalle]

Try Yahoo to get the weather,

It rains a lot. 280 days a year. It can be pretty local, so if it rains in one village it adds to the number.
Temp is average +11 degrees during summer and +7 degrees during winter (Celcius)
Last summer we had a record heat of 28 degrees.
The water never freeze because of the Golfstream.

 

[Uzi_4_U]

That sounds kind of like Washington, well most of the time anyway. I am active in Troop 212 in Washington State.

 

[gonleigh]

cool, im a young leader at my local brownie pack, used to be a guide, but never really left brownies.
what do people like about scouting and guiding?