On Friday, July 13th, I went with 20 scouts to Amman to celebrate the 100th anniversary of scouting. In 1903, English Lord Baden Powell wrote a manual for military scouts that was subsequently used by youth scout groups. With encouragement from his friends, Baden-Powell was convinced to re-write the guide for youth scouts. In 1907, he held a scout camp for 22 kids of mixed social backgrounds to test whether his ideas about scouting would work or not. The result of his youth scout guidebook was a major pickup in scout groups and a general scout movement. Hence, Baden-Powell is generally recognized as the founder of scouting.

Patriarch (Arch-Bishop, basically) Mgr. Michael Sabbah said mass, and there were lots of other ministers giving each other all sorts of shiny medals. Pretty standard ceremonial stuff. At least they played music we could dance to for a while.

The day was fun enough, but really tiring. I love the kids, but after 12 hours I was glad to have time to myself in Al-Husn.

Today we had a crazy water-balloon fight. I'll post the video later today.