The Fair is in Town

This week in Gibraltar is the busiest for most people and organizations in Gibraltar as it is National Week leading up National Day. National Day is the biggest party Gibraltar has -  it is even bigger than New Years but more on it will come as we get closer to the date. This week the Gibraltar Fair is in town.

The Scout group I am in decided to put a stall in this year’s fair in order to raise funds for the group and we came up with the idea of a climbing wall. We built it in just 3 days and just in time for the fair which started  last Friday.

The climbing wall has proved to be popular with the children and sometimes I wonder whether some of them maybe have some monkey genes in them as they seem to be natural born climbers. We have also managed to attract an audience of people who don’t want to give it a try but at least like to see other do it.

We also decided to do a climbing wall to open Scouting to the masses of kids and adults at the fair and it is proving to be quite a good tool for recruitment as we have seen many children sign up after trying the climb.

Of course, not everything has been all work on our stall - we still have had some good laughs whilst working on it. On Saturday night we had a group of 3 teenagers trying to race up the wall with a funny outcome - one of them lost his shoes on the way. One of the leaders has also come up with a game for us after we have closed for the night - to try and tap as many rocks on the wall without moving one of your hands. It sounds simple enough but it is a test of strength and flexibility – it is much trickier (and more fun) than it sounds.

We still have 5 more nights – I will not be there every night but I am sure I will enjoy it every time I am there. And if you are from Gibraltar, feel free to come and say hi at the fair or try our climbing wall!