Camper Diary (Mars) - Tuesday 7th August 2007
Campers: Farhaan Sheriff, Shabab Zailai, Ali-Abbas Datoo, Zayn-Ali Walji, Hassan Meghjee, Hassan Kanani, Shuaib Meghji, Muntazir Raza
Mentors: Ali Asgher Rajani, Kazim Dhanji
Our journey began by getting to Stanmore where we were hoping to arrive at 6:45am. Many of us, unfortunately, arrived late due to the early morning traffic. Upon our arrival, we were given workbooks to use for our Islamic studies and made our way to the airport. On arriving at Heathrow Terminal 1 we unloaded the luggage, headed for the check in and boarded the plane. The plane was delayed for 45mins and we were not allowed to choose where we were allowed to sit. We finally landed at Stockholm International Airport. Surprisingly, the blistering heat and smell of rotten fish didn’t help in the delay of the luggage handed back to us. We finally found our luggage and made our way to the camp in the comfy coach, where we were allowed to sit where we liked and this was good.
When we arrived at the camp, we met our current friends and made new friends. The camp looked beautiful in the mid evening sunshine and we all loved it. We offloaded ourselves and our luggage of the camp and were taken to our rooms. We quickly settled and headed for the Namaaz room to recite our Zohr and Asr Namaaz. Our mentors, Ali Asger Bha an Kazim Bha, helped us settle into dinner where we had the lovely chicken curry with rice and bread. We headed back for the Namaaz Room to recite Maghrib and Isha Namaaz. After lasting the humidity of the Namaaz Room, we headed to the PDT room and had a really challenging session where we did some quizzes. We also had an introduction to Health and Safety by Ali Asger Bha and an introduction to Fire Drills by Hussein Ali Bha.
After PDT, we were assisted to our rooms where we got ready for bed. It was around midnight when we realised that we needed as much rest as we could get to go through an exciting and interesting first day at the Sweden Camp. We finally fell asleep…what a day!
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