HMD09: Stand Up To Hatred

This is the morning after.

I had my worries about the theme and content of last night's programme. It's hard to fit everything you want to say about the Holocaust into 45 minutes. It's also hard to find your level of delivery when you have an age range of 5 years. I was also worried about keeping the tone right with the Scouts; all too often when you want to talk to a room of more than 30 Scouts you can find it hard to make yourself heard. It's more case of enthusiasm than any kind of mischief in most cases.

The compliments start here. Props to everyone who volunteered to read an excerpt from the presentation. There were some pretty brave attempts at pronouncing the trickier Polish names (Marsolkowska Street anyone?) and some readings that showed a true understanding of the subject matter. The responses to the short questionnaire were honest, funny and inciteful and showed a greater maturity in some areas than I would reasonably expect; not that I am saying anyone is immature, but the exercise deliberately left the door open to a bit of mucking about. I was also impressed at the quetions we were asked towards the end - it proved to me that the Holocaust remains a truly mind-boggling thing to fit into your head.

So we'll shelf the serious stuff for the next couple of weeks and turn our attention towards the Gang Show and Winter Camp.

Thanks everyone. Tonight made me proud.