All is on track

Yesterday, March 30th, the end of the IOC, after reviewing the facilities and organisation, said the following: 

London Ready to Host 'Outstanding Event,'

Remember Athens and the near fiasco, seem like we will avoid it! yi haaa,

If the organisation of the actual volunteer training is anything to go by, i really believe the IOC is right: it is ever so smooth and flexible (well 90% of it :-))

Last Saturday, i went to Module 3 which focused on Village training, ie get to understand how the Olympic village functions ( I would like to remind you that is where yours truly is going to be based this summer for 5 weeks....OMG) what it does and doesn't deliver and mostly to emphasize that is really a "home away from home" for athletes. there is no press or public allowed in the 3 villages so athletes can really relax and have everything mostly within walking distance. The Stratford Village in London ( where i ll be) will be converted into flats after the games. They showed us how they have been furnishing and modifying the housing to make this work, fulfilling the needs of the IOC and the athletes in the meantime...quite clever if i may say so myself!!

They also did a team exercise where we had to build the tallest tower out of 20 pieces of spaghetti, a marshmallow, a piece of string and some scotch tape....that was super fun, and my team came in second best, at the astounding height of 68cm...Try it at home, it s fun and makes your brain work.

actually quite a bit has happened so i ll put up another post in the next couple of days....

The in-between period.

So barely 3 weeks ago i had a my last training session an i m ust admit that i have gone into withdrawal....my next session is on March 24th or something and in the meantime i need to feed myslef with other Olympics related trivia.

Thank goodness it was my birthday last week and my friends seem to have caught on to my games madness and i receive an offical London 2012 mug and a a book on the British Olympics amongst other things...i'm thinking i should probably erect a trophy wall or something to pull all these tings together.

I've also been receiving emails from my bosses and in particular the one about driving...i had to go through an online training at work, which i didn t do brilliantly at i must say ( although passed everything, rest assured  am not a crazy driver) and so now they have recommended a whole series of exercises for me to prepare with. The actual real life driving test will happen in April and before that i am defintely going to borrow a couple of friends cars to drive round parkings and get used to shifting gears with the "wrong" hand...nothing to overstress about i 'm sure but i'm keen to get it over with.

In parallel we are receiving through email our training materials from previous courses which is fun as i can revise and go through them again...fell like i m an overenthusiastic teenager sometimes!

Starting to panic about the fact that i really don t know anything about sports, so am going to reread "How to watch the Olympics" and have been forcing myself to read a couple of sports articles a day to keep abreast of who is who and what is happening. LOTS to learn.

that's all for the moment people, will be back soon i m sure.