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Thirty Days
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 06:55 pmIt's only 30 days to the Olympics. That's 30 days until the opening ceremony on the Friday evening, the early rounds of the football start in 28 days.
WHOA. It's getting exciting and bizarre and unreal and all-too-real. Because I'm so close to one of the football venues I might have to look into travel timings & so on, I mean when there were hordes of people going to the stadium for concerts it was a pain but it was manageable, I'm hoping it won't be majorly worse than that. I want to be excited about it all.
The latest excitement is that I have claimed my ticket to attend the tech rehearsal of the opening ceremony on the Monday before the Olympics begins! I got this because I applied to be a GamesMaker (ie a volunteer) but I'm on a waitlist, so this is in thanks for applying and sorry we haven't been able to find you a GamesMaker spot yet. It's just for me and I've no idea how good a seat I'll get, plus it will entail spending more money on train tickets and a hotel room for the night, but it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so I hope it all works out OK.
It's so strange to think it's getting so close. It seemed that all through my teenage years the UK was bidding to host the Olympics, and it was becoming a bit of a joke that we kept bidding and never got anywhere. And then we did win, I can still remember the feeling when London was announced as the host. I really hope all goes well and that in time we will have a fabulous Games to look back on.
WHOA. It's getting exciting and bizarre and unreal and all-too-real. Because I'm so close to one of the football venues I might have to look into travel timings & so on, I mean when there were hordes of people going to the stadium for concerts it was a pain but it was manageable, I'm hoping it won't be majorly worse than that. I want to be excited about it all.
The latest excitement is that I have claimed my ticket to attend the tech rehearsal of the opening ceremony on the Monday before the Olympics begins! I got this because I applied to be a GamesMaker (ie a volunteer) but I'm on a waitlist, so this is in thanks for applying and sorry we haven't been able to find you a GamesMaker spot yet. It's just for me and I've no idea how good a seat I'll get, plus it will entail spending more money on train tickets and a hotel room for the night, but it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so I hope it all works out OK.
It's so strange to think it's getting so close. It seemed that all through my teenage years the UK was bidding to host the Olympics, and it was becoming a bit of a joke that we kept bidding and never got anywhere. And then we did win, I can still remember the feeling when London was announced as the host. I really hope all goes well and that in time we will have a fabulous Games to look back on.
