Soon I will receive my official Olympic credentials! I will have access to the cycling and volleyball venues and the press rooms inside. I learned this at today's Olympic News Service training session. All the international student volunteers met at a hotel conference center with the ONS staff. We learned that just nine hundred fifty-one people work for ONS at this Olympic Games. I am one of these 951 people out of the 70,000 Olympic volunteers selected from nearly 1.4 million applicants. I feel honored and lucky to work here!
After our meeting, Christina, Val, Megan, Kelsey, and I rode the subway to a shopping mall near Tianamen Square. We bought official Beijing Olympic merchandise. From what I've seen, the theme and characters this year (below) beat those of past Olympics.
I mean, check out the Atlanta Olympics' mascot:
Cuddly....?
Aside from those purchases, we bought little but spent much time checking out high-end stores and warehouses of trinkets alike. Fun!
1 comment:
haha! now that u put it that way, what the heck was Atlanta's mascot? none the less, sounds like a BLAST!
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