Killing Time

Sorry about a lack of a post yesterday. It was my first day working...if you could call it that. I'm on the relief crew which means if someone drops out at a venue, we're sent to replace them. So far about half of our crew is assigned to a venue for the next few days; but the rest of us are sitting at the International Broadcast Centre waiting to go out. Like being a firefighter. Needless to say we have a lot of downtime right now and I didn't bring my laptop with me to the IBC. The Opening Ceremonies are tomorrow. So hopefully we'll start seeing some action soon.

We've been using some of our downtime to tour some of the venues that we may be working in. Yesterday we took a look in the Speed Skating Oval (see photo above) right next door to the Main Media Centre (where the IBC is located) While we were there, the Chinese, Italian, German and a few from the Canadian teams were doing practice skates. It's a great facility! Today we checked out the Palavela rink where the figure skating competitions will be held. Again proof that I was actually there.

We got to watch a French skater and Russian figure skater rehearse their routines.

As you can see they've supplied us with some very sweet swag. A jacket, fleece, two polo shirts, gloves, toque, scarf, backpack, duffle bag, pants...I'm sure there's more. All for us to keep after the games. The jackets are really warm, but it hasn't been that cold in the city to need it.