The London 2012 Games... Part 2
It's time for the second installment of Sara Ann Hope's 2012 Games diary (missed the first part? Scroll down to read it!)
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Friday August 3rd, Shift
5: 6am – 2.30pm
Amy lost the
key to the cupboard full of keys this morning. It was like searching for a
needle in a stack of needles, only less… pointy.
Got sent
home sick from shift today which wasn’t very fun but on the plus side did get
to watch a commentator try to talk about a volleyball game between Germany and
Germany. He resorted to saying ‘brown-haired Germans’ and ‘blonde Germans’ just
to differentiate.
This is
seriously one of the weirdest jobs I’ve ever had- and I’ve worked with small
children.
Saturday August 4th, Shift
6: 2pm – 11pm
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| Checking the Volley Ball Stadium doesn't blow away! |
Left monitoring two venues again today as we
have the Men’s Race Walk on The Mall. Race Walk – the only race you can win by
acting like a duck. It was extremely distracting trying not to laugh.
Today I
learnt how to calculate wind speeds so that the volleyball court doesn’t blow
away. It may seem silly but as it’s only a temporary venue we have to be
careful it doesn’t get too bad and do a ‘Wizard of Oz’. Shame about it being
temporary but I kind of see the point – the Prime Minister probably wants his
garden back.
Amy found an
incident in today’s log noting injured wildlife found at another venue - A
pigeon named Harold sadly passed away at 11.45am. He clearly lived long enough
to be named though so it’s not totally depressing news. Like I said, weirdest
job ever.
I wish you
could have seen the VCC’s (venue Control Centre's) reaction to Ennis and Farrah winning their races. The
place went mental!! Naturally we had cake and chocolate to celebrate. Very
pleased I got to share the moment with other people and not just alone in my
flat.
Sunday August 5th, Shift
7: 5pm – 1am
Shift off to
a great start as I set off all the metal detectors and have to be frisked by
one of the soldiers. Forgot to remove my belt buckle like a complete fool –
still at least it shows our security teams are on the ball.
Only four
shifts left now! Can’t believe it’s all going so quickly.
Bit of
excitement in the VCC tonight as we are all put on blue alert after a bomb
scare. Some idiot from the newspaper grabbed his bag as it was going through
the X-ray machine and ran off into the night pursued by several burly
policemen. He didn’t get away with it for long and we all cheered as we saw him
get frogmarched back to the checkpoint on the CCTV.
Nothing
malicious to report, but still quite exciting behind the scenes here. Made even
better by the fact that no one except us knew what happened – We are just THAT
good at our jobs, haha.
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| Modelling the Games Maker uniform waterproof! |
Tuesday August 7th, Shift
8: 1pm – 9pm
Prince Harry
was in the house tonight – though I suppose it was to be expected as we are
kind of working in his granny’s back garden.
Also had
David Beckham, with three cute little boys in tow- as opposed to Harry’s
decidedly un-cute and frankly rather terrifying army of body guards.
Wednesday August 8th,
Shift 9: 4.30pm – 11.30pm
MIKA
performed today and as the only one in the VCC who knew who he was I was the
only one singing along. Not even
going to pretend to be embarrassed because I GOT TO WATCH MIKA!!
Tea was a
cheese and appleslaw sandwich. Who is doing our catering, Heston Blumenthal?
Saturday August 11th,
Shift 10: 1.30pm – 8.30pm
Clare Balding replied to my tweet today inviting me along to Greenwich Park to say
thank you for my work. She’s invited loads of the GMs to say thanks live on air
which would be totally amazing. That and of course I’d get to meet Clare
Balding who is fantastic, win/win.
Yet more
sweets and ice cream today – think once I’ve finished I’ll go into immediate
sugar withdrawal.
Just the
Women’s Race Walk and Men’s Marathon to go… I don’t want to go back to reality!
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Come back for the thirds and final installment of Sara's Olympics Adventures next week- same time, same place!
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