Saturday February 20
What is Olympic Games? It is an event that starts 2550 days to plan, 16 days to execute and a few months to close up. It has 5500 athletes and officials taking part in 14 sports with 86 competitons being transmitted to 3 000 000 000 TV viewers with 2 400 000 spectators. It is the most complex event in the world.
But most of all it is meeting with people across cultures and languages opening up for new input and lessons learned.
What happends when a Norwegian is placed between two eager Canadians at a hockey match? She learns about all the details hocekylover Canadians know about hockey.
What happends when you buy pepper potatoes in the break? The waiter hand over the food, smiles and says: "Have fun and enjoy the Game!"
What happends on a croweded bus on its way to downtown Vancouer? Another person - of course a Canadian - starts talking to you about how key it is to keep your patience on a full bus, how great the Olympics are and why this street is a nice shopping area.
What happends when they check your accreditation card at the Olympic Family Hotel as you enter? The security lady says: "Super. You have the number 6; just what I was looking for. Enjoy your day!"
What happends when your Olympic car stops in the middle of the street in order to let you out making a traffic jam? The police man says teasingly: "Oh you're messing up my line here...." And then laughs.
Some of my Canadian friends are pleasantly surprised about themselves; that everyone is so positive. I think it is just the nature of Olympic Games coming through......
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Sounds like great fun! Very interesting reading material. Keep up the good work, Bente!
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