First shift in the park!!

Today was our first chance to get inside the Olympic Park in full Games Maker kit, as promised the atmosphere in the park was immense! We met as two separate groups in Welwyn and Ware to travel up to the park, after some fond fairwells to parents we began our journey up to Stratford!

We made our way through the park to the Olympic Stadium, and on to the field of play, where we had a round of team photos in our Games Maker kit before splitting into two separate groups to practice our tie-down training. 'Team A' consisting of Aaron, Connor, James, Lucy and Tom were first up, and were asked to demonstrate to the other schools how the role was to be done. 'Team B' Alex, Ella, Simon, Dotun and the Liam's then had a turn at showing the other teams.

After our training we headed to the workforce area to sample the food and to prepare for the upcoming events. We were lucky enough to spend the evening inside the stadium, we spent the first half of the evening standing and enjoying the sports, before we were lucky enough to find some spare seats, allowing us to enjoy the Pristorius and Weir races! The atmosphere and the shouts from the crowd during the Weir race in particular was electric, and will remain in our memories for a long time!

Connor and I also experienced the local cuisine when we purchased 5 chicken things for £1! Yes you herd us right, £1, needless to say we were highly impressed with the local culinary tastes and are looking forward to sampling more local delicacies.

Our first shifts tomorrow begins at 17:00 where we are volunteering in the first pool of the shot put, we may be live on channel 4 so keep an eye out!