Two days in

Well, a gentle start to the volunteer experience, my Team Manager suggested that the afternoon would be a good start time, so I managed to schedule in my uniform collection beforehand to get my accreditation, Shoes(&socks) and Volunteer t-shirts, plus hat and a travel card to help towards our costs of getting to and from shifts (very welcome support).

The afternoon was spent helping to set up the Team recovery room, which is alongside the warm up track. The room itself needed a lot of clearing first as had become a dumping group for a lot of the equipment, but by the time we left it was looking more like you could relax in it. (We did manage to fill another room with the stuff we moved, will be interesting to find out if that room too needed to be cleared eventually, I may find out at some point later in the proceedings)

We then headed back to the "office base" to start sorting the welcome packs for the Team Athletes arriving during the day on Tuesday. It was a case of matching the accreditation with an information sheet and putting them into envelopes ready for collection. Didn't quite get to finish as some laminating was required, which meant having to go to an off site office to get done.

Was back in the morning to finish off, and then sort out those arriving today so we could add room keys and hand them out when they got here.


This task got interrupted by the arrival of luggage from some of the athletes that had been out training in Paris, naturally as we brought them in I had to organise them into alphabetical order, which made it so much easier to find later.

Then a trip on the Javelin High Speed rail link from Stratford across to St Pancras to meet and greet the athletes coming from Paris who were travelling by Eurostar. We then herded them back onto the Javelin and headed them back to the athletes lounge at the hotel, while Amanda the Team Manager headed off to try and get the rooms sorted.

By the time my shift finished we had matched most of the athletes with both rooms and luggage. Phew!

We had a visit from Whizzbee the Para Mascot. So just had to get a piccie. He was hovering round for a while to see if he could get piccies with some of the athletes, before Buzzing off to another location.

More athletes arriving tomorrow, and it's a training day for many, so they'll be heading to the training venue to keep themselves honed for when the competition starts.

Who knows what tasks will be on the menu tomorrow, but it's certainly going to be varied.

Right, Buzzing off for now :-)