Saturday, December 09, 2006
Sunday December 10th 2006 
It was another busy day at the MPC yesterday. I think some of my volunteers are already feeling that the end is very close. Saad gives me a commemorative plate of Doha 2006 with the 45 flags of the countries represented :..."So that when you go home, you remember Saad." he says. "Saad" I tell him "You don't need to buy me anything. I'll never forget you."
And how could I forget any of this. Sameera Ibrahim, another volunteer who is a year older than me and has 6 children comes back this morning after a day off and says: "I've missed you yesterday" she says.
Well, the games continue and it continues to be constantly busy during the day but I've started writting my final report which is due on the 16th and have been told yesterday that by the 18th we should all be off until we leave. So that is exciting news.
Last night Lorraine tells Kisane and me to leave before 6pm and so we both go and catch a movie a City Centre shopping centre. I want to see the new James Bond movie :Casino Royale but she wants to see a romantic comedy so we see "The Holiday". It's Ok but by the time we leave I feel I've only seen half of the movie as parts have been cut out and the picture and sounds keeps jumping because of it. Any parts which can be seen to be unappropriate have been removed. Mobile phones keep going off as no one seems to shut them off. People are talking together. It's all very interesting but it's nice to go out and do something different and still get back not to late.
There is only a few days to go. Doha is in the race to bid for the summer Olympics of 2016 and this effort with the Asian games and the fantastics sporting venues they have acquired has definately been done with this in mind. They have shown the world already now that they have Olympic class facilities and we are running a multi sport event with 39 sports which exceeds the number of sports at Summer Olympics.
Bye for now
It was another busy day at the MPC yesterday. I think some of my volunteers are already feeling that the end is very close. Saad gives me a commemorative plate of Doha 2006 with the 45 flags of the countries represented :..."So that when you go home, you remember Saad." he says. "Saad" I tell him "You don't need to buy me anything. I'll never forget you."
And how could I forget any of this. Sameera Ibrahim, another volunteer who is a year older than me and has 6 children comes back this morning after a day off and says: "I've missed you yesterday" she says.
Well, the games continue and it continues to be constantly busy during the day but I've started writting my final report which is due on the 16th and have been told yesterday that by the 18th we should all be off until we leave. So that is exciting news.
Last night Lorraine tells Kisane and me to leave before 6pm and so we both go and catch a movie a City Centre shopping centre. I want to see the new James Bond movie :Casino Royale but she wants to see a romantic comedy so we see "The Holiday". It's Ok but by the time we leave I feel I've only seen half of the movie as parts have been cut out and the picture and sounds keeps jumping because of it. Any parts which can be seen to be unappropriate have been removed. Mobile phones keep going off as no one seems to shut them off. People are talking together. It's all very interesting but it's nice to go out and do something different and still get back not to late.
There is only a few days to go. Doha is in the race to bid for the summer Olympics of 2016 and this effort with the Asian games and the fantastics sporting venues they have acquired has definately been done with this in mind. They have shown the world already now that they have Olympic class facilities and we are running a multi sport event with 39 sports which exceeds the number of sports at Summer Olympics.
Bye for now
# posted by AdeC @ 9:22 PM 
