Shift 1 – Sunday 25 th March My first shift was very relaxed and I met lots of interesting people. There were 3 other volunteers on the bus, so we walked in together from the Wet’n’wild bus stop. At check-in they gave us a card to track our “rewards”, the first of which was a Games Shapers pin to put on our accreditation lanyard. There were 2 other people there from the tech team – a lady from Toowoomba with an accounting background and a man who works for Virgin in their tech department. My manager, Pavel, who is out here from Russia for the Games, told us that he wanted us to wander the venue and get familiar with all of the buildings. He printed us out some site plans, both a high level plan and a detailed plan of each building, and we spent about 1.5 hours wandering in and out of each building trying to find all of the areas where various tech elements would be in use. The venue is looking amazing and is becoming more colourf...
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