Days until departure to Vancouver/Whistler: 10 days
To: Nick
Just so you know, I didn't manage to making those business cards that you suggested me to make. I haven't even had the time to buy the card stock to print them out on.
However, I assure you, they are on my long list of things I need to do before I leave Toronto. In fact, they are among one of my more necessary tasks going forward.
It wasn't until this past Monday that I began to feel my departure date to Vancouver (and my second ever plane ride, though first in my memory) creeping in on me. Up until then, the event still felt far away to me, and so I always felt that I'd have plenty more time to get my stuff together and organized to head west.
Now I realized, oh crap, there's only two more weeks left until I have to leave for Vancouver!
Suddenly time seemed to contract in on itself. Now I didn't have enough time. There were millions of things I still had left to do: organize my schoolwork in order to keep from falling behind in my three classes that I am taking this semester at the University of Toronto, call my credit card company to make sure they don't freeze my card when I travel out there, clean my room, prepare my clothes, get batteries... just a multitude of things that come from realizing that you're not as prepared on any issue as you'd like to think.
One of my main concerns is the packing of clothing. I'm based in Toronto, therefore, I have not been accredited nor have I received my uniform. And I won't be getting it until I arrive in Vancouver, or even Whistler. This presents a problem, in that I don't know how warm the components are or how many layers I'd be needing of my own clothing on top of what is given by Vancouver 2010.
Granted, I will have clothes for when I'm not volunteering, but the crux of the issue right now is - should I supply my own snow pants to wear underneath the black pants they will be giving us? However, I do understand that the Whistler Park volunteers will be receiving what may amount to snow pants anyway due to the fact that we're stationed on a mountain.
All I know is that I don't want to be a shivering, miserable human being at Whistler.
The Vancouver Olympics Volunteer team for Whistler Olympic Park did hand a number of suggestion to us Whistler Olympic Park volunteers in what kind of clothes to bring, including:
- Thermal underwear
- good socks
- water-proof winter boots with good treads
- winter gloves
- a warm jacket or vest to wear beneath your games jacket as it's not lined
- hand and feet warmers
I shouldn't be too badly worried I guess. But again, I don't want to be a shivering cold human being during one of the greatest opportunities to share my patriotic pride.
The uniform by the way looks fantastic doesn't it? The colours are extraordinary and just looking at it makes me excited to wear them. I'll try and get some pictures done with me in them.
Cheers!
Grace
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