Received 08/10/2004 17:22

Final rehersal Opening Ceremony

Time: Wednesday morning 1AM
Location: Bits & Bytes - Internet Cafe Athens

We're back, sorry for the delay in the updates, having a busy time here. I'm just back from the final rehersal of the Opening Ceremony. It's amazing, you really need to see this on Friday. The statium was packed with volunteers, at least 40.000 people were present and everything was done like it will be on Friday, including a performance by DJ TIESTO and Icelandic singer Bjork.

What else have I been doing in the last 24 hours? Well, after we got our accreditation and uniform, we went to a local school where we spent 1 hour to convince the Athens 2004 employees to provide us tickets for today's opening ceremony rehersal. We had dinner at Syntagma square and afterwards we went to see the Olympic Complex, it's awesome! The architecture is great, so are the light effects and the fountains.

Tomorrow the real work starts, I need to be at the Aquatic centre by 10am, so it will be an other short night...

PS: Check the newspaper 'Het Laatste Nieuws' of Tuesday August 10 on page 5.