(please right-click foto and open in new window for more fotos)Officially, today is our last day and the agenda is to have an official group foto and an after-games party.
For the group fotos we are all to appear in our full uniforms but we had the option to change for the party.
Taking the group foto was tedious since we were a large group of over 400 people.
It took over an hour to get this done. People from different groups and groups of individuals who linked well took the opportunity to take fotos as well.
After the foto session we travelled in different buses for about one and a half hours outside of Beijing for the after-games party.
I guess a lot of people were a bit enraged due to the long trip but as soon as we got to the location every single one of us was overwhelmed. We were met by group of chinese drummers who performed to welcome us.
The location,the decorations and the food were absolutely fantastic.
In his speech, Mr. Adiba (our olympic CEO) showered praises and congratulations on us for all our efforts and mentioned that we had delivered perfectly and each one of us had a reason to be proud.
I got back to the hotel around 2am in the morning, had to wake up at 7am because my flight was at 10am. I was picked up at around 7.30am and on my way to the airport I reflected on my last 3 weeks in Beijing. As I digged into the last 3 weeks, I was absolutely convinced that this, indeed, has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.
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