My first day at work - 05.08

I got up pretty tense and somehow nervous simply because I didn't know what to expect at my Job Venue.
In any case, I took a taxi to the WukeSong Sports Center after taking breakfast with Eric and 3 other colleagues from Hong Kong, Spain and South Africa. Again security was very tight as I was thoroughly scanned before being let in.
Since most taxi drivers dont speak English I carry a map of Beijing with me which I always show them. So far this has been working!

Now the WukeSong sports center is the main venue for Baskettball and Baseball.

I called my contact person known as Mu and he asked another guy to come and get me.
He took me through the basketball center and all I could say was WOW! The place is just awesome and I couldn't describe it with words.
In that very moment I met the Argentinien Basketball team coming for their training session.

I got a tad bit excited when I saw Manu Ginobli from the Spurs (NBA).
After my first briefings, I was picked up by a young lady called Zhao who was going to be my main working colleague.
We left for the Baseball center where I was introduced to a bunch of technical experts from Omega who I was going to be working with.

My job is to handle all the IDS sub systems used for diffusing real time data during the competition. This involves monitoring, incident management, data processing, reportings, data analysis, test simulations and also provide Omega with real data. I started working in a test environement and I found out that this job was really going to be extremely demanding simply because there is basically no room for doing mistakes!

I left the office around 6pm to the Hotel and on my way Eric called telling me he and a bunch of guys were not working the next 2 days and had hurriedly plan some trips. I was a bit envious, though!
In any case, I went to the Hotel to get them fix the internet connection so I could finally start posting some messages on my Blog.