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Source: CCTV.com
07-29-2008 08:28
March, 2007, There are still five hundred days to go before the curtain is drawn on Beijing’s Olympic games. The most popular phrase on the streets has been: Become an Olympic volunteer.
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Today, there are exactly five hundred days to go before the Olympics. At the crack of dawn, sixty year old retired worker Wu Yalan hurries to the gate of Chaoyang Park.
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For the last few days, every district in Beijing has been holding different kinds of “participate in the Olympics”-themed activities. Of these, the march of ten thousand people in Chaoyang Park is the largest in scale. To participate in todays activities, Mrs. Wu had to sign up two weeks in advance.
Nine o’clock in the morning, accompanied by rhythmic drum beats, the march officially begins.
Each team please follow my directions. Please advance in the proper order.
Being a senior citizen over sixty, Mrs. Wu no longer resembles the energetic youngster she once was. There’s still no reason she can’t join in today, however, and Wu is very excited at the prospect.
To everyone living in Beijing, the Olympics is like a grand meeting about to take place in their home.
Today, the on-site service personnel is staffed entirely by volunteer applicants. Since the decision to hold the Olympics in Beijing was finalized, Mrs. Wu has had a wish: She wants to do something for the Olympics but she still isn’t quite sure were to start from.
Wu Yalan has enjoyed sports since her youth. She has always thought that only those who are physically fit should be eligible to become an Olympic volunteer. A year ago, she started roller skating. Her greatest wish is that, come the Olympic games in 2008, she can skate around, showing Beijing to our foreign friends from around the world.
In wake of the approaching Olympic games, more and more people are beginning to pay close attention to Olympic-related activities. Among them, the volunteer recruitment program in particular lends itself well to attention. Since the official appearance of Olympic volunteers at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, becoming a volunteer and seeing the games up close and personal has been the dream of many. But for Chinese people participating in the Olympics for the first time, the question is: how can you become a real volunteer if you still don’t really know how? And what exactly is it that the volunteers actually do?
This is Chongwen District’s Olympic welcome. The use of bicycles was suggested to publicize a green Beijing . There are three small bicycles that look especially out of the ordinary. Although from appearance alone, one wouldn’t find any too obvious of a difference, in the hands of these youths,the bikes are handled extremely well, often attracting looks from passers-by.
