This morning in Amsterdam
we started the day off by getting divided up into groups and we had to map out and locate one of
our work venues. My group consisted of myself, Heidi, and Solera and we our
work venue was Olympiaplein which is a huge put door sports complex that had a
skate park, two full size soccer fields, a gym and tennis courts.
After
that a small group of us went on a tour of the original Heineken brewery and we
learned about how the history behind the Heineken name. Heineken was founded in
1873 by Gerrad Adriaan Heineken when he was just fifteen years old. Heineken is
available in more that seventy countries and Heineken beer only contains three
ingredients. We got to see some of the of the original bottles they used when
they started producing the beer and also got a lesson on the process they use
to produce the beer. We stopped by the gift shop on the way out and they had
glass mugs that you could purchase and what was really cool was you could get
engraving on your mug which made for some great gifts.
After
the tour we met up with everyone and we attended the opening ceremonies for the
European Athletic Championships were we got to see different representatives
for each of fifty countries competing in the games. Tonight we have our
volunteer training and then tomorrow the fun begins as we will spend the next
five days’ working the games.
5000
& 10000 Meters are long distance running competitions in track and field
and have been events since 1912. The 5000M (3.1 Miles) consists of twelve and a
half laps around the track and the 10000M (6.2) miles) consists of twenty-five
laps. Kenenisa Bekele holds the current world record for both the 5000M and
10000M with times of 12:37 (5000) and 26:17 (10000).
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