I remember being SO INTO the Sydney 2000 Olympics, we got an extra week off school (and as a teacher that was bliss), i went to every event i could afford (we bought my swimming mad grandparents finals tickets, and in Australia, swimming is our figure skating!), watched the torch relay and loved every minute of it! Sydney was really cynical leading up to it, we were all "it is going to suck, we are going to be broke, it is going to be cringeworthy" and then it happened and IT WAS AWESOME!!! So much so that when it looked like Athens wasn't going to be ready we started volunteering to have their Olympics for them in 2004 ;)
All the primary schools in the greater sydney region were given tickets to the paralympics (since the other olympics were during school holidays) and as a high school teacher i was so bummed out because i thought it would be awesome to go!
(Interestingly i remember have a great laugh when security hauled me out of the bathrooms at the opening ceremony for taking too long to put on sunscreen - their concern was 1) i was setting a bomb or 2) i was taking drugs! We all laughed at the bomb stuff, and then one year and one day later was the september 11 attacks, a little bit of me wonders what the intelligence agencies were hearing!)
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All the primary schools in the greater sydney region were given tickets to the paralympics (since the other olympics were during school holidays) and as a high school teacher i was so bummed out because i thought it would be awesome to go!
(Interestingly i remember have a great laugh when security hauled me out of the bathrooms at the opening ceremony for taking too long to put on sunscreen - their concern was 1) i was setting a bomb or 2) i was taking drugs! We all laughed at the bomb stuff, and then one year and one day later was the september 11 attacks, a little bit of me wonders what the intelligence agencies were hearing!)