Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Village

We have finally arrived in Delhi after our week long training camp in Abu Dhabi.  The city is very interesting, if it was not for our special lane for Games vehicles it may have taken about four hours to get from the airport to the village.  The village is AMAZING! It is easy to tell that India wanted everything to be perfect but it just didn't happen so easily.  Our support staff say it gets better everyday.  The New Zealand towers are definately the best towers out of all the countries.  We are using the 29028 (the height in feet of Everest) Hillary and Tenzing motto for motivation and inspiration for our 2010 team.  It is very moving and makes me want to do absolutely everything in my races to perform well.  The food hall is very big and has many different nationality food options.  Support staff have been here for 2 weeks now and have not yet had any sicknesses which is promising.  Have to head to the pool now for first time, will be good to check out.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Penelope.

    We've all been watching you race - its really exciting to watch. We had a very long afternoon tea on Monday to see the heats - don't tell your Dad!!

    Keep doing your best.

    Kathy

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  2. Hi Penelope,

    Congratulations on winning a silver medal! You have made the staff at BNZ very proud and undoubtedly the rest of New Zealand.

    Kurt Tyson

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