Monthly Archives: August 2012

“Back in the day” I spent two years living in Japan and teaching English.  That was before the 1998 Nagano Olympics, and way back then I dreamed that I would somehow find my way back to Japan and volunteer at those games, maybe doing some translating work or general hospitality stuff.  Fast forward to 2005 […]

A lot of people have asked if as a volunteer we got free tickets to the opening ceremony.  The short answer? NO!  We were able to enter a contest for free tickets to the rehearsals, but for the actual opening ceremony we were left to our own devices. For me that meant attending the PUMA […]