Asbury College at the Olympics

February 20th, 2006
It’s 8:15pm on Monday, the one-day weekend for the production crew at Pragelato Plan. While I didn’t get to fulfill my original plans of skiing in the Alps today, I had a very restful and recuperative time. Yesterday we got off of work around 4:00pm, which gave me plenty of time to […]

My friend Sam asked some great questions about the Olympics, some that I hadn’t even thought about, so I’ll try to answer a few of them here in short form.
Altitude
According to my GPS, we’re at 4,841 feet at our “temporary housingâ€? (hotel). I think the venue is probably a little bit higher, but probably only […]

February 18th, 2006
It’s 10:15pm here in Pragelato, Italy, which is a little bit later than I wanted to start writing, but I took a 1.5 hour nap this afternoon, which should give me a little extra time. Just as the last few days, tomorrow the bus leaves at 6:45am. Monday, should be our day […]

February 16th, 2006
It’s 11:00pm on Thursday night, and again I write from my bed in the TOBO temporary housing in Pragelato. This morning started out very warm and rainy. At about 40 degrees, it was cool enough to keep my jacket on, which was nice, since it made me completely waterproof. We do have […]

After a final tour of Lingotto and the IBC, we headed off to Pragelato, which is where I’ll be working for the next month. JD and Josh came with me, although they don’t begin work yet, they just wanted to see the mountain.
What should have been a one and a half hour bus ride became […]

Just a quick update: I’m sitting on the hard tiled floor of what has become the Asbury apartment in Italy. Brandon Bigham is renting it for the length of his contract, which is from like January 20 - March 3. However, dozens of people are coming and going at different times, and that makes it […]