A year of doing stuff....

"The year of doing stuff"

Last year my sister (for the purposes of this blog we will call her Francesca, because that is her name) and I decided to have what we, quite brilliantly called, "a year of doing stuff".  We wanted to make 2011 a year to remember....whether it be a 5k charity run, a balloon ride or applying to be London Ambassadors.  It was in this spirit we embarked on our London Ambassador journey, filled in our application forms and attended a recruitment event.

Francesca went to her recruitment event first.  Which was lucky as I hate facing the unknown.  And it meant, in the game where you had to place London attractions on a map, I could look smug as the only one in my team to know where the Imperial War Museum was (........having looked it up beforehand).  Of course the game wasn't really testing our knowledge of London attractions, more how we worked as a team.....but the element of competition was pretty strong.  We also had to role play and face the kind of people we might encounter during our shift.  There are definitely some frustrated actors amongst the London Ambassadors...
Our other challenge was to talk on a random topic for a minute, or maybe two...I can't remember, all I remember was gabbling away, having been given the topic of colour, about how an old flatmate of mine did not have a favourite colour and then in a panic just listing colours....fascinating for my team mates I'm sure.

The final part of recruitment was an informal interview.  Informal it really was; I had to stifle a laugh when my interviewer attempted to fit my brilliant pre-prepared speech about how I would be a perfect London Ambassador onto the two lines on her form.  "I'll just put helpful, friendly and passionate about London"...yeah that should about do it.

The on 28th September 2011 we were both offered the role of London Ambassadors on our first choice location (Southbank) in the last week of the Olympics.