Hello my friends!

Greetings from across the globe. I have made it to Singapore. And what an awesome country it is. I arrived here last night at around 7.00 o’clock Singapore time which is around 1 o’oclock in the morning in NZ so I am pretty tired today. The flight was 12 hours. About 8 hours longer than I am used to but the time truly did fly by (excuse the pun). Once we had arrived at the airport we got picked up by a bus which took us to the athlete village. The village is based on a uni campus. It accommodates 5000 of us athletes and on top of that officials, managers and coaches. So it is pretty full on, as you can imagine. After we had gone through the metal detectors and what not, every person in the games was given a touch screen Samsung! I just though this was incredible. How many phones is that? Like 6000? Singapore is holding these games in style, that’s for sure. After we had been given our phones we took a look around the food hall which is when the reality of being at the games really hit me. Athletes from every country in the world, countries of which I have never even heard of populated this massive hall! Food from all over the show was being served. Everyone seemed to know what they were doing as if they had been living there for weeks, and there I was stunned! Every athlete that walked past I tried to see which country they were from and which sport they competed in, a task which is close to impossible. I don’t think I have ever been surrounded by so many fit and athletic looking people in my life. Not a lot has happened besides that so far. We are going to do a quick swim, bike, run on the course later and that’s about it!

Thank you for reading!

Toodles,

Maddie :)