Thursday night saw another social event, a reception held by one of our sponsors DGUV (German social accident insurance) at the German house in Canary Wharf.
It’s very different to the glass and sheen of the GB house but still very impressive as it’s based in the Dockland’s museum. For one final time we traipsed through the tube in our finery drawing puzzled looks from commuters.
There were speeches made by our sponsors, conversations with athletes as well me and a few others getting up on stage to share our experiences. It was a really lovely evening spent celebrating the whole project and DGUV’s involvement and support. We all enjoyed the music and the dinner. Although we couldn’t be at the stadium to watch the 100m final we gathered around the TV to watch Jonnie Peacock win the race!
On Friday I went to the London Evening Standard editorial office and was given a tour and an insight into what goes into producing a daily paper. We spoke to someone from the news desk and got to find out about the whole process of editing.
We saw how the website is put together and the difference between creating a newspaper and updating the website. It was really interesting to see all the components needed to produce a newspaper. The production team showed how they build the pages and how they make two editions of the paper every day. All you could hear people tapping away on their keyboards, phones ringing and papers shuffling, it was just the atmosphere I had imagined. It was the first time I had ever been to a news room of that size and to see it in full swing was great. Everyone we spoke to told us something new about how the paper is made and all the different jobs there are.
The next edition of the Paralympic Post is due out any day and I’m very excited to see all our reports of the sport and the stories we’ve found during our very busy but enjoyable time at the Games.
