Sydney... continued

Sydney, (continued)

I am going to continue on into day 2….after a good night sleep of 8 hrs I got up to go to the hop on bus to get to Central ….in the middle of the morning rush hour. Again, lots of folks going to work and clearly among the best dressed I have seen in years. Predominantly Europeans and Indians….but few from Africa or the Middle East …or so it appears….Got to Central station and found the train to the Olympic Park. Central Station is built on European standards with a massive main hall and good access to the long distance trains as well as the local trains. 20 minutes to Olympic Park, which is renovated from the 2000 Olympics…and is now used for everything, not just conventions. The massive stadiums are used for Rigby world competition, etc. The track was holding a meet for high school kids….with a soccer meet in one of the other venues. I registered and got my volunteer assignments…..and I start tomorrow with the World Choir rehearsal in preparation for the opening interfaith service on Sunday. My primary assignments are for Sunday afternoon the the big sessions on Monday,Tuesday, and Wednesday. So, I am waiting for the train back to the central station. The trains here are very modern and impressive and certainly ones that we could learn from. The cars are all double decker so hold large numbers of riders. Very clean and quiet….and quite fast and on time…very impressive to say the least. Trains are used here, along with the city buses as the basic means of getting in, out, and around both Sydney and the outlying area.
My plans for today is to do t he Bondi hop on tour…then the Sydney Tower and then try to hear a service at St Mary Cathedral which is the largest catholic cathedral in the country. Tonight will be at Circle Quay with all of its activity…..so should be a full afternoon…
A couple of things about the convention….again, extremely well organized with lots of folks to help with directions etc…..all very helpful. The area of the Olympic Park is huge so a lot of help is really valuable as they are expecting 25000 attendees. The information that is given out at registration is very complete and more than you need but very useful. After I got checked in I went over and had a subway sandwich……and all of the fat foods are here….Burger King is called Hungry Jacks…..more to come…