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Weekly 5 and a massive welcome to the first 5 volunteers from the class of 2010
Konban Wa!Here's what I've been doing for the past week
Well the office has become progressively more quiet this past week with David going off South East towards Bosnia for two weeks, Alex leaving today for the Highlands of Scotland again for two weeks and Steph hunting for work (Oh and not to forget Pete leaving. So here's 5 things what I've been doing:
1. Placing adverts and attempting to place adverts for volunteers to join the Rapid Response Team and...
2. Welcoming five new Team members in, the first new members of the class of 2009-2010. I've already e-mailed them privately but once again a warm and cheerful, public welcome to Olusha Ojikutu, Arfraz Majeed, Sean Cable, Michael Archer and Daniel Lipman who are the first five new members to join this summer. It's nice to see I may be greedy but we're still looking for more people whether you're young old, disabled or non disabled, LGBT or straight, Black or white. The Rapid Response Team is effectively one of the motors on the site and a good bit of competition for us interns at HQ as well as raising the standard of debating for all contributors whether RRT HQ or not. After all we can't have Alex (who's going to be the first to score 1000 Karma tomorrow) or me( who was first to break the 500 K mark in June getting all the achievements on Debatewise!
3.Editing and working on debates such as one on whether the latest swimsuits used in competitive swimming are a form of mechanical doping ,something that has added significance given that the Swimming World Championships are happening in Rome at the moment .
4. Not related to work but... I went out on a trip for people on the National Autistic Society's Transitions Scheme to Greenwich on Thursday seeing the Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory as well as the Planetarium. On that note A huge friendly shout out of appreciation to those people from Goldman Sachs who organised, facilitated and went around with all of us in the cool but nice weather on that day as well as the staff from Transitions. I had a really interesting time viewing the various exhibits and sitting and watching the 3D movie and it was nice meeting the different people who went both autistic and non autistic. I even got to blow some rust off my passing and dribbling skills (which I haven't done in at least a year) as well as enjoy some nice sandwiches too!
5.Back to things debating related, I've also been responding to last minute inquiries from people about the WODC before the deadline for registration closed. I can't report on the precise breakdown of the nations yet although rest assured that will be coming soon along with the draw and reports on each of the rounds of the WODC as and when they happen.
Well got to leave the workstation clean but derelict for now as the weekend's calling.
Sayonara