2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (BIUS EPISODE 2.1 — SPECIAL OLYMPICS EDITION)

Happy Valentine’s Day, Readers!

The 2010 Winter Olympics have finally debuted in Vancouver, BC, Canada! I live in Vancouver, and I can tell you, while it was all ‘Welcome athletes!’, and ‘Go World,’ it has been hell in Vancouver when it came to traffic, and transit, for the past month.

On Friday, instead of the one hour it usually takes me to get home from school, it took me two. The reason? There were no buses available, and the roads were jam packed with cars and trucks. After waiting for a good half-an-hour for the bus, I gave up and walked a ‘relaxing’ 5 kilometers to another busy bus stop. The point is, it was SUPER busy here. I think Vancouver’s attracting great attention! (besides those idiotic anti-olympic demonstrators, and the sad death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumartashvili)

I watched the Opening Ceremony on TV, of course, and it was the best one I had ever seen. However, when the hydraulic system failed at the end, I felt like turning the TV off. A real heart-stopping moment for everyone, there.

Enough of that. The Olympics are going pretty well so far. For now, I’ve only watched the men’s and women’s moguls, women’s hockey, figure skating, and luge. The Canadian women’s hockey team, as many of you know, beat Team Slovakia 18-0 on Saturday night, breaking an Olympic record. While l was happy for Canada’s victory, I still felt happy for Slovakia’s women’s team, for making their Olympic debut, and doing a great job. I still can’t wait to see the men play.

Moving on to men’s luge: I was feeling really nervous while I was watching the event because after watching the disturbing video of Nodar Kumartashvili’s death, I was scarred for the next two days. I couldn’t stop thinking or tweeting about it. Nevertheless, I now feel more comfortable watching luge. I was really impressed with the Germans and the Canadians.

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I’m taking two weeks off of school now, therefore I’ll be watching the Olympics almost the whole day every day. I’ll be tweeting about Olympic news a lot; just look for the #van2010 hashtag in my tweets. Please don’t expect professional-quality news equivalent to NBC’s or CTV’s; I’m just doing this for fun! =)

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JOKE OF THE WEEK!!!

An Illinois man left the snowballed streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.

Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor dead.

At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

Dearest Wife,

Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.

Your Loving Husband.

P.S. Sure is hot down here.

Misunderstandings are always annoying. But this joke was well written. One of my favorites.

That brings an end to this week’s media-less Special Olympic Edition BossItUp Series episode! Thank you for reading! I appreciate all the comments you’re sending me! Also, thanks a bunch for following me on Twitter.

Enjoy the 2010 Olympics!!