First week in Russian working in Sochi for Stage one preparing for the winter Olympics ceremonies. The stadium is a pretty amazing structure and when working in it you spend allot of time just getting from one point to another because it is so huge. Ild like to post a few pictures of the place but politically I’m unsure what I can or cannot post so ill put in a few of around the place instead.
First arriving here was a little crazy as when JT Gary and myself were been driven from the airport to the hotel at 04:00 in the morning, our driver stopd the car on this dark busy road and hopped out after he saw a body lying essentially in the middle of the highway. We all got out and we had some high power torches to flash the oncoming traffic to stop them completely running over this guy. A few other cars stopped and luckily this guy wasn’t dead but it looked like he had been knocked over and if our driver hand have spotted him he would most definitely been ran over by a truck within minutes. Eventually after 20 minutes an ambulance turned up and took the guy away, our driver took us to the hotel that was the end of that story.
My pass was meant to be ready on moray when i went in at 13:00 but was delayed for some reason. I pent the day trying to familiarise myself wight he place. Where were staying near the hotel theres not allot here at the moment apart from buildings and construction work!
Most of this week has been spent on the catwalks running in data infrastructure, updating firmware on the motion controllers and then playing the waiting game whilst we keep asking the local suppliers to turn on a section of power.
Its pretty hinge up there, its difficult to see from this picture put the red dot between the floor grate is the top of a guys helmet standing on the stage below us. Probably the highest I’ve worked before!
The sunsets are pretty cool here, this is the south end of the venue which overlooks the black sea. Ive been old the bright dot in the sky is venus, amazing colours here, possibly try and get a better picture some other evening.
This week has been quite a blur, I’m still adjusting to the place as it’s a bit of a mad place to work but more about that later on sometime