Day 5 The day after the biggest event in the world

The picture above is our Travel and Leisure and Tourism team with the Deputy Mayor Ian Clement who asked this blog to be sent to him. We look forward to his comments! Thanks to Deputy Mayor Ian Clement for spending time with us.

From Monish

China woke up with one big hangover this morning after the biggest party in the world last night.

The Travel Leisure and Tourism team woke up in their own time following a night they would never forget! Jenine- who loves her food!!- and Cerise managed to come down for breakfast at 8.30am! Yueqin was up at 8.30 too. The rest of us decided to catch up on our sleep. The Chinese people were so happy last night. Proud of the Opening Ceremony; their hospitality has been excellent throughout.

Today was the first chance we could get to the ' Birds Nest' as security is very tight. We took the number 2 Olympic bus, however, I would recommend to London 2012, to have more people to guide foreign visitors as we were not sure which stop to get off and there were no people we could talk to in English. Unfortunately, Natalie felt ill during the bus ride and wanted to go back to the hotel . Yueqin got off with her and they were immediately helped by five Beijing people who were concerned for her health! One of them took them to her office where she worked, and provided water, it was 35 degrees and sunny today; and provided a massage treatment to relax Natalie! Fantastic! Natalie is fine now and enjoyed the rest of the evening.

Rest of us went on to Birds Nest and took some wonderful photos...the atmosphere was buzzing!

Our travel and tourism students then had to 'work' this evening at the London House. Again, they were at the front of house- the face of London- and still the only college to be there!

I then spoke to Ian Clement, Deputy Mayor of London- who was impressed with our team from Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College. We took a photo with him- picture as above- and he accepted my invitation to visit the college in the new term!

We also chatted to Jean Tomlin, Human Resource Director of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympics Games LTD. for London 2012, who was delighted with our travel, leisure and tourism students, and expressed interest in working with us on our return !

We arrived back at the hotel at 1am and it is now 2 am so I am signing off!