Euro Journeys: London Olympic Site 2012

Today for our Global Citizens class we got the great opportunity to go to the Olympic site, which I thought was going to be spectacular. It ended up just being a secluded area with a map of what the site is going to eventually look at and a massive construction zone. It was still really cool because come 2 years from now it is going to be really cool to see how much it changed from now. The site itself is bigger than Hyde Park (London's biggest park) and it is in zone 3 so it is pretty far outside of Central London. The budget for the project is an incredible 9 billion pounds ($14,407,649,874.69) which is for the main stadium, aquatic centre and many of the other buildings including the village to house the 17,500 athletes.

It is supposed to be completed by this time next year so they have over a year to practice and do dry runs of the opening and closing ceremonies, probably so they don't make the same mistake that happened in Beijing!

There is a lot of controversy that surrounds the project for after the Olympics which I won't get into but it can be a big issue in the future.

Anyways, here are the pictures, it will be interesting to see what is to come of this site in the next year and a half before the games, it is crazy to think that they will happen in the summer after graduating college!