August 8, 2008 2:05 PM
He made the room quite messy.
I've gotten my hands on a copy of the "Beijing Olympic Games Training Series: A Conversational English Reader." BOCOG -- the Beijing Olympic governing body -- is using it as a manual to teach volunteers how to react to any situation that might arise during the Games. Some of those situations just happen to be a bit unusual.Today's text is reproduced in its entirety and is not edited. All non-sequiturs and grammatical errors are theirs. The text is titled "At the Resident Centre" from the "At the Olympic Village" section of the reader. Again: this really is a guide for how volunteers are supposed to deal with athletes in this particular situation. Today's text also explains just about everything you need to know about how Chinese volunteers are going to deal with the morning-after celebrations tomorrow. Enjoy:
Foreign athlete: Good morning, sir. I am sorry to bother you, but could you please change the beddings and do another round of cleaning for Room 517A of Apartment 10? My roommate got drunk and the made the room quite messy.
Local volunteer: No problem. But you have to wait for a while because everybody is doing the routine cleaning for other rooms. I will send somebody to your place in a few minutes, if you don't mind.
Foreign athlete: No, not at all. It would be even better if you could manage to send a maid there right now.
Local volunteer: I'll try my best. Hopefully the maid will be with you in just a couple of minutes. By the way, is your roommate okay now? Does he need anybody to help him?
Foreign athlete: He is fine, I guess. What he needs is to take a hot bath and have a bit of sleep. Oh, yes, we do need some fresh towels and I was wondering what I should do with my laundry.
Local volunteer: You can just go down to the laundry room on the first floor in your apartment and use the washers and driers there. Or you just look up the phone number of the laundry service in the Village Guide and make a call to them.
Foreign athlete: Sounds good. Oh, another thing. I'm sorry about that, but the water tap in our bathroom is loose and keeps leaking. Could you also send someone there to fix it.
Local volunteer: Okay. I'll contact the maintenance and ask them to fix it up right away. They will be there in no time.
Foreign athlete: Oh, thank you very much. I'll be expecting you guys in my apartment.
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