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From a volunteer’s perspective…

19 June 2010 | Jo Hubris | 2 Comments

Last year I traveled with the Code Blacks to Sydney to help out behind the scenes, writing blog posts and doing anything else that I could to keep the teams and clients happy. This year I’m back again, in the comfort of my own city, and it’s a vastly different experience.

In 2009, the teams were crammed into a tiny space in a huge exhibition hall. This year, we have the luxury of pretty much the whole town hall (which of course we’re sharing with the ghosts, but more on that later), meaning that the teams each have their own room in which to work. . Last year there were a handful of volunteers from NZ, and a small handful of judges and volunteers from Australia. Now look at us:

Represented are all four chief Webstockers, an assortment of Webstock Secret Agents, some past contestants, clients, husbands and some Australians. Instead of constantly being told off by security guards for wandering out of our designated area, this year we’ve been encouraged to roam the whole building in search of ghosts. To be completely honest, I reckon if the ghosts are leftover from the influenza epidemic of 1918, they will totally be Team Code Blacks because it was foreigners that made us sick in the first place. Not that the volunteers aren’t objective or anything. It’s not like we’re playing “Eye of the Tiger” every time a Code Black runs up the stairs past us. Honest!

Oh, and on Twitter, on the tag #FCP10, there has been a bit of discussion about what the volunteers should be called. So far I’m loving Sue’s suggestion of “FullCodeGangPress” best. Can you top that?

Tags: behind the scenes, fullcodeghost, volunteers