IT SEEMS YOU NEED A PASS TO GET ANYWHERE...

... or at least that's what I think everytime I glance up on my study's wall and see the passes hanging from a peg rail... and apart from one badge, all the others were necessaary for occasions wher I was working for free!!
		Let's see some of them...
feb 2002 sometime in autum 2002 mar 2003 Okay, this pass is not mine.... it was handed to me by Maurizio's father when they were leaving, to try to use it to get on the official buses at Euros (the rink was pretty far from anyting!) Diego had tried to have us help last year, but we were going to Gelsenkirchen.. this time we had no escape, LOL! Actually it was a lot of fun, I mainly did very early shifts as practice announcer... skating at this rink, someone asked me to come and give a hand.. mostly I was an interpreter...
dic 2003		feb 2004		feb 2004		mar 2004
I worked a lot in the backstage of this show... painting signs, creating the sponge letters, colouring them... and helping he skaters getting ready in the dressing room, repairing he clothes...and anything else!		I also had regular tickets, but having a journalists' pass made everything so much more fun... going to the conferences, interviewing people, going into the mixed zone... I enjoyed these Euros immensely!!		Being at the time in an adult almost-synchro amost-team in the rink where this event was held, I ended up helping out again....		....and again....
WHILE AT TOROC
from Dec 2004 to Feb 2005				Jan 2005
as an employee, I got my badge which granted me access to the building in Corso Novara...				But I still needed a pass to get to the Palavela during Euros... ST and FS meant I gcould come in during Short Track as well and not only Figure Skating, and 456 were the VIP areas... and FOP is the Field Of Play - the most coveted pass which allowed you to get rinkside...
giu 2005		aug 2005		sept 2005		gen 2006
my cousin is a pilot, and was competing... so my uncle gave us two very cool passes... we literally could get till the pit lane, around the box, in my cousin's team hospitality...		Going to see the show in Baselga proved extra special... not only I drove some skaters there, but I had an inerview with Philippe Candeloro scheduled... and of course I was given a guest pass, and watched the show from the hockey benches, thank you Alessandro!		Several of us, volunteers for Torino 2006, were asked to give a hand at this event.. the best jobs wentto those who had worked there all week during the Canadians' practices, so I ended up in spectators' service...		Nationals were held in Sesto S.Giovanni, and I worked for the press area... doing interviews and putting up stuff on the website... it was A LOT of work, but fun...
Feb 2006 - The Olympics   having a barcode doesn't feel really flattering... every time they scanned us at the check-in, I felt like something on sale in a supermarket... PAL means access to the Palavela and the Tazzoli OVT is access to the Olympic Village Torino The blue bar on the bottom grants us access to all the sports area (which have a higher security level, someone with blue can access also red and white in the venue, but not the opposite) R is access to the residential area of the Olympic Village This was an extra-pass to get on the shuttle buses reserved for the athletes, connecting the OVT with the two ice rinks of figure skating (so we could get from home to work, and back!)   The radio call-names sheet I needed to identify whom I had to call, or who was calling me... and the little blue powerade bottel is actually a key to get free drinks from any vending machine in the village (they didn't accept money, you could use them only with one of these keys, given to the teams... I got this one from the ITA skating team leader, thank you!)