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Wednesday Aug 16, 2006

BIG CHILL

Just incase i couldnt get enough of smelly portaloos, walkie talkies and drunk festival goers, i offered to volunteer at another festival THE BIG CHILL. Oxfam festival steward organisers were pleading with us lovely people helping out at WOMAD to lend a hand the following weekend at this festival. Im not quite sure if im a sucker or a festival lover, but being unemployed and with not much else to do except job hunting (which i was keen to avoid like the plague) i offered my services. Offering to volunteer at late notice, i explained to the team manager that to keep me happy, i didnt want any 'graveyard' shifts (starting at 12am or later) and to make me ultra willing that i wanted to volunteer on the platform for people with disabilities - a raised area in front of the main stage reserved for people who due to their disability needed to sit down or use a  wheelchair during performances, to make sure they werent knocked as punters danced around to the music and enabling them to see above peoples heads - my main reason being that i was able to enjoy the dj's and bands at the same time. They agreed!

Posted by Helen Bryant ( 4:01 PM )
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