The volunteer works at International Chiba marathon relay race competition.
I participated to the volunteer work at International Chiba marathon relay race competition. It was marvelous volunteer works I have ever done since I started volunteer work. The things we do in this volunteer is to support the marathon team which designed to us, my team was Great Britain team. Famous athlete of Great Britain is Ms. Paula Radcliff, she won many track races worldwide, and who got the MBE honor from British royal. She has not come to this competition; because she got pregnant, but there are famous British athletes came to Japan. By saying the support of the team, many of you want to know “what are the supports?” I will write about here what we, volunteer students from Kanda University did to the teams. Student will be support of the team the countries that speaks English language. There are lots of document to filled in, and also it have to be submission to the competition committee. The skills required to the students are, of course there is communication skill. There are questionnaire sheets required from Fuji-Television to get more information about the athletes to announce for the live telecast, which we have to translate to Japanese. Team leader 
meeting held at second day, we have to translate about what the chairperson talking in Japanese. The volunteer workers have to be at the information centre to answer the questions from athletes. There was a question like “where is the international phone?” The volunteers have to be calm to answer these questions, not to telling any false information. This point was hard time for me at the beginning, because I was too nervous to talk with them. Also, it was kind of difficulties to get use to the British English accent, but I use to it day by day.
I could not explain how to write the fulfilling emotions of participating of this volunteer, but this is one thing I can say; it is great experience to do it. It is great chance to be inside of International competition. The offering starts around September to October. Actual activities days is three nights four days, spend time with many athletes from all over the world. If you got interested in this volunteer, why don’t you entry this next year?
Written by Yuta Akutsu
