Yes you read right! The Olympic flame was in downtown Kitchener tonight and I was there to see it! I can’t believe it. Yes I know you may say that this is not that big of a deal and from the photo you will see below it doesn’t look like anything all that magnificent but let me explain.
I was born in Timisoara, Romania in the mid 1980s. That was a small town in Eastern Europe from where I got to watch numerous …well 4 sets of olympic games, well 3 that I can actually remember anything of. It was not the kind of place where one would expect them to be taking place.
Now, if one is to look at things and flick the “abstract thinking” switch to ON, then one can not deny that the Olympic flame is quite a cool thing. I mean come on …it’s been a symbolic fire burning …*checks Wikipedia*…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Flame as a symbol for peace since …well a very long time.
Whatever your opinion is in the end, I’d like to say that even though it was cold outside, and there were way too many people there in order to get a good look at anything, I am not sorry that I went. Who knows when the next time will be when the Olympic Flame gets run through the city I live in. I don’t feel like it was a waste at all. Alright, enjoy the images!
