Well, would you believe that it all begins tomorrow? When it was first announced that the 2012 Olympics would be held in London we though "that's so far away" but before we know it, the day is almost upon us!
If you have a National Geographic magazine subscription then you'll have just received the August 2012 issue, which looks at how the East End has changed over the years, from being a place where all of London's industrial workers lived and worked to what is currently a mixture of low-income housing and up-and-coming technology whizzes.
As part of hosting the Olympics, the government hoped to improve London's most deprived areas in the East by re-using the new buildings as community centres and turning the athletes village into private housing, as well as offering more job opportunities to those out of employment.
Jerome Frost, the head of design for the Olympic Delivery Authority said: "The games present a unique opportunity for London. We would reinvent the event. Make it more sustainable. The bid we made to the Olympic Committee was positioned on what we would leave behind."
Let's just hope it all works out for the best!
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Posted by Donnie Bachan.
