Among the 45,000-plus working forces at the Athens Olympic Games, only a small portion are foreigners, and even fewer young expatriates, who love classic music in an era with hip-hop hooking most of the teenagers.

Evelyne Giessinger, an Austrian guide at an Olympics transportation hub, is one of them.

Giessinger often smiled then recommended one of her Greek colleagues when she was asked about the pronunciation of Nikaia, the weightlifting venue, or a popular Greek singer's soundtracks.

Yet, the pretty but tranquil girl did offer something, exhibiting the Greek metropolitan cultural inclusiveness and the closeness of Olympics birthplace to other European cities.

Giessinger told Xinhua on Tuesday that her mother's family was Greek. "I've been in Athens for one year to trace the family root," she said.

Giessinger, growing up to study viola and piano at six, revels in classic music. She likes Mozart but enjoys Bach more.

Asked why she prefers Spring in Vivaldi's Violin Concertos -- The Four Seasons, she said: "when I listen to that piece, I feel completely relaxed."

But on the sporting side, she more often has fun in winter when she skis in snow mountains along the Austria-Switzerland border.

Residing in a town about eight or nine hours drive to Vienna, Giessinger had once spent one week in the capital city where she watched musical Mozart, exclusively staged there. But she said she has yet to catch a touch of the Hollywood film version of that musical, Amadeus.

"My family name is very close to Kissinger, a famous American politician," she said. "But we don't have anything to do with him. "

Giessinger originally applied for the Athens Olympics volunteer program but the organizers put her in the working staff who get paid for their Olympic jobs.

"I was not quite sure about the reason. But why not," she said.

She works at Faliro, an Athens Games traffic interchange, for three months as a working staff member rather than 20 days as a volunteer.

The Athens Olympics has enlisted volunteers from diversified cultures. And the United States, Spain and Germany become the three foreign countries from which most applications were submitted.

Culture varieties are not only displayed in music. Language is another front.

Don Hook, an Australian and the only foreigner at the Nikaia Olympic weightlifting venue, is a team leader for the weightlifting competition news services.

Hook told Xinhua on Tuesday that he was a press manager at the Sydney Olympics and is doing the news articles and flash quotes in English, among other journalistic jobs, at Nikaia.

"I used to live in (Australian capital) Canberra," he said. "I like working here to offer a helping hand."

On Tuesday, he did an interview with Chen Wenbin, deputy head coach of the Chinese men's weightlifting team, to write a back- grounder.

Hook won't feel lonely in Athens. He sometimes gets together with his Australian friends, some of them media management professionals at the Athens Olympics.

A successful Olympics delivers when good communication is in place. Good communication takes place when cultural understandings, which are full of nuances, are reached. People with colorful cultural backdrops at the Athens Games do make the differences.