august 13: the Chinese can do it

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

i arrived in beijing in the afternoon on 7th august. although i have been to beijing so many times, however it feels different this time. the whole city is in an "olympic" mood, posters and banners with olympic slogans can be found everywhere, all the workers /helpers /volunteers were polite, wearing a smile on their face always, enthusiastic in helping us in every aspect (or when there are problems) and they can even speak english fluently! in addition the number of cars on the roads have been minimized, the air quality is also better now...a little bit (haha!) , the breath-taking Bird's Nest and Water Cube, even at the place where we work, IBC, the canteen food is pretty good too, traffic, even the accomodation is superb. the only thing is that the internet access at the media village is pretty inconvenient and the rates are really expensive, that's why i can only update my blog when i return to HK!
On the 8th was present to watch the opening ceremony, felt extremely excited! china has finally done it! no matter where u are watching it live or on tv, u should feel satisfied, after the show that night, i asked a lot of foreigners who were staying in the media village like me, a vast majority used the same english phrase to describe~AMAZING!
Being a chinese person (part of china), at that moment, i felt really proud! of course, i took lots of pictures, will gradually upload them here as well as hackenleenet.com to share with everyone.

[tricia~ haha ok the way he describe the water cube was funny. he used an er chinese idiom to say that it was so beautiful that he couldn't breathe! LOL. check out the pics though!]

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[translated by: Tricia]