Samantha Running: “Probably the luckiest day of my life”

China’s luckiest day of the year turned out to be pretty lucky for me as well, probably the luckiest day of my life.
After watching the fireworks at the beginning of the Opening Ceremonies, I was off to find a place to watch them on the TV. Within minutes of leaving the group, a guy [...]

Laura Dotson: Trying to see the ceremony

Green definitely does NOT mean go!
So I started writing this blog at exactly 8pm, on 8/8/08. Yep, it’s Olympic time! Over 91 thousand people are packed into the Bird’s Nest. I’ll guess that over 1.5 million are packed onto the Olympic Green, or OCD (Olympic Common Domain), to see the fireworks. Where am I? In [...]

Lost in translation

Erin Riley, a Missouri student, has also been keeping a Beijing blog. You can check it out by clicking here.

Alex Monnig: Gymnastics

Here’s a glimpse into where a good chunk of our team has been spending its hours working at the Olympics. This is the National Indoor Stadium, where the gymnastics events are being held. Of course it will look a lot nicer than this on TV, but this is from a few weeks ago, before everything [...]

Say it ain’t so, Yao

Yao Ming won’t be lighting the torch.
The NBA’s Ming, the best-known Chinese athlete (as far as Americans are concerned), said on television yesterday that he’d not been contacted. In fact, Yao ran a portion of the torch route through the city, all but assuring that his name won’t be called when the torch finally reaches [...]