Dinner at a Beijing hot pot restaurant turned into a show, when this guy began twirling and dancing while making noodles beside our table. Eventually, he dropped it in the hot pot – built into the table. One side of the pot was spicy. One side, not so much. A great [...]
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This is what 61 Olympic tickets look like, fanned across the hotel bed.
The good news is that The Beijing Olympic Committee for the Games of the XXXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) has given the Missouri group some tickets to the Beach Volleyball event tomorrow morning. Some students have been successful at landing tickets of their own, but [...]
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It’s T-minus two hours until I officially start being a flash quotes reporter at the field hockey venue. I’m a little nervous, but since we’ve been interviewing athletes all week, it’s kind of business as usual for me.
My very first interview was with two brothers on the field hockey team from Spain. They were really [...]
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I watched the opening ceremonies Friday night with Shawna Xu, a student from Remnin University who’s been helping us during our stay at her school.
Her job was to give us translation of the commentator’s comments but you could tell, early on, that something was up.
Her eyes were wet.
“What’s wrong?” I asked her.
She shook her head. [...]
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