Wednesday, August 13, 2008

First observations

Have only in beijing for a couple of hours. At the AY's family's apartment here in the city. They must have good money since it's a nice 3 bedroon on the top floor of the building.

Anyway, just coming through the airport, I was really impressed by how organized things were. The place was almost overflowing with volunteers (or hired staff? I couldn't tell) trained in english to help people get through customs, to taxis, etc. The roads were also pretty open. The AY told me that they ban half of all traffic during the games (license plates ending in even digits can drive on even dates, odd digits can drive on odd dates). Ok, going to see men's gymnastics individual finals in the morning, so off to bed now.

Hope the mamacita has not started a coup!!!