August 12, 2008 – 8:09 pm
Lisa: While lost trying to find my way to the USA House, I met up with a nice American couple. They also had a taxi driver who was struggling with directions so together we jumped in yet another cab that finally got us to our destination. While driving around the Workers Stadium, I learned these [...]
August 12, 2008 – 4:40 pm
–Maggie Webbert, Kari Frontera, Mayer Weisel.
August 12, 2008 – 3:05 pm
Editra: I went to see women’s Team Handball and quickly became a big fan of the sport. I did not realize that it had so much physical contact and moved so quickly. I saw two games: China-Romania and Sweden-Russia. Sweden-Russia was amazing, an all-out battle. The teams traded goals while roughing each other up. I [...]
August 12, 2008 – 1:20 am
Lisa: I had dinner at a famous roast duck restaurant, Beijing Quanjude, with a well-known Chinese storyteller named Shaozuo Zhang. During dinner, Shaozuo performed a short story about Peking Duck. At the end of the meal, his manager sang some Chinese opera. And even besides the duck, there was food for a feast.
Shaozuo is [...]