Daily Archives: August 22nd, 2008

New Place, Familiar Face

Kari and Maggie: Michael Phelps’ contagious smile can be seen on as many billboards in Beijing as in his hometown of Baltimore.

Matina, Rosina, Kara and Gina: Hello, McDreamy.

Kari: Small world: One day at the Bird’s Nest there were a lot of people snapping photos of the building.  [...]

Mastering Martial Arts

Kari and Maggie: Martial arts is a large part of Chinese culture and is still practiced by both young and old in Beijing. Here is a video with a martial arts master passing along this skill to her student during morning exercises at the Temple of Heaven.

Kari: One morning, I got [...]

Club Bud, This Time With Michael Phelps

Gina: Two nights after our whole group went to Club Bud, six of us made another visit. We saw Evander Holyfield (an inside source told us Bud pays him for appearances) and Chris Tucker, who was sporting a white hat and a Capri shirt. The Chinese had a blast dancing and taking pictures with Holyfield [...]

The Learning Never Stops

Patrick: We toured two interesting sponsor houses on the Green the other day. The GE house had this cool dot-matrix waterfall and this even more fun interactive wall. Graphical interfaces coupled with human computer interactions is where it’s at — go computers! The Johnson & Johnson house was clean and contemporary, but the really cool [...]