Haven’t Kept Up Like I Wanted
I haven’t been able to keep up with the Olympics the past couple of days like I wanted to, catching nothing but a bit of synchronized swimming on TV. That one isn’t quite one of my favorite events.
Silken has been keeping up with gymnastics some recently. I’ve mostly only been able to keep up via second-hand input like this, but even that is fun.
The best update I recently got was from a friend who got some free tickets to a baseball game over the weekend. Taiwan was playing, so the support from the Chinese crowd was really high-energy. My friend isn’t very familiar with baseball, so asked me for a run-down of the rules before the game. I sent her what I could, and she said it was enough to help her and those with her feel involved in the game. (I think the Olympic atmosphere is enough, no matter what the event!)
My friends also got tickets to watch Italy play in the football match on Saturday. Their busy schedule of watching baseball and football made it so that they didn’t get to go see the Bird’s Nest and the Swimming Cube, but they still said the trip was memorable. (And it gives us something to see when we go to Beijing together at a later date.)
