I'm just watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, and yes, I'm glad that our President is there.
The first of the opening ceremony was 2008 Chinese giving a masterful and inspiring performance on 2008 drums. What beauty, what coordination. How much more significant it would have been to be there.
Fireworks, light displays. Footsteps of light going from the old city to the new building.
The world IS flat - and the better we can all share and cooperate the better.
Sharon - I will have to see the late night version. We are off to an 8/08/08 party. Looks like good stuff rm what I saw on the Internet.
Jeff
Hi Sharon,
Good for you, I've got friends coming over for the same thing tonight. It's always been a favorite of mine.
it was pretty amazing- can you imaging all the practice hours ! Prefection indeed.
Jeff - what wonderful opportunities for photographs - hopefully you'll see all of the color and pageantry when you see it later. This is what VCRs are for!
Lynda - it will be even more fun with your friends around. I don't remember an Opening Ceremony as spectacular as this one.
Michele - no, I really can't. There was one event where 2,008 Chinese were performing Tai Chi - far more advanced than any classes I've seen here - and when they were running past each other from opposing directions with an inch or so between them - what precision indeed.
I thought the opening ceremony was beautiful. Couldn't stay awake for the whole thing, though. I think I fell asleep after the Tai Chi performers. The only sad thing about it was that I kept thinking about the guy Cheeks who was banned from attending because of his affiliation with Team Dafur. Sad because, as beautiful as that show was, it was obvious to me that it was just that - a show put on to say "we can do stuff that no one else could even think of" while at the same time, the government is still being the same government. Sad.
~Renae
Renae - our government is no prize for saying one thing and doing another.
Wasn't that show something? They did an absolutely spectacular job. You could see the pride in all of those folks that participated.