The Olympic Games are less than three weeks away and Beijing is spiffing up. When you have a workforce of over a billion people you can get lots done in a short time. Every day the city transforms itself more and more. Signage has gone up from one end of town to the other. You drive [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Olympic Countdown
Posted: July 18, 2008 in China, Olympics, Random Thoughts, TravelTags: Beijing, China, Olympics, Random Thoughts
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Ginger and the Great Wall
Posted: July 14, 2008 in China, Olympics, Travel, WomenTags: Beijing, China, Great Wall of China, Olympics, Terra Cotta Warriors, Xian
There were two places on my must see list on this journey to China and this past weekend in an Olympic sightseeing marathon I visited both. On Saturday friends and I flew to Xian for a whirlwind day trip to see the Terra Cotta Warriors and on Sunday three of us visited the Great Wall [...]
Hen hao (very good) taxi ride
Posted: July 9, 2008 in China, Olympics, Random Thoughts, TravelTags: Beijing, China, Olympics, Taxi
Mr. Li gets the good Olympic citizen award. I left my new Nike sweatshirt in his taxi following a ride to the Emperor Hotel. After a couple days of searching my Chinese colleague tracked him down and learned he had delivered the item to the hotel thinking I was a guest there. When she told him otherwise, he retrieved [...]
For the love of Panda Bears
Posted: July 6, 2008 in China, Colorado, Endangered Species, Natural Disasters, Olympics, Travel, WomenTags: Add new tag, Beijing, Beijing Zoo, China, China Earthquake, NBC, Nightly News with Brian Williams, Olympics, Panda Bears, Pandas International, Suzanne Braden, Wolong
Sunday in Beijing and I feel the city is mine. The sky is a beautiful blue (yes, it does happen) and the sun is out. In two and a half weeks I have found a French bakery for cappuccinos, a restaurant I love called Hutong Pizza and I rode the subway. I’m making my way [...]
Hot Pot of Thoughts
Posted: July 3, 2008 in China, Colorado, Media, Olympics, Random Thoughts, Travel, WomenTags: Alan Iverson, Beijing, Carmelo Anthony, China, Denver Nuggets, Olympics, Peking Opera
Brenda and I went to a restaurant with red lanterns in front that serves hot pot. A hot pot is like sukiyaki. It is a mish mash of meat, vegetables and noodles cooked at the table. There was no English spoken and the menu was completely in Chinese. For westerners there are pictures of the [...]
We have a new employee at work. She hails from Guangzhou in the south of China and has been in Beijing for one and a half years. She is a 30 something television producer and speaks excellent English. During a lull in the action today we got to talking. It was great to transcend the language [...]
