After class today, we had a brief meeting with a Kodak representative who talked about their sponsorship with the Beijing Olypmics. After that we went with Ted as well as the Kodak Representative and got to see the inside of the Olympic venue (which was a very prestigous and wonderful experience for us as only a selected few and people with permission were able to actually go inside and check out the Bird's Nest and all the other buildings and towers built by people outside of Beijing who have been working on the venue for 3 years nonstop. We even got to talk to some of the workers and took pictures with them. They said that they've been working for 3 years on the venue for the Olympic and they're from all over China who've come from the rural parts just to work on it.
After visiting the Olympic venue we went out for dinner and enjoyed it at a very nice restaurant where we got to experience our first Peking duck! Everyone loved and enjoyed it.
After dinner we got to see an ACROBATIC SHOW! It was just amazing! We've never seen so many painful positions that come out so graceful as the ones that we've seen today. In one of the acts they had as much as 12 people on one single bike that a single person peddled from underneath all those people. We saw another act where a woman supported 4 people on a stick that was placed on her chin, it was just astounding! We were also fortunate enough to see plate spinners and a huge wheel where two males were spinning around in what seemed like a hamster cage that were suspended in the air, connected together and spun. Can't wait to see what's more in store for us.
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