Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
August 10, 2008
Alice and I got up early on Friday morning to catch the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on CBC. We also had a simulcast of CCTV1 (China Central Television 1) running on the computer so Alice could enjoy some Mandarin language coverage.
That ceremony was astounding, amazing, stupendous, phenomenal and whatever other adjective you could imagine. My favourite was the fireworks that replicated the 29 footsteps running from the outskirts of the city all the way to the Birds Nest stadium.
I particularly enjoyed that Canada got the second largest cheers from the crowd (behind China of course). One of the main reasons is because of Dashan (see this earlier post for an explanation) but also because the Chinese hold a very favourable opinion of Canada and Canadians.
