Monday, August 11, 2008 Sunny and cloudy

In three days, I can not help but to be excited and feel glorious and proud every time the five-star red flag is raising and the national anthem is playing.

My daughter continued to go to the piano class with her good friend Shuting this morning. She studied and practised every morning, and stayed at home in the afternoon. Before the Olympic Games, she did some reading all by herself in her own room. From August 9, she watched the Olympic events with me at home, practised IPA together with me. During the short rest, she went on to do her simple embroidery. She was very happy. According to her request, we switched on air condition in my bedroom, tonight she slept there. She usually goes to bed at 9pm on time.

My wife was off the night shift today and had a good rest at home. Besides watching the Olympic events, she does not stop doing her simple embroidery happily.

Today my daughter finished learning four vowels well. According to the study plan, we finish only two phonems each day, but because of her much progress, we learned two more phonemes, and she also did very well in grasping them. She is a very clever girl, but sometimes a little careless. But to my great pleasure, she knows her shortcoming and tries to correct it.

During three days, we are very proud of our players' fabulous performances. I am very excited and touched evry times the five-star red flag is raising and the national anthem is played in every competition venues or stadiums. Today, our players have bagged three gold medals in weightlifting and diving.
The seventh gold is from our defending champion Chen Yanqing. There is no doubt that Chen seized this gold, not any controversially, in women' s 58kg class weightlifting. She defended her championship of this event she crowned in 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
In the afternoon, Lin Yue and Huo Liang, another two debutants, won the men's 10m platform synchronized event with a greater advantage of victory over a pair of Russian players.
In the evenig, Zhang Xiangxiang's fabulous performance brought us the ninth gold for our delegaion in men's 62kg class weightlifting. He bagged this gold medal with an absolute advantage.

I am very very proud of our country's strength and her great achievements. I will have a gooood sleep and a gooooood dream tonight.

I wish our great motherland prosperous and strong and her people well-being.