Sunday, August 10, 2008 Sunny and hot

Today is a happy Sunday.

My daughter did not go to the piano class held for children during the summer holidays because she only goes to the class six times from Monday to Saturday, and have one day off to have a good rest. Today we studied two middle vowel phonemes; she did very well in practising them. Her mother had a rest from the night shift today, so also happoly joined her in practising them together. They both made a gooooood performance and grasped them very well.

After that, they continued the knitting and embroidery that lasted one week now. They both have to be Zhinvs with a kind mind and quick and nimble fingers.

And at the same time, we watched the Olympic events. Today we have successfully seized four gold medals in the four different events. The third gold medal is from Guo Wenjun, another debutant of the Olympics, who won it in women's 10m air pistol and smashed Olympic record to crown. She had a marvelous performance. The fourth one is from our world and Olympic champions Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia who took the limelight of the Water Cube together as they retained their women's three-meter springboard synchronized gold. Guo and Wu took the lead after the second round in the final to collect 343.50 points, beating their closest rivals from Russia, who posted 323.61, by almost 20 points. Much to our delight, Xian Dongmei successfully defended her championship in women's 52kg class Judo event and seized the fifth gold to crown.
Another Olympic debutant Long Qingquan topped the men's 56kg class weightlifting in the evening and contributed a gold medal to our delegation.

Now we have received 6 gold medals and 2 silver medals and 8 medals in all. Our player compatriots have made s fantastic and amazing performance on the first two days. People throughtout the country have hailed their great efforts for the grand and marvelous achievements and outstanding and excellent performance and display in the Olympic Games.

We are all proud of them and theri fantastic and amazing performances.