Sunday, August 24. 2008 Fine

Curtains closing on Beijing Games

Today my daughter stayed at home because of Sunday, and my wife had a rest at home from night work. At 10 am, my daughter and I went to enrol at Yicai Middle School. At first begining, we did not succeeded in enrolling because we did not have two recently-taken and no-caps photos of one cun and the copies of the residence permit and property ownership certificate. And then immediately I went to copy the permit and the certificate and daughter went home to fetch her photos. I was very unlucky that there is not a photocopying house near my school, so I had to walk south a long way to have the copy. And then, I went back to the school gate and met my daughter to go together to Yicai Middle School to complish our task of enrolling. And then everyghing went very well, and we completed the task of registration successfully and smoothly.

After that, I telephoned my wife at home to come downstairs and we went home together. Before we started out home, we went to the market first and payed for a just-killed chichen. And then my wife and daughter went to frame and mount their pieces of embroidery they had finished two days before. I first went home alone. But we promised that we would meet at home.

Our main intenti0n to return home is to visit my younger brother's new house that just had been built a short time before. He is a good and clever man and himself designed his two-storey new house. It was about four months before it was finally built. There we found that they had moved some furniture into the new house. After we knew that they did not have a very big wallmirror, we gave him 500 yuan to pay for a big wallmirror. And then we visited every room of his new house, and my little nephew, only about five years old, is very glad that he can have a large high-rise to live in. At about 3 pm, we had a party meal with our parents, my brother and his family, and then chatted a lot of homely words with my parents, and at about 4 pm, we said goodbye to them and went back home happily.

I am very happy that my parents are very well and they are living a very happy life and everything at home is going very well and smoothly, and my brother and his family are also leading a sweet and happy life. You are very happy when you are feeling that you are feeling very happy. So the biggest happiness is that you are feeling that you are happy!!

On the closing day of the Olympic Games, our excellent players continued their marvelous performances at the venues that brought us two gold medals in the boxing event. Zou Shiming bagged his first ever gold medal in men's 48kg class boxing title, and Zhang Xiaoping stormed to men's 81kg boxing crown, which is the 51rt and also last gold medal of our delegation.

In the gold medal list, our country topped with 51 gold, 21 silver and 28 bronze; the United States second with 36 gold, 38 silver and 36 bronze; Russia third with 23 gold, 21 silver and 28bronze; and the United Kingdom fourth and Germany 5th.

At 8 pm, the closing ceremony began amid a display of fireworks that form a huge circle in the sky which symbolizes the complete success of the Beijing Games. In our traditional Chinese culture, circle is a symbol of perfection, harmony and renewal. The countdown to the closing ceremony started from the number 29, indicating 29th Olympic Games. And all the audience joined the countdown from10, while the numbers were displayed by firework explosions in the high night sky.

During the 16 days, friends from all sides, get together as in a big family, with friendly competiton, harmonious coexitence. They compete fair, just and open, and enhance understanding and promote friendship between them and their countries that they belong to. Thus, in such a warm and harmonious environment, 38 worl records that have been broken, and 85 Olympic records have been broken. Beijing Olympic Games, as a great Olympic Games, will find its exclusive place in the history of the development fo modern Olympic Games and will eventually be recorded in history.