Thursday, August 21, 2008 Heavy rainy

Today it was raining very heavily from last night till now. So my daughter did not go to the piano class because of the heavy rain, and stayed at home and finished another two consonants. And then, she ddi some more reading in her own room, after that, she watched the Olympic events. She always goes to surf the internet at about 11:30am every day during the summer holidays. My wife rested at home from work and continued her embroidery job, and I think it will not be a long time before she finishes it.

This evening, there was a major women’s vollerball competition, our volleyball team agaist the Brazilian volleyball team. If our team wins the game, we will enter the finals. We were all looking forward to its coming and expecting that our women’s volleyball team could have an excellent and amazing performnace. And we all expected that our volleyball team succeeded in defending the title.

But unfortunately, at about 6:30pm, there was a thunderstorm, raining cats and dogs and lasting about one hour, with lightning and thunder. So after a short time, TV signals were cut off and we could not have a good chance to watch the volleyball match. Finally, our women volleryball team was defeated by the women Brazilian team with a big score of 0:3 because of not our hails of fans. We lost the defending and we are very saddened for their failure. However, we are always supporting our women volleyball team as usual with our great enthusiasm.

Today our delegation seized only one gold in women’s 10m platform singles event. In the first four rounds, our player, Chen Ruolin, was left behind a Canadian player and ranked second, and her teammate, Wang Xin, finished third. But in the last round diving, Chen gave a marvelous and perfect dive and overtook her rival and made the final victory. This is the 46th gold of our delegation.

I am very proud of our players’ marvelous achievement in the games though they could get more gold medals. .