Don't let the title fool you...I'm just feeling froggy today.
The gymnastics event last night was fun. I was in the nosebleed section as you can see from the photo, but the gymnasts were good...as is typical from the eastern bloc countries. Ended up sitting next to the husband of one of our reporters who lives in the Chicago suburbs and there was an ex-pat Jewish New York retiree sitting in front of us who kept chatting us up when he heard us speaking English. We had a very boisterous group of Ukranian or Russian fans behind us who liked to drink beer, cheer and sing.
Sounds like I’m going to be working mostly an 8am-5pm shift. Hopefully I can get myself into a better routine now that things are running pretty smoothly (oops, did I just voice that out loud?). It might be easier to work a normal amount of hours instead of spending so many in the office and even maybe eat dinner before 10pm!
Walking around now that the games have started is like being at the United Nations. Everywhere you go, you hear a big variety of different languages being spoken and experience the (ahem) variations on cultural idiosyncrasies that vary, literally, person by person. It's different than when you're traveling to a single country and interacting with their citizens collectively. Here those differences are apparent with almost each different person you interact with...the Chinese being largely an exception to that because they're uniformly rolling out the welcome mat to all the rest of us.
But if you wonder if I might be just a teenie-weenie bit looking forward to returning home, note that I replaced the countdown clock in the top right corner of the blog.
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