Beijing 2008

American gymnast Shawn Johnson and swimmer Michael Phelps. (source: Flickr)

For the past two weeks, I've been enjoying watching the Beijing Olympics in the evenings. Every day during school everyone would be talking about last night's coverage, and some teachers were making Olympics lesson plans, including a few instances in Spanish that involved translating sentences like Michael Phelps is a good swimmer.

The opening ceremony was really cool, with the giant roll-out LCD screen and the 2008 drummers in unison. Usually the first thing that came on every night was beach volleyball, which is interesting but gets kind of annoying that every night that was all they'd show during prime time. The best volleyball match was the final which, of course, was on much later. Gymnastics and swimming were two of my favorites to watch, especially with Michael Phelps' 8-gold-medal record.

Last Saturday night we went over to my mom's friend Whit's house in Carmel to watch the women's marathon and the final swimming race in which Phelps won his 8^th gold. Tomorrow night we are going to go back over there to watch the men's marathon.