I arrive in China on August 9th, one day after the Olympics start. I’m flirting with the idea of trying to go. There are numerous problems with this flirtation.
1) It will be my first week in China and I should be looking for a place to live and preparing for my new job. Responsible and boring but true.
2) I don’t have Olympic tickets. And I’ve heard they are hard to get. And sneaking in to an event where the consequence is the Chinese legal system looses some of the romantic rebel sheen that it has here in the US.
3) I will be flying into Shanghai, which is an 11 hour train ride (according to one google search) from Beijing.
4) I don’t know anybody so this will be a solo, flying by the seat of my pants adventure.
Clearly it is not the smart decision to go. But it is the OLYMPICS. And they are in China. This whole clash of competition, materialism and excess with the communist values of simplicity and functionality is guaranteed to be interesting.
Let me know with the olympics poll.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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