Olympic Enthusiasm

In the last post, I passingly mentioned the excitement in Beijing over the Olympics in August. Well, it is literally everywhere in Beijing. My friend, Grace, took these pictures of this little boy with the symbol shaved into his hair. The only reason I have learned the Chinese word for "zero" ("ling") is because it is the middle two numbers of 2008, the Beijing Olympic year. I had been walking around town with the Beijing Olympic year resounding in my head from all the commercials that I don't understand -- "er-ling-ling-ba, er-ling-ling-ba, er-ling-ling-ba".