When Olymic Games is comming to the town

Eight o’clock in the evening, the streets in this city with 3milliom population is empty.
No pedestrians wondering alone the road to enjoy their daily after-lunch walk, no sideway fruit sellers out for their last deal of the day. Most of the stores are closed hours before their close time. It’s not the New Years Eve when people nesttle at home with their family and friends, nor do the people take exodus; it’s the August 8, 2008 in China, the evening for opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games.

People finish their work early and come home to watch the live opening ceremonies on TV. Their expectations for the performances on the ceremony are soaring, as high as the index of their economy. A scarlet dancing man, the Olympic symbol become an everyday decoration in every city in China, on clothes and windows, jewelrys and road signs.

A gathering of the world is what modern Olympic games for. This times, however, it's a show of China to many Chinese.

The volunteers of the Beijing Olympic game is exorbitantly 170000, more than two times larger than the Athens, 70000. The major source of which comes from University students because they’re the only group of people that can speak English well enough to communicate with the foreign travelers. What may surprise the world, although the number is large, the enthusiasm of Chinese is so intense that there pose no difficulty at all to recruit such a group. College students from all around the nation have applied to serve the games, but only those in Beijing were accepted. In fact, dating back to two or three times ago, when the students were choosing the place for college, to volunteer for Olympic were in their minds during decision making.

To welcome the Olympic Games, the whole country is like the symbol, dancing in exhilaration, waving their hands to welcome the world.