That's right folks, it's time for another EAP trip, this time to Chengde and the Great Wall at JinShan Ling (in Hebei province) and SiMaTai (in Beijing). That means, of course, that I'll probably have long gaps in between posts which will make following the trip unneccessarily difficult for my readers, but I'm sorry, I'm studying!

That being said, here's the Olympic stadium under construction as of July 27, 2006. Originally, the plan was to finish all the Olympic venues a year early, in 2007 just to show how much Beijing had it together better than Athens. But everyone decided to hold their horses and now some of the venues will be completed as late as early 2008.
EAP China! Robert Klein.