It rained this morning, which will hopefully help clear the pollution in the next few days. So, I decided to head off to the Beijing Capital Museum on the west side of town.
Unfortunately, the museum happened to be closed for "Olympic-related preparations", although I caught a glance of some swanky-looking foreign-ish officials walking out of the museum. So maybe they're just showing it off.
Close by the museum was Beijing's oldest Catholic church, built pre-Qing dynasty in the 1600s by an Italian. There, I ran into some more officials- it looked like the entire Phillipine Olympic delegation was attending mass there.
From walking around the streets for a few hours, it was cool to see the masses of volunteers, security guards, and traffic monitors. When I stopped by a volunteer tent to get Olympic maps and schedules, they swarmed me.
Also, my friends got coffee at McDonald's, where almost every seat was filled by local Chinese people, eyes glued to the TV watching a Chinese female gymnast. Hanging in the McDonald's were signs that said "McDonald's-let's go China, 24 hours/day"
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