Before the Olympics started, Olympic volunteers were newsworthy, especially ones learning to write “I love China” in traditional calligraphy. While going through my rigorous training leading up to the Olympics at the basketball Cube, my opportunistic supervisor jumped on the chance to get her two trainees on tv and in front of who knows how [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Beijing'
My CCTV Debut
December 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Beijing · Beijing Olympics Program · China · China Central Television · Mandarin · Olympics · travel
China Pollution and my Lungs in Beijing, part 2 – the Follow-up
November 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
So back in June when I was preparing for my 3 month trip to Beijing, I was utterly worried about the pollution in the city and what long-term effects it would have on my lungs (see China Pollution and my Lungs in Beijing). I packed four items to help out and now that I’m back [...]
Tags: Beijing
Adidas, Beijing and the Olympics
November 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
This past Wednesday, I presented with two other Emerson Integrated Marketing Communication graduate students on marketing and China. Being a broad subject, and we’re far from experts, we focused on what we were most exposed to as Olympic volunteers and that was the Olympic sponsors. I thought I’d share with you my portion of the [...]
