since july 13th , 2001, the time when the former president of International Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch declared to the whole world that Beijing was to hold the 2008 Olympic Games, we've been waiting too long and too anxiously for this exciting moment.
now, it comes, bearing 1.3 billion Chinese people's hope. Torch relay excited tens of thousands of Chinese of each city which had been honored with the holy relay.
is it that the Beijing Olypic gives China too much joy which even the Father God cannot allow? Or is it that He is jealous towards us? Anyhow, as a Chinese saying goes "the moon waxes only to wane, water brims only to overflow", after the initial excitement, the Father God no longer blesses us but dumps us by a disastrous earthquake.
As known to all, the Wenchuan earthquake has claimed more than 60 thousand people's lives! During the three-day National Disaster Day, torch relay was paused, any national entertainment was canceled, the whole nation stopped to mourn for the quake victims, silently and sincerely.
The 2008 Olympic and the Sichuan earthquake, these two alone seem to have rendered China the happiest and the most grievous country at the same time. But no matter what should happen to her, we have reasons to believe that China can never be defeated, for union is strength.
Year 2008 has witnessed the union of Chinese people and the incomparable strength it created to withstand the power of the devastating power of the abrupt 8.0-magnitude quake bursted out in Wenchuan, Sichuan province.
Year 2008 is special for China, with the Olympic and the quake being the most remarkable things happened in this year. Because both are drawing the entire world's attention, though with one being uttermost happy while another uttermost lamentable.
Year 2008 is a year in which nobody seems possible to live a tranquil life......
