4.5 hours!!! Are you kidding me? Although I think London did a great job, Matt Lauer and his co-anchor were boring. I appreciated what London did with the history of the United Kingdom and even became teary eyed when the kids were singing songs from each country, especially the hymn from Wales. The music section was fun although Sir Paul McCartney should give it up. And... Where was Sir Elton John? The bicycle butterflies were also kinda cool, but 4.5 hours?
The good news is that my time was not completely wasted. Twitter updates and GoogleReader feeds were followed while I used my time to go over the materials from the various workshops I attended this summer. Plus, I went through my schedules from each unit I taught last year and tried to figure out the chronological order of what I taught last year. Although it doesn't necessarily prepare me for this year, it gave me something to do and think about.
I also thought about the commercials and the Olympic athletes. IMHO, the McDonalds commercials were disrespectful to the work of the athletes. Although I'm not a fan of Nike in general, I did appreciate their commercial and new saying, Find Your Greatness. It may have a place in my beginning of the year stuff. As for the athletes, I worry about those athletes that are fasting for Ramadan. I worry about the tiny gymnasts. I worry about the women who are finally able to participate (in head covering) in the Olympics while still being treated poorly in their own country. I worry about the amount of money spent on the Olympics instead of...
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