Rice and Cuba 15.8

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Before coming to China I knew the chinese eat a lot of rice but I simply couldn't imagine that it was the main component of almost any dish.
My working colleagues have rice for lunch and for dinner. At the hotel most of the chinese folks are always seen eating full blown rice meals as early as 7am.

Infact, I have been having Rice for lunch ever since I started working at the Basketball/Baseball venues and I simply can't smell it any more.
This afternoon my colleague, Olina, took me out to grab a chinese "döner kebap" for a change.
Gosh, memories of my constant visit to the Döner shop at Essen Bahnhof (train station) started playing in my head.

Today's baseball game featured Cuba against the USA and as it is, the whole venue was in a huge frenzy!
The game was tight and long which meant I really had to concentrate a lot working on providing real-time data to the Systems.
Cuba finally won the game to the major disappointment of the Americans. The Americans have now lost 2 games and tensions are rising pretty high here. They must win their next game....

Today is gonna be another long day for me, another 15 hour shift. This means tomorrow is a free day for me. So far I have no plans but I will check out my "Beijing City Guide" to find something interesting to do.