the bird nest under construction

the bird nest under construction

rejected entrance

after we showed up with all our hard hats, the class was told they will not be able to get inside the bird nest. "permissions had been passed on to the olympics committee." we resort to getting shots of the exterior, with our hard hats on of cou

debriefing

the students were given some briefing. the head engineers of this office were so young!

there it is

there it is

souvenir shot

our souvenir shot

ian on the job

ian on the job

the students were fascinated by us.

the students were fascinated by us. we're now outside the "water cube"

the guards

the guards.

the laowais couldn't be stopped..

this poor guard got yelled at by when his higher-up saw a huge group of lao-wais (foreigners) wandering into the site. "i told them to stop by they just kept going..." he didn't seem to care too much either way.