Female academics successfully in Harbin after a difficult flight.
The Czech team of female academics that set out on the journey to the 2009 World Winter Universiade has arrived at the venue. The whole Universiade expedition, which included figure skaters together with our players and their coach, made stopovers in Frankfurt and Beijing and landed in frosty Harbin after noon local time. Already at the airport there were several ice sculptures and a few were visible on the way to the athlete's village. Then the routine - accreditation, accommodation, lunch, short meeting with the expedition management. Everything seems to be in order, there are a lot of Chinese men and women everywhere, who don't have good English all the time, but the helpfulness makes up for everything. Tomorrow we will have our first and last training session before the first match, which is scheduled for Wednesday at 9.00 local time, i.e. 2.00 our Czech time. Due to accent problems, this post originally looked like the whole first part, but I've corrected some of it and left some of it so I remember that it happened.
rnphoto: female academics at Beijing airport