Did you know...?

...that the cuddly Fuwa Olympic mascots are called

* Beibei (fish)

* Jingjing (panda)

* Huanhuan (olympic flame)

* Yingying (tibetan tschiru)

* Nini (swallow)

- which means = Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni = "Beijing welcomes you"

when you put the abbreviated names together. I read this today somewhere - you can tell that I am not too eager to staying on top of my mandarin homework, otherwise I should have known already ;-)