A heated and sunny Olympic torch relay in Bangkok(2)

　　The temperature is around 40 clesius degree here, as this is the hot season in Thailand, but it did not block people from fluxing into the China Town.

　　The China Town area is normally crowded, but it was especially so today, as tourists from different countries, Chinese expatriates and students, and other spectators swammed into the Yaowarat Road to witness the "once-in-a-lifetime event" in many eyes.

　　"It is very good opportunity for Thai people to be able to be engaged in such an international grand event," Pornwarin Nutrawong,a nurse tutor and one of the 80 torch bearers selected from all walks of life in Thailand to run the Olympic torch relay in Bangkok.

　　A nurse tutor who is known for her voluntary devotion to caring for final-stage patients, Pornwarin was excited about being a torch bearer.

　　"Everyone is excited here. My collegues and friends at my hospital have came to cheer for me and witness the relay, some 200hundreds of them."

　　"It is my only regret that my patients could not be here. But they are happy for me," said the nurse.

　　Dozens of Chinese students from Thai universities have traveled from different parts of country to show their support for the Beijing Olympic Games, waiving a huge national flag of China and chanting slogans like "Go Beijing Olympics."

　　Liang Qingqing, a senior student from Burapha University in Chonburi Province near Bangkok, told Xinhua that she and her schoolmates had been here since the morning, and planned to run through the torch relay route.