Last Thursday evening, our GPC group was invited to spend some time with students from Nanjing Normal University's satellite campus, a very new and modern looking development about 30 minutes outside of Nanjing. We watched some Chinese guys shoot baskets while conversing with our hosts, mostly students studying to prepare themselves to teach Chinese-as-a second-language in foreign countries. They told us of the predicament of some of their classmates who have justrecently travelled to Thailand to teach Chinese in Thai primary schools. The Chinese student-teachers were distressed to find that their upcountry Thai pupils spoke no English, leaving them without any common language of communication--a challenge they were not expecting. I had fun watching the Chinese guys in the photo to the left play ball. The guy in the yellow shirt was the shortest, so he played the hardest. It was good sportsmanship and good drama as well.