Our visit to NNU's satellite campus, part II: After we had dinner with the NNU students, our GPC students were invited to do a panel session for them. The auditorium was full of two or three hundred Chinese undergraduates, and they were all encouraged to ask our students questions about American life and our impressions of China. This was a really fun night! The atmosphere was very informal and the Chinese students had a really good time asking us their questions (in very good English, I might add) and laughing at some of our students' replies. On this trip to China, I've been hearing a Chinese word that I've never heard on previous trips--"sui bian." It means "informal" or "casual" and several times, when asking a Chinese person what I should do in a certain situation, they have replied with a smile, "sui bian!" In spite of the apparent censorship of my blog here, I'm impressed with this new "sui bian" (i.e. casual) attitude in China, and I hope that it is the spirit of "sui bian" that catches on here. It certainly seemed to prevail on our fun and very free-wheeling panel session with NNU students.