This will probably be short...I'm about to teach class. Yesterday I realized that my students hadn't understood the movie I had shown them the day before (The Recruit) so I asked them if they would like to go play football (soccer) in the afternoon. They jumped at the opportunity. We met in the room at 2:40 and biked over to the pitch. These kids were all really good. I mean scary good. I wasn't about to be able to keep up. I did have a few advantages though. I outweigh many of them by about twenty to thirty pounds and when they come barreling into me they loose their footing.
Since being in China I haven't seen anyone take off their shirt for any reason, even sports so I was hoping that I wouldn't offend my students by peeling my off by the time I got to the pitch. To my surprise they were already dividing into shirts and skins when I got there. Other teachers have told me they couldn't get their kids to do that but mine did it on their own.