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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 

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.

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  • Who: Scott Sanders
  • When: 8-22-1981
  • Scott Sanders is a PhD student in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. His research interests lie in how people use communication technologies to build and maintain interpersonal relationships.

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