The Sports Meeting

The engineers were the big winners last weekend at Yangzhou Tech’s first annual inter-college Olympics.
The event, which my students described as “The Sports Meeting,” featured an extremely long list of sporting events spread out over two days. These ranged from traditional track and field events to the sort of contests you would expect to find [...]

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What my students know about Barack Obama

1. He’s black.
2. His half-brother lives in Shenzhen. (This was major news in the national press here)
3. He just won the presidential election in America.
4. He beat Hillary Clinton.
Almost no one at the school has heard of John McCain, but there are quite a few students here who are still bummed out about Hillary losing [...]

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