Cloudy in Beijing Blogging about my time in China

Software vs. Electronics

The school has been holding basketball competitions out on the courts these days. Each academic department has their own team. Today I caught this match between the Software and Electronics teams.

It was a pretty organized event with refs, scoreboards, and team designated uniforms. But instead of speakers, a Chinese drum on the sidelines thundered along, rallying the students to chants of fangshou (defense) and jiayou (come on!).

Team Software (red uniforms) started off well. But after the half, it wasn't much of a contest. The final score was 21-34, with Electronics taking the win.

I saw no Yao Mings on any of these teams. But a lot of these guys can play, and some are fairly tall.  I remember one foreign teacher telling me that upon arriving in China, he had hoped to practice his kung-fu with his students. But to his surprise, he soon learned that very few of them had much interest in martial-arts. Instead, they all played basketball.