The basketball game...and the guy on the loo!

When I visited Tongren last weekend, the train security staff noticed a multi tool in my washbag.  It was confiscated and sent to my friend.  My friend's friend, the one who took me out to my first barbecue.  She brought the tool back to Jiangkou for me.  I contacted her late last night and she invited me to pick it up.  She would be MC at a basketball tournament.  The game was between employees of the bank and some local government. Even the cheerleaders were bank employees.  Now there's a place to work!  I decided to go to the basketball game, not the bank!  Basketball is a very popular game here in China. There was however one surprise.  I'd been warned about this, but this was my first 'first-hand' expereince of it.  I just popped out to the loo.  As I entered, directly opposite me, squatting down and using his phone was a guy 'doing his business'.  Came as a bit of a surprise to me, but not to him... he didnt bat an eyelid! 
Anyhiow,  here are some videos of the game...and the cheerleaders!

The Cheerleaders...strangely I have a longer video of this but there is 100mb video limit here!
The following videos are of the opeing ceremony and prematch. I actually watched the games, and the cheerleaders,  and didn't take too many photos!  For a company game, it was quite a good standard!






After all this I even got take out to lunch and ate the best beef noodles I've had so far!  Thans Dan!
People are just so freindly!

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