country's debt giving further and further away from spanish-speaking ones. finally on the eight phone call on 1995 when the peace corps call mitt said we are going to send you to china. i said you were kidding me. i am the spanish speaker. officially your the u.s.-china friendship volunteers, because mao tse-tung had slandered a piece of our name is being a puppet agency in the cia in the '60s and '70s the were not officially. >> corso ended up going to china in 1995 without speaking a word of chinese. i ended up in sichuan province in the far southwest of the country. the school had no idea what to do with me. they said come into play basketball? for two years i was the starting center for college basketball team in got to travel in the province. i also train teachers and what not but as many of you know it to study chinese once you start learning the language it is hard

to let go of it in hard to leave so when i moved to beijing in 1997 i was living way up here with this white arrow is. i was living in the northwest suburbs and i was teaching. i would come into the city center here. can someone showed me how to get a red light on this thing? i would come into the city center. this is the forbidden city right here. this is the leadership compound. this is tiananmen square down here, this is the temple of heaven.