Give us some info about the pics!  It looks like you're poking something with a stick to see if its dead!   Perhaps an athletic director??

Hilarious...I am standing in the Baoding Military Square using a calligraphy brush.  The old man to my right was delighted to teach me how to write some characters...we were writing using water on the marble of the square.  The last pic is actually sideways and I did not know how to rotate it...again, I am pretty limited when everything on the computer is written in Chinese.