There's no need to go to the school tuck shop to purchase Candy, Silverboy, when you can get you can get bingzi from that woman with a stall just outside the school gates. You know, the one that has been giving you that come hither look for the past year. The very one to whom you cannot chat with because your Mandarin is too limited. I'm joking but what i mean to say is, we should not resort to our English speaking students for the sake of getting galvanised, learning the language, and then being able to cast our nets further afield. Dumplings could even be on the menu.