It's a picture of a typical rural one-room schoolhouse, with kids in multi-colored clothing contrasting with the mud-brown walls.

Todd is working for an NGO somewhere near Qinghai. Check out the picture of a Chinese classroom somewhere near Golmud in his post on a typical week in his life. It reminds me of a picture I saw taken in a schoolhouse during the Nixon visit to China in 1972. The other day Jodi and I were looking at images I've saved on my computer, and one prompted her to say that if she has a lot of money someday, she'd like to go out to a rural area to teach for a year. It about made me burst.