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Wang TianYi, a student from Beijing Middle School #15, came to visit for a week. Joey stayed with TianYi's family when he was in Beijing. The Chinese students came with 'adopted' English names, so the American students called TianYi "Bill". |
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This was a photo in the Tulsa World the day after the Chinese students and teachers arrived. |
| TianYi was an American boy while he was here. Here are Dave, TianYi, Joey, and Robbie playing basketball in our driveway. |
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All the students and teachers who participated in the China-US student exchange had dinner together at a local restaurant. The kids are standing with the principal of Byrd Middle School, Garry Nichols. |
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The students went to a Driller's baseball game while they were here. |
| We decided to take TianYi out on the same outings we would take our own boys. So we took him to shoot skeet. |
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I don't know how this happened, but there were a lot of boys at my house one afternoon. They were still there at dinner time, so I fed them all. |
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We went to eat at a typical American restaurant -- Fuddrucker's. A hamburger place. |
| Judy, Joey, TianYi, Dave, and Robbie. Robbie is Joey's best friend. This is why he is often with us. |
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TianYi's family probably eats more American fast food than we do. He's used to eating pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and McDonald's. But I'm not sure he's ever had a root beer. |
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Another typical American outing..... miniature golf! Joey, Robbie and TianYi had a good time. |
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There was some ceremony before the Driller's game that day, and the Chinese teachers presented our Mayor with a gift. Here is Vice Principal Wang, one of the Chinese teachers (who happens to speak great English), Mr. Nichols, and Mayor Bill LaFortune. |
| When Joey was in China, he played ping-pong with TianYi and his dad. Joey is very proud of the fact that he won (since he's only half-Chinese, and only has half the good ping-pong playing gene!) TianYi and Joey had a re-match at our house. I don't know who won. |
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I cooked some Chinese food while TianYi was here. But sometimes, we just had American food. (Is pizza an "American" food?) |
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