Rui Niu, Kang Li and Kevin (Li JingShuo)

August 2, 2005 Wednesday night, Kevin joined his host family for the Indian Hills (Okemos subdivision) National Night Out neighborhood party. Some neighbors discussed street plans while others of us (and Kevin) played water balloon toss, hover disk, and softball.

Here are two pictures of of Kevin, who is quite athletic. In the first one he is getting his first softball stance instruction from Bob Kuehne, President of the Indian Hills Homeowners Association, whose college sport was baseball. Kevin hit some good ones before the evening was done.

In the second one he is holding two of the four hover disks we tossed sort of like soft, uncontrolled boomerangs - high into the air. They then came floating down in unpredictable fashion.

On Saturday, before going to hike the Ledges along the Grand River in Grand Ledge, we went to Wiliamston to visit Chuck and Janie Chestnut and their Belgians and Percherons. Here Kevin is getting acquainted with a three-year-old Belgian mare. Chuck & Jeanie Amboy

Kevin on an outing with Charles Amboy

Kevin at the rapids.

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Dear host family,

My Chinese name is Lee J JinShuo, and you can also can me Kevin as an English name. I'm 17 years old, male. I have mother, father, grandfather, and grandmother.My grandparents live about 1000 metres away ftom us.

I has so many hobbies, such as sports, music, playing computer games and so on. Among I enjoy playing basketball most. The NBA games are so terrific that ['ll watch it every wedcmds. Especially about the Hoston Rockets, of course it's bccause of YAO. And I thmk the Pistons is very good team, too. I'm good at table tennis. I also like playing football. When comes to music, I just like listening but don't sing too much. I prefer popular music.and 1 think the Back Street Boys' songs sound wonderful. I'm interested in reading books, too.

I"m sorry to trouble you when reaches America. I don't care more about food, I can adapt to different kind of foods. And 1 don't snore in the evening.

I want to know what your life is like. It must be vay exciting. Haviog a look at the beautiful scenery of USA is my dream.

I'm looking forward to meeting you.

Sincerely yours,

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