Booey Lehoo Arts Week is underway!

Game On!!!  This past Saturday, we officially kicked off the Booey Lehoo Arts Week at the Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) with a 16×16 Basketball Tournament with our Chinese and American students.  Eight boys from the Boston Unified School District were invited to participate in this special friendly basketball tournament along with eight students from WAB and sixteen students from two Chinese high schools.  Former NBA All-Star Jamal Mashburn flew in all the way from Kentucky to lend his support and explain to the young men how he has used basketball as a vehicle to succeed in all facets of his life.

I was hoping for a little game of “one on one” with “Monster Mash,” but we were both a bit too busy between catching the exciting matches and capturing footage for Booey Lehoo…

Later that day after we wrapped up the basketball tournament, the Booey Lehoo Arts Week continued with a book reading between Chinese and American authors followed by an evening organized by Project 朋友 for Americans studying and working in China to network and get together.

Yesterday, we made our way to the Great Wall to watch hip hop dancer Marquis Scott take the stage on one of the Seven Wonders of the World.  For some of the students from Boston, this was their first time outside of the US, and they were pumped to have the opportunity to visit this awesome historical site!

Later…Marquis Scott took to the stage and tore it up on the wall!

And after I wrapped up my shots for the day…

…I shared with Marquis Scott my limited repertoire of dance moves that I picked up from Dance Central on Kinect!

We then returned to WAB for a special evening of dance performances with Ping Pong Productions.  Everyone in the audience was treated to an anthology of different styles of dance…

Marquis also shared with me his impressions for being in China for the first time…

Well, that’s another day and night of the Booey Lehoo Arts Week in the history books as we inch closer towards the big concert this coming Saturday, December 17th, at the Beijing Indoor National Stadium.  If you and your friends would like to check it out, then click on over to http://www.booeylehoo.com to get the full scoop!

I just realized I need to roll out soon for another day of Booey Lehoo so see you again soon!