Day+6+May+27


 * DAY 6 : May 27**[[image:DSC_0005.JPG width="380" height="252" align="right" caption="Saying goodbye to Sherry and Reagan at Xi'an airport"]]

May 27th (TH): Fly to Shanghai from Xi An ( Flight CA #1215) departs 10:15 AM, arrives 12:15 PM Arrive at WeiYu School, visit classes, overnight in school dorm.
 * __WeiYu High School__**
 * 1 Wei Yu Road**
 * Shanghai 200231**
 * Tel: 011- 86- 21-64960808 Fax: 011 86 21-64962926**

We—all of us—are in Shanghai. Cause for celebration! We still have work to do to get Mike’s passport woes fixed, but we think at this point that we have everything lined up to arrange what is needed in order for him to get home on schedule. In this instance, it has been exceedingly helpful to have extra chaperones. Ms. McNeilly and Ms. Lee took Mike all around Shanghai today trying to move this process forward while Mr. Levinson and I went to the school to get the other boys settled in. Ms. Lee stayed behind at the school tonight so she and our school contact can accompany Mike in the morning to get a necessary report from the local Shanghai police department.

In the meantime…

We left a very rainy Xi’an this morning. Reagan and Sherry reviewed all that we had done during our first days in China. We really have covered a lot of ground in a short period of time. The Xi’an airport was modern and comfortable, but check-in took a very long time. Nevertheless, we left close to on-time and arrived in a much sunnier Shanghai around 2:30. As the boys settled into their rooms, Mr. Levinson and I had a brief tour of the school. The campus is far more modern than Thayer’s but is quite large and very nice. We will visit the classrooms sometime tomorrow or early next week. Other facilities look quite nice, including a large soccer filed / track complex, outdoor basketball and tennis courts, a large indoor pool complex, and a cafeteria (“restaurant”) that accommodates all 1200 students for meals. As I left, the boys were being introduced to their hosts and to a few other students, some of whom are hoping to visit us in the Boston area next fall. The boys will stay in the dorms tonight, shadow their student hosts during the school day tomorrow, and then go their hosts’ homes for the weekend.