Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Lu Yuan has been in the United States for more than four weeks, and the child has strong learning ability, and he has slowly adapted to the study and life here.

In more than four weeks, Lu Yuan's English level has improved by leaps and bounds, and he has basically achieved barrier-free daily communication, and can read general textbooks at the same time.

Of course, if the other party speaks too fast, has too much accent, and has too much slang, he will still be forced to guess by his own reasoning. As well as some highly specialized textbooks and advanced books, it still seems to be very difficult.

In comparison, Lu Yuan's basketball level has not improved much - at least Lu Yuan himself feels so, because since joining the Wilson High School basketball team, they have not won a game, which makes Lu Yuan very frustrated, which is completely different from the situation of consecutive victories in China.

On the one hand, Lu Yuan's teammates are still very vegetable, and everyone has relatively big flaws. For example, Panson is too slow, Noel is too fat, Limberd is too thin, and Marinka is too weak, and these weaknesses are combined to make the physical fitness not good.

In high school, many sports are about physical fitness, especially in the United States, where some black players are as physical as beasts at a young age, and in high school competitions, it is easy to have physical crushing and useless skills.

This pole player in Wilson High School is the leftovers of mediocre physical fitness who were eliminated by the first batch of various schools. In school, those who are physically gifted basically choose to play football, and basketball is not cared for at all.

Although Lu Yuan's arrival has changed the face of the team to a certain extent, if it can't bring victory, the team's spirit and the enthusiasm of the students will soon be exhausted.

On the other hand, under Teresa's training, Lu Yuan felt that his physical condition was gradually improving, but his technical level did not seem to have changed, and he did not learn new techniques, such as dribbling, layups, dunks, jump shots, and three-pointers.

Lu Yuan once proposed to Teresa that he wanted to learn the backward jumper, but he was beaten by Teresa with a hairy chestnut and couldn't find the north, so he was punished for practicing a mid-range catch-and-shoot jumper plus 100 push-ups for an hour.

Since then, Lu Yuan has given up the idea of learning new skills, and honestly follows Teresa to exercise and practice basic skills.

Time is coming to the end of March in a flash, and for Lu Yuan, there are two things that he is most concerned about.

One is about basketball.

In March and April, when the national college basketball event was at its hottest, high school basketball was relatively silent.

Basketball in the U.S. is also seasonal, with the NBA starting in November and culminating in the Finals in June. College basketball peaks in March, while high school basketball begins in the summer, when students start competing at its best.

But this does not mean that American high school basketball is lonely, and in March and April, high school basketball has also had major events.

Unlike colleges and the NBA, there is no unified league in high school basketball in the United States, and not only do states across the country have their own leagues, but there are also many self-organized leagues and sponsor-organized games.

Among these self-organized league and sponsorship games, two of the most influential are the McDonald's All-American High School Star Game and the AAU American Amateur Basketball League.

This year's McDonald's All-American High School Star Game announced the roster at the end of March, and those who can enter this list are not the famous basketball talents in the United States in high school, and those who do not enter the list do not necessarily have no strength.

The McDonald's All-American High School All-Star Game will be held in San Francisco, and it will have the same three-point, skill and dunk contest as the NBA All-Star Game, plus a main game, which can be described as exciting.

Lu Yuan, as a transfer student, the school is too bad, of course, he is not qualified to participate in the competition, but he just watched the propaganda on TV and the Internet, and his heart itched.

First, I really wanted to take a look at the scene to see what level the top high school students in the United States were; second, I wanted to know how big a gap there was between myself and those American geniuses. In the past, he thought that he could watch the water dispenser and get $1 million a year, but now he can only get $800,000.

However, there are more than 700 kilometers from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and the plane is too expensive, the car is too slow and too far, plus the ticket money, but it is a lot of expenses, which makes Lu Yuan lose his hair.

Although he thought that he could get $800,000 a year in the future, before he got an annual salary of 800,000 yuan, Lu Yuan thought that he would have to save money for a hundred years.

Lu Yuan thought about working part-time to earn money, but the basketball team training and gym training made Lu Yuan have no time to work.

And in addition to basketball, there is another thing that he cares about more, and that is the language class exam.

At the end of March, Lu Yuan is about to usher in his first language exam, and if he successfully passes, he will be able to say goodbye to the language class and officially start his study career at Wilson High School.

In more than four weeks, Lu Yuan has spent a lot of effort on English, and his speaking, listening, and reading have improved in an all-round way, and his grades can be said to be the best in the seven-person class.

Ms. Popper, who did not pretend to him at first, gradually fell in love with this China boy, he not only studied seriously and was enthusiastic, but also had a rare sense of humor - Ms. Popper did not know that Lu Yuan's sense of humor mainly came from his blind guessing when he could not understand words.

The relationship between the little African brother Labo and Lu Yuan is quite good, and Lu Yuan now knows that the Labo family is the chief of a Congolese tribe, and he is the third son of the chief's 11th wife, and the reason why he can come to the United States is because he has no interest in inheriting the position of chief.

As for that Chu Yuanliang, he is from Zibo, Shandong, and his family is just an ordinary salary, and he was sent to the United States through a lot of effort, but a semester has passed, and he still hasn't passed the language test. It's not because he doesn't study well or has a bad foundation, but because his psychological quality is too poor, and he doesn't perform well in every exam.

It dragged on to the second semester, and there was no room for error, so he buried himself in studying every day, played table tennis at most, and prayed that this exam would be painful.

As for the two girls, Gu Zimei and Korean Gu Mi-hyun, their main interests are in dealing with local Americans, Gu Zimei likes to play with hip-hop street youth, and Gu Mi-hyun always wants to squeeze into the circle of middle- and high-class family students.

As for the two Middle Eastern tycoons, they were not in sight, and soon after arriving at the school, they bought a Lamborghini sports car, which often disappeared in the morning.

In addition to these seven people, Lu Yuan also knew a Chinese student, a long-haired girl named Tang Mi who was ghostly at the door of the class on the first day of school, and she was Taiwanese.

Since Lu Yuan came to prominence in the school basketball game, this girl took the initiative to contact Lu Yuan, added his contact information, and chatted with him from time to time.

Lu Yuan is usually very busy, and there are enough people to chat with every day, so he doesn't have the time to greet this Tang Mi, and he always feels that "there is nothing to do, and it is either a traitor or a thief," after chatting with Wang Yourong one day, the two agreed that it was best to ignore this girl.

But this Tang Mi doesn't mind Lu Yuan's indifference, as long as she has the opportunity, she will chat about it, and occasionally meet Lu Yuan at school, she will take the initiative to say hello, and slowly Lu Yuan is also a little embarrassed, but the two are a little familiar.

After that, Tang Mi often appeared near the language class, and she had a very good relationship with Gu Meixian, and seemed to be a person in a circle.

Tang Mi had the intention of pulling Lu Yuan into their circle, but every time Lu Yuan refused, he had too many things to worry about, and he didn't have the heart to join those international student groups.

On Friday, March 29th, the day of the test in Wilson High School's language class, Lu Yuan completed the four contents of the ESL test in listening, reading, writing and speaking, which is considered to have completed the language study after coming to the United States.

After the exam, Lu Yuan only felt relaxed, he didn't care much about the results, anyway, as long as the exam was over, Lu Yuan would no longer care about it.

In comparison, Chu Yuanliang still had a sad face and a worried look after the exam, while Gu Zimei and Gu Meixian, who also took the exam for the second time, still looked indifferent.

Now that he has finished the exam, Lu Yuan decided to go to the restaurant with the African little brother Rapo to eat something delicious, but at the door of the classroom, Lu Yuan met Tang Mi again.

"Hi, Lu Yuan, have you finished the exam?" Tang Mi stepped forward to greet Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan just waved at her, and reluctantly said hello, wondering in her heart, why does this Tang Mi always run to the language class, is it because she is too handsome?

However, Lu Yuan is still a little self-aware, like that Vera Oliver approached him because he played basketball well, and this Tang Mi had no interest in basketball, Lu Yuan could also feel that the two of them were not the same kind of people at all, and they couldn't find a common topic at all, and many times it was this Tang Mi who came together.

Lu Yuan never figured it out, so he had to temporarily think that he was too handsome.

In the face of Lu Yuan's coldness, Tang Mi still stepped forward and said: "Lu Yuan, I hope you get a good score in the exam, how about it, it's coming soon, do you have any plans?"

"What else can you do when you play basketball? Lu Yuan replied.

"Sure enough, it's basketball, Lu Yuan, you like basketball so much, do you want to go to San Francisco on the weekend?"

"San Francisco?"

Tang Mi suddenly mentioned San Francisco, which surprised Lu Yuan, because he knew that this year's McDonald's High School All-Star Game would be held in San Francisco tomorrow, and Lu Yuan wanted to go, but he was suffering from no money, and he was embarrassed to mention it to Jensen, and he was ready to watch the All-Star Game on TV on the weekend.

As soon as Tang Mi said this, Lu Yuan suddenly felt a little moved, but when he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong, so he asked, "Why did you invite me to go? I don't know you well." ”

Tang Mi was still not angry about Lu Yuan's indifference, but smiled and said: "It's not me who invited you, it's the president of our club who invited you, and you refused to invite you to join the club." It just so happens that our club is going to San Francisco to watch the McDonald's All-Star Game, so please come along. ”

Lu Yuan heard this Tang Mi mention this president a few times, I don't know what kind of character it is, Lu Yuan is indeed a little itchy, after all, being able to go to San Francisco to watch the highest level of high school student competition in the United States is a temptation that he can't refuse.

"When are you going?"

"I'll leave this afternoon. ”