Wexford School of the Arts is located in the Scarborough district of Toronto, it was founded in 1965, after almost 40 years of development, has been quite powerful and famous, has cultivated many later well-known artists, such as Charlie Boyle, Brant Townsend and so on, in recent years there are also new singers Fifi Dobson, young actor Rajiv Shirenda.

However, when Ye Wei and Teacher Flanders visited the school together, they couldn't help but have an idea at first: it's really small.

It should be said that it is medium-sized, with music rooms, gymnasiums, libraries, art centers, theaters, gymnasiums, canteens, etc., but all concentrated in a large two-story building, with a small lawn in front of it, followed by sidewalks and driveways, and a multi-purpose athletic field in the back, surrounded by private houses, and nothing else.

If Lev and Bard saw this, they would have shouted, "There is not even a swimming pool, this is called a school!?", "There is no hope for Canada!"

Compared with the facilities of Harvard-Westlake, whether it is the middle school or the high school, Wexford is indeed incomparable.

But it's not so bad, Ye Wei likes it after visiting, its artistic atmosphere is very strong, especially the art gallery, the corridor is full of students' paintings on both sides, it feels really good, and many facilities are advanced enough, teachers have always been, as long as you study hard, you will definitely have a harvest.

The school is dominated by the arts curriculum and is divided into three departments: Visual and Media Arts, Performing Arts (subdivided into musical drama or drama), and Integrative Arts.

Ye Wei is going to study performing arts-drama, visiting on the morning of the 18th, and passing the interview assessment in the afternoon, and studying in the tenth grade.

His performance has won praise from several teachers, which is not difficult because he is not ignorant of acting, he still has acting experience, and the interview process is not difficult, and as for the "personal work", he submitted the DVD.

Pass guò assessment, go through the formalities, and get a photo-ID in a few days.

The student's name on the ID will be Unique-ku, and the boy in the photo is wearing a pair of wide black-framed glasses, short broken hair that is different from his public image, and a new haircut, which at first glance his family will not recognize, as he never wears glasses outside of his sunglasses.

This was also forced, Ye Wei arrived in Scarborough to feel the face of the place, 57% of the population was born outside of Canada, white 32. 6%, South Asian 22%, Chinese 19. 5%, 10 blacks. 3%...... Brentwood's total number of Asians is just over 10 percent, and the first language in Scarborough is English, followed by Mandarin, Cantonese and Tamil.

As soon as he walked to the Park Village next to the school and the Aijing Pavilion to the north, he was recognized several times, including young people, uncles and aunts.

"You look like Ye Wei, you are Ye Wei!", "viy!", "Hey, are you the ......?"

"It's not. ”

Two of the 10 people are Chinese, so it's no wonder that my parents were relieved when they heard that it was Scarborough.

He had to ask Rachel Zoe's opinion, change his hairstyle and wear glasses, and try his best to disguise himself, so that people who could recognize him were confused, and those who couldn't recognize him told them "I'm Ye Wei", people don't know who Ye Wei is, and he is not a superstar, and in the third Q score survey of 2004 released next month, Brian's prediction for him is 20-30 points, the score of popular starlets.

After the school's formalities are completed, it will be on the homestay family, and the homestay family will be contacted before the arrival, which is really a bit special for him.

For the sake of calm, Ye Wei did not want to live in a community with a large Chinese population, but wanted to live in a place with an average population structure.

For this matter, the school has been a headache, due to the lack of time, it is not so easy to arrange, not to mention those ordinary families who make money from this may not be compatible with genius bad boys, the biggest problem is that the families familiar with the school are now full, and they have long been full.

These days, the school can only hurry up to contact the new families, mainly this year's freshman families, who have the interest of being a host family, a Chinese boy, who has been given nearly ten choices.

Most of them are Asian families, but the most suitable for Ye Wei is a white family who lives in the eastern neighborhood of Cliffside, near the lakefront, which is one of the best areas in the whole of Scarborough, with a beautiful environment and good security, and is a 15-20 minute drive from the school.

The family is a generation of immigrants from the Eastern European country of Bulgaria, who have been in Canada for more than ten years, the husband Konstantin is a computer expert, and his wife Mihaela is an artist. They have two children, a 19-year-old son, Alexander, and a ninth-grader daughter.

Because their son is going to college, the couple feels that they have lost something, and when they hear about it, they express great interest.

On the 20th, Ye Wei and Teacher Flender met the middle-aged couple in the reception room of the school, and after a conversation, both sides were quite close to each other, and the conversation was full of laughter until ......

The two listened to Ye Wei tell their true identities, and then vaguely heard that "there is a movie prodigy in the United States" but didn't pay much attention to them, and used their laptops to surf the Internet to get to know each other, they were a little frightened, and they never thought this would happen!

North American box office for a week

August 13-August 19, 2004 -

Movies - Ranking - Number of Weeks - Number of Theaters / Change - Average - Box Office of the Week - Total Box Office -

1st place - week 1 - 3395 - 14,890 - 50,552,611 - 50,552,611-

11th - Week 10 - 563 (+17) - 5,683 - 3,199,381 - 17,323,708 -

12th place - week 3 - 1206 (-957) - 2,444 - 2,421,785 - 16,837,687 -

24th - Week 13 - 371 (-31) - 1,505 - 558,355 - 37,364,017

At the age of 16, the half-debut film with a production fee of 2 million is 37.36 million at the North American box office, and the new film has a budget of 5 million, even if they are not people in the film industry, they know what this means.

There are also all kinds of controversies about viy, such a bad boy star, looking at the smiling Ye Wei, the two really don't know whether it is suitable or not.

"I understand your worries 100%, but I can guarantee that I will not disturb the tranquility of your home, neither work nor life, my work and rest are very regular, my life is very disciplined, and the previous drinking and fighting were just accidental incidents, not my habits. Teacher Flender can attest. ”

Seeing Ye Wei talking and looking over, Teacher Flender was a little speechless for a while: "Weige is in our school...... It's a unique student, sometimes it's a headache, and it's not bad by nature. ”

"Please!" Ye Wei pushed the teacher's shoulder and said with a smile: "Flender, when did I give you a headache, this time?

Konstantin and Mihaela on the sofa opposite couldn't help but laugh, and Mr. Flender looked helpless "you see".

"If you don't believe me, trust my parents, they expect you to watch over me. ”

Ye Wei asked his parents to join the meeting by phone, Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao talked to them a lot enthusiastically, and gradually dispelled their concerns, and the joy returned.

The couple already liked Gu You very much, Ye Wei's easy-going and friendly was not like a bad boy, and in their eyes, this boy was more Gu You than Ye Wei. The two looked at each other and wanted to make up their minds, but Mihaela said, "We thought you were an ordinary student and didn't prepare much. ”

"I'm just an ordinary student! Also, an explorer of art, I'm not a star, ma'am, I'm going to ask you for painting, sir, teach me a computer, if you can." ”

Listening to Ye Wei's sincere words, the two of them were really moved, and Mihaela said happily: "We have a room in the main house, or a small utility room next to the main house for you to live in, which one do you want?"

"Wow, then I want a utility room. Ye Wei was pleasantly surprised, then he had his own independent space, "Thank you! You are really kind and good people." ”

When the matter was decided, Teacher Flender breathed a sigh of relief, and Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao were also happy with this result.

"That's right. Ye Wei said seriously: "For the sake of the peace of all of us, please help me keep my identity a secret, and I can keep it as long as I can." ”

He had said before why he used a pseudonym, and the two understood, Konstantin nodded and said, "We only know that you are Gu You." Mihaela thought for a moment and said, "Our daughter...... I don't think the secret can be known to her. Konstantin agreed: "Don't tell her first, she can't keep it a secret." ”

"It's up to you. Ye Wei had no opinion, "Then just call me Yunic from now on, I'm glad to stay at your house." ”

The couple smiled as if they had found their lost son.

In the afternoon of the same day, Ye Wei arrived at his new residence by the lakeside, a lush front garden, a double-storey house with a gray roof and white walls, a garage, and an independent utility room that was larger than he thought, which should be 25 square meters.

His arrival was like a dove's nest, as their son had already gone to college early, and their daughter and friends had gone on a trip to Niagara Falls and would not return until the following week.

......

After a weekend, all the formalities were completed and the utility room was much changed, no longer a place full of miscellaneous items and artworks, but a simple and elegant living room.

There is a newly purchased single wooden bed inside, wardrobes, bookshelves, etc. are placed against the wall one by one, the desk is placed by the window, and there is a pot of emerald green cacti on the edge of the window

Mr. Flender went back to Los Angeles, and he began to live here, and if there were no accidents, he would stay here until the end of the day.

Ye Wei really likes the environment of Cliffside, there are many trees everywhere, not to mention many parks around, a 10-minute walk to the edge of the cliff lake, you can enjoy the beauty of Lake Ontario while walking, and you can reach the shore farther away, which is open and pleasant.

On the afternoon of Monday on the 23rd, Ye Wei once again walked alone in the green forest by the lake, there were not many tourists, and it was quiet until it was broken by a call from his work mobile phone.

Seeing that it was Peter Heller calling, he immediately answered, "Hello." ”

"Weige, we just got a new piece of news that Drooney's side has officially rejected our invitation. ”

“ok。 Ye Wei responded calmly, inviting Robert De Niro to play the role of grandpa was just an attempt at luck, without much hope and without much effort, so there was no mood swing, "Is there an echo from Dustin Hoffman?"

"I also refused. "But Alan Akin is interested." ”

"good!" Ye Wei suddenly shouted.

The 70-year-old Alan Arkin is a gold medal veteran actor, and he also tried to be a hit when he was young, winning two Oscar nominations for Best Actor (1967, 1969), but that was decades ago in old Hollywood, and he later developed in the direction of director and producer, which was not successful, and the last time he directed was nearly 30 years ago (1977). In terms of acting, he has many eye-catching supporting roles.

Alan Akin's comedy is a cold-faced comedian, which has a good release in 1971 and 1979, and if he plays his grandfather, he will be a seemingly strict old and unorthodox person, and it must be very interesting.

Ye Wei didn't notice Ah Jin before, because when she invited Julia Roberts to do her homework, she saw Ah Jin's superb performance in the candidate.

"Then we will invite him with all our might, quickly get his agent, and enter the stage of direct interview. Call me if there's anything new, and I'm settled down now. ”

"Okay. "Hele should do it, and he knows how to do it.

After ending the call, Ye Wei continued to wander for a while, walking farther and farther, in order to avoid the embarrassing situation of getting lost, he turned back in time, and it was more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

Walking through a large woods, passing through the houses on both sides of the road, he returned to the new residence that he was about to get acquainted with, he was a little hungry, and wanted to find something to eat, so he took the new key and opened the door of the main house and went in, but he heard the sound of a TV in the living room inside the corridor at the door, and couldn't help but wonder, didn't Konstantin and they didn't go home until seven o'clock?

Ye Wei walked to the living room, and as soon as he turned the corner, he saw someone there.

A girl in a white shirt and black trousers bodybuilding suit, fifteen or sixteen years old, with long brown hair tied in a ponytail, lying reflexively on top of a pink fitness ball, her feet propped on that side, her hands propped on this side, showing the sexy curves of her body, what did the big brown eyes look up to, and the beautiful face that turned up upside down was surprised!

"Uh......" Ye Wei looked at her with a twist of his neck, "Hello." ”

"Ahh

"You're Nina, Nikolina Dobrev, right. ”

The strange man's words made the girl's screaming stop awkwardly, she stood up in shock and vigilance, took a few steps back, her posture was very vigorous and sensitive, a pair of barefoot feet that had been a little deformed because of gymnastics and ballet practice, as if she was about to run away at any time, her hand was poking something to the side of the sofa, and she picked up a log-colored gymnastic stick and faced him!

"Who are you?" she looked at him a few times to make sure she didn't know, "how do you know my name?"

"Ugh. Ye Wei lifted his glasses and snorted again, like a nerd who didn't know how to talk to girls.

Didn't they even say that there was a foreign student at home? And didn't they say that she would only come back the day after tomorrow? Ye Wei thought about it or didn't tell her more, this matter was up to Constantine and they decided, so he said to her: "I'm Gu You, it's nice to meet you, I'm a student from China, my English is not good, I live here." ”

"You live here?" the girl's eyes widened in surprise.

"I'm hungry and I need food. Ye Wei raised his hands, indicating that he had no malicious intent, I just wanted to eat.

He walked out of the living room step by step to the corridor, the girl held a gymnastics stick and walked in the opposite direction to him step by step, Ye Wei ignored her, turned around and drove to the dining room at the back of the house, opened the refrigerator to take a look, took a long bread and ate it.

The girl stood ghostly at the door of the dining room, probably seeing that he was too familiar, and her two delicate eyebrows were furrowed, and she looked at him with a strange look.

"I'm going back. Ye Wei raised his right hand holding the bread and the left hand holding the key again, and walked around the girl who was attacking at any time step by step, and suddenly ran away.

Seeing him run away, the girl put down the gymnastics stick in a daze, what's going on?