Small World: Chinese Students Enjoy Backyard BBQ at Tamaroa Farm

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Just ask Ron and Dianna Kuhnert of Kuhnert Farms in Tamaroa. The couple Sunday hosted a cookout for about 30 students visiting Southern Illinois for three weeks from mainland China and Taiwan. The Leadership Workshop is a goodwill program at SIU.

About 30 students enjoyed yard games and an old fashioned hamburger and hot dog cookout in the backyard at the Kuhnert home. According to program director Max Yen, "We wanted to show students how we do things here." SIU hopes to work with China to set up three SIU centers in China, giving Chinese students a chance to go to school here and allow United States students traveling abroad to do the same in China.

Students, many who live in high rise apartments, were so appreciative of the chance to spend a day "down on the farm." They took pictures and played horse shoes and yard darts on the beautiful grounds surrounding the home.

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