The cost is $20 and this includes the coach bus and the guided siteseeing tour. Lunch is on your own in China Town. The bus will leave at 10 a.m. from Ultra Foods at 1200 N. Kennedy Drive, Kankakee. Reservation deadline is Wednesday, Sept. 11.
For more information, or to reserve your seat, call KCCSI at 815-933-7883 ext. 222.
There'll be no homecoming football game. And no coming home for laundry.
College life is definitely going to change this semester for Reddick's Brittany Ashburn. The 21-year-old international business major is leaving Aug. 27 to study at Shanghai University in China.
"Yes, I'm excited and anxious," said Ashburn, a senior at North Central College in Naperville. "And, no, I can't speak Chinese, yet. I'll be taking classes in Mandarin four hours a day when I get there."
Obviously, Brittany, the daughter of James and Dawn Ashburn, has been thinking about this 7,000-mile adventure for quite awhile.
"We have to study abroad in this major and there's a class that prepares international students. I also have two mentors I've been talking to for awhile," she explained. "There is a lot to learn before you go."
Some of the "Don'ts" on her list:
• Don't talk about the American government or politics at all.
The number of neighbors in Brittany Ashburn's world is about to rise by the millions.
Brittany, a Reddick resident, Herscher High School graduate and student at North Central College in Naperville, is about to embark on a journey to China to study at Shanghai University as part of her pursuit of a degree in international business.
Brittany will be moving into a dorm with an English-speaking Chinese student, who requested to live with an international student. Campus enrollment tops 41,000, with 3,000 from outside the country. The university is a modern consolidation of several colleges. It's set in China's largest city: population 23 million.
"Yes, that's a long way from Reddick [population: 163], but we have at least three field trips, so we will get out in rural areas. I want to see the farms there," she said.
Brittany will take five classes — all with instructors who speak English.
