The State of the Group

Hello all! Some of you have been wondering who exactly will be traveling in the group to China in July 2009. As it stands right now, we have 19. It really looks like a solid group too! It's a nice mix of grade levels and personalities that should make this an incredibly dynamic group. As it stands right now, besides myself, Phil Prill, and Ms. Smith, this is the group:

1. Matthew Brown
2. Edith Carroll (parent)
3. Jackie Carroll
4. Kaylie Carroll
5. Cody Chesneau
6. Brett Childress
7. Alexa Corbit
8. Sean Denny
9. Ben Doty
10. Jake Hansard
11. Erika Levy
12. Catherine Lindke
13. Alec Livaditis
14. Tyler McCrary
15. Andrea Pettus
16. Kathleen Prengaman
17. Alex Williams
18. Robert Williams (parent)
19. Anthony Yi

Some of you may have already received a letter in the mail reminding you that this trip requires a visa. Let's wait another week or two to see if our group grows by a few more people, but let's start applying for the visas late this month or early next month. Our tour director has suggested that we all apply as a group at the same time. I'll be sending you some instructions regarding how we will do this in the next couple of weeks. It will be a rather smooth and organized process. Also, I would like to perhaps get us together as a group for dinner (Chinese right?) so that the participants can begin to get to know each other. I'll send more information out on this soon as well. I'm very excited, once again, about the group that we have so far, and hopefully will get a couple of more good additions in the coming days. Thanks everybody!