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A Trip to China

In about five hours I depart for China! Around 20 Pentucket Regional School District teachers and community members are traveling to Beijing, Xian and Shanghai for eight days. Aside from sightseeing, we will be visiting two schools. I hope to get a lot out of this trip. I purchased a new camera this morning and am also bringing my Flip video camera so hopefully I will be able to make an awesome slide show. We are supposed to bring a small gift to the two schools that we are going to. I am going to stop somewhere in Newburyport to get a poster and I also have a Pentucket Sachems hat to give.

So far the weather looks great. I took an extra luggage bag with me so that I will have space to bring home some musical instruments with me.

Mr. B

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