Our bags are packed, we're ready to go.

Inside my suitcase is a note from Mr. Batten, and a token of our appreciation for the hospitality being extended to us by GMS.

We are truly appreciative of the way GMS arranged for our travel to Suzhou, Nanjing, and Hangzhou while we wait for entry to Guilin. (Due to the Swine Flu pandemic the city of Guilin requires that foreign visitors must stay 6 days outside of the city before they are allowed to enter.)

We will see our friends in Guilin on June 22nd, and look forward to our time with you.

Parents, teachers and friends-follow our journey.

The adventure starts tomorrow.

GMS and CHS are SISTER SCHOOLS

Principal Kelly Batten reviews and signs an agreement between Guilin Middle School and Carrboro High School to "strengthen friendly relations, promote mutual learning in language and culture, and enhance educational cooperation" by declaring our schools "sister schools."

Tomorrow we leave for China!

Students and teachers of the International Studies Academy of Carrboro High School are eager to visit their new friends in Guilin, China.

front row:

Theodore Brown, Jasmine Farmer, Tosin Olufolabi, LuLu Zhong,

Josie Hollingsworth, Ilana Schmidt, Grace McPhail, Hadley Reid,

Sondra Anton

back row:

Tom Brown, Judith Kalleberg, Adam Glasser, Caroline Stevens,

Neel Patel, Reade Paterno, Andriy Rusyn, Jesse Holloway

Welcome parents, friends, and teachers. We hope you will follow our adventures from from June 16th. through July 1st. Before we get started, however, we want to introduce ourselves to our new friends in Guilin.

Welcome to the AIS Guilin Trip Blog

Welcome to the Academy of International Studies blog for our trip to Guilin, China. Fourteen students from Carrboro High School will travel from North Carolina to Guilin to visit students at Kui Guang High School. We June 16th to July 1st.
Before we get started, however, we would like to introduce ourselves to our new friends in Guilin.