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GENERAL CHINA TOUR MAILING
(#2)
TO: All
China Tour Participants
FROM: Jim Warrick and Peter Rosheger
DATE: March 1, 2000
General
Mailing #2
Here is the
latest...
1. Our first
of three "China Information Meetings" is now planned for
MONDAY NIGHT (March 20) in room M387. We will have one evening
meeting a month for 3 months to see videos, learn some basic
Chinese, and hear from people who have lived or worked in China. We
hope everyone going on the trip will attend. The first meeting will
feature a presentation by the orchestra director at Evanston High
School and several of their orchestra students. They toured China
last summer and have much to tell us. They will be followed by
a"pot luck" dinner and a travel movie about China. Our
tour operator will also be there to answer questions. The meeting
starts at 6:30 p.m. and we hope to finish by 8:15 p.m. ENCLOSED IS A
FORM TO HELP ORGANIZE THE "POT LUCK" DINNER. RESPOND TO IT
PROMPTLY.
2. The other
two tour meetings are MONDAY, APRIL 24, and TUESDAY, MAY 23. The May
23rd meeting will be devoted to LEARNING CHINESE!
3. We have
discovered a GREAT, 316-page, paperback book that we want EVERYONE
GOING ON THE TOUR TO READ. We have purchased 35 copies and will be
sending a list of groups of people that will share a book. After you
read your book, give it to someone else in your group to read. The
book is called "Culture Shock! A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
in China." If we did not feel this was important we would not
have gone to the trouble of obtaining these books. We ask parents to
make sure this REQUIRED READING is done as soon as possible. This is
necessary if everyone in each reading group is to have enough time
to read this outstanding book.
4. If you
haven't seen our remodeled China Tour Web Page... take a look. Tony
Tang has put the two areas requiring a password in one section, and
reduced the amount of information on the home page. There will soon
be a special section added for our ONLINE AUCTION.
5. The Shure
Microphone Company has donated $4,000 in cash and $2,000 in
equipment to our tour. They will also be providing one or two very
special tour shirts for everyone going on the tour embroidered with
their logo and other wording. We also have received a sizable
donations from the Rotary Club of Winnetka. (More details to
follow.)
6. In the
FUND RAISING link on our tour webpage, we have listed all the prizes
received to date for the ONLINE AUCTION and the WEIGH TO GO CONTEST.
Garrett Ash has already sold 40 CDs, bringing his tour cost down by
$400, and lowering the cost of EVERY STUDENT by several dollars.
EVERYONE needs to help to make the trip costs lower. Do not depend
on others to do your part. A current prize list (copied off the tour
webpage) is enclosed.
7. We have
special envelopes for turning in your money from CD sales or the
WEIGH TO GO contest. Those envelopes should be turned in to Mr.
Rosheger and they are available on his office door.
8. We have
placed special CHINA TOUR CD displays in stores that will sell them
for us. Please contact Kathy Bernstein by e-mail at Kadventure@aol.com
or via phone: 256-8035 with any contacts you have regarding possible
retail display/distribution of our China Tour CDs. We have display
boxes and CD's available immediately to place in stores, and we are
anxious for the exposure and increased sales. We have 2,000 CDs to
sell and EVERY SALE LOWERS YOUR TRIP COST!!!.
9. We are
now working hard with our Tour Operator to define a very specific
itinerary, including specific flight times, etc. We are not ready to
announce these specifics until they are solid. Keep an eye on the
ITINERARY link on our tour webpage.
10. The Jazz
Festival video archive files are online now. Go to http://ntjazz.com
and follow the link. Such files will be available after the Spring
Orchestra Concert, since it too will be broadcast over the Internet.
11. We now
have 102 people going on this tour. We are at capacity.
TOUR
CHECKLIST TO DATE:
___ Have you
applied for a passport (if you do not already have one)? This is
very important, as we CAN NOT apply for our group VISA without your
passport information.
___ Have you
sent Mr. Rosheger a photocopy of your passport’s photo page?
___ Have you
paid your $70 for your China Visa? (If not, it has been due for a
month.)
___ If you
haven’t charged it already, have you paid your $350 trip payment
due on March 1? (or if you are a Guest Traveler, are you getting
ready to make your March 15 trip payment?)
___ Have you
made plans to get your immunizations? See the web page for more
information.
___ Have
parents of Jazz and Chamber Orchestra students obtained their
tickets to see the Chick Corea/Gary Burton Concert on April 29? (We
will soon be sold out.)
___ Has
everyone in the family seriously considered helping us locate prizes
for the ONLINE AUCTION and the WEIGH TO GO CONTEST? (Contact Mr.
Warrick if you have prizes to offer.)
The General
Mailing contained…
Reading
Group List for the CULTURE SHOCK book
The POT LUCK organization information
A "Weigh to Go Contest" entry form
Current prize list (off of webpage)
Tips for staying healthy on the road (newspaper article)
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