The Londonderry High School Band and Color Guard Are Off to China

At about 2:30 this afternoon the first of three busses full of Londonderry students is scheduled to leave the high school.

Destination: Beijing.

The Londonderry High School Band and Color Guard have been invited to play during a Pre-Olympic event called the Beijing Cultural Youth Festival.

Pollyann Winslow is the mother of one of those students and an organizer.

She tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that 253 students plus dozens of chaperones and parents will be on those busses headed for the adventure of a lifetime.