The number of neighbors in Brittany Ashburn's world is about to rise by the millions.
Brittany, a Reddick resident, Herscher High School graduate and student at North Central College in Naperville, is about to embark on a journey to China to study at Shanghai University as part of her pursuit of a degree in international business.
Brittany will be moving into a dorm with an English-speaking Chinese student, who requested to live with an international student. Campus enrollment tops 41,000, with 3,000 from outside the country. The university is a modern consolidation of several colleges. It's set in China's largest city: population 23 million.
"Yes, that's a long way from Reddick [population: 163], but we have at least three field trips, so we will get out in rural areas. I want to see the farms there," she said.
Brittany will take five classes — all with instructors who speak English.
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