Wouldn’t be amazing if you could travel to China and see the Great Wall? Well, for Matthew Foster, he accomplished this common bucket list item during his high school career. Matthew grew up in Spartanburg, S.C. and attended Spartanburg High School.
Throughout his high school years, he became involved in his high school orchestra as a violinist. He played the violin for eight years. During the summer after his senior year, Foster got the chance to travel to China with his high school orchestra and share their musical abilities. He said they performed at many different schools and colleges in China.
“We went to different cities like Beijing and Shanghai to perform and it was so cool because it was a whole new experience,” said Foster.
Foster said that China was an amazing experience with an exotic culture. “It’s a different world,” he said. He said that the people and the culture was just something so different to experience. He claimed that the food was not that great but at least he got to try it.
Foster said that the most interesting part of his trip was playing on the actual Great Wall of China. “ It was really cool playing on the Great Wall but the weather was really bad,” said Foster.
It has been three years since he played on the Great Wall and Foster is now concentrating on school and his career. Foster, now 22, is a communications major at the College of Charleston and hopes to move up north to pursue a career in public relations. He said he wanted to move up to New York City, which is a great fit because he loves Broadway musicals.
