Today we started off the day traveling to Narbonne, where we did a scavenger hunt in the market and walked around the city. We went to a historic Roman road that was built around 120 BC and was not discovered until 1997. After our short stop at Narbonne we made our way to the...
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Galápagos: Day on San Cristóbal Island
Our final day in the Galápagos was certainly one to remember. We started out the day the same as yesterday, with an early breakfast and getting on our speed boats for our two-hour trip to San Cristobal. San Cristobal is the youngest of the five large islands. When we got there we got to...
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More adventures in Costa Rica!
Today we started out our second day in Costa Rica. After breakfast, the first activity we participated in was horseback riding through the beautiful landscape of Guanacaste. Each member of our group got their very own horse. After three hours of trekking through the tropical woods, we reached the first waterfall and took some...
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Let’s Sew for Babies, Day Five: Wrapping Up
Today we sewed during the morning to put the final touches on our final projects. We scurried up to Starbucks to get a lil’ snack after the drill and to take a short break. After that we had another snack with spring-themed treats. We had some colorful cookies, some yummy chocolate eggs, and we even had...
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Glass Art: Learning to Solder
The last day of Glass Art Intensive Learning was spent finishing the projects we started at the beginning of the week. Today we learned how to solder, which is an art all in itself. Soldering is the metal that goes in between the pieces of glass to hold them together to be one piece....
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Final Day of Design Thinking: Presentations and Bonding
We started off our day of Intensive Learning by doing our presentations in preparation for our final “pitches” to various faculty and staff members. Our last set of feedback from these members of the MFS community both encouraged our ideas and suggested alternative and new ways to approach the topic. We learned that the...
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Multicultural Philadelphia: Jewish History Tour
Today we went to the historically Jewish area of Philadelphia. We took a tour through the area and learned about the most important people and places that made up the Jewish neighborhood, one being Commodore Levy, who was in the Navy and once said, “I am an American, a sailor, and a Jew.” There...
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It’s time to “SPLIT” from Croatia!
Hvar, our first destination of today, is the second longest island in the Adriatic sea, and has a current population of roughly eleven thousand people. It is a former Yugoslavian controlled territory, and consists of five main parts: the arsenal, the dukes palace, the fortress, and living areas for the commoners and the nobles....
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Sadly, today was our final day at the forge. The experience as a whole was great and we had fun making multiple tools with metal. I finished making a fire poker and many others finished hooks and tools. We had conversations about what we liked about this Intensive Learning. All in all it was...
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Cabinets of Curiosities: Curating People
Aidan C The mummy exhibit in the Penn Museum is unique in that it doesn’t clearly express this culture in a humane way. For a place that is built on humanity, the mummy exhibit portrays humans in a way that could be seen as disrespectful seeing as one of the mummies is displayed naked....
Continue readingGalápagos: A Day on Isabella Island
Today we woke up at 5:30 and ate a quick breakfast of ham, eggs, and fruit before getting on the bus to head into the city. Once we arrived, we sat on the pier and waited for our water taxi to the boat. The group hastily boarded the boat named “Undertaker” and set off...
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3.28.18: Meeting Our Host Families
Bonjour à tout, Today we started our first full day in Carcassonne with our host families. We enjoyed an authentic French breakfast that consisted of fresh brioche, Nutella, and café au lait. After our petit-déjeuner, our host families drove us to a local high school to meet our group. From there, we traveled to...
Continue readingCabinets of Curiosities: Becoming the Exhibit
Today, we spent the day hard at work in Ms. McFeely’s room because there was no museum trip planned. We started the day preparing presentations with pictures from yesterday’s scavenger hunt. After we presented, we were given the chance to do some reading and then discuss as a group. For lunch, we cooked Mac...
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Croatia and Bosnia makes it seven countries in six days!
Today we traveled to Dubrovnik, Croatia! Dubrovnik is a very beautiful town covered with red-roofed stone buildings and surrounded by gorgeous teal water. Dubrovnik is also where the HBO hit TV show Game Of Thrones does a lot of its filming, especially of Kings Landing. The first spot we saw was Fort Lovrijenac which doubles as Blackwater...
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Multicultural Philly: Italian Market Tour
Today we were able to explore various parts of Philadelphia. We started the day off by walking through the mosaic-covered walls of Philadelphia. Artist Isaiah Zagar created the walls. We also ran into his wife and their dog. Some of his artwork included random letters, quotes, and portraits of people. We proceeded to walk...
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