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Bayshore: Lots of work and some play

March 24, 2014October 13, 2015Bayshore Discovery

Day Two Day two of our Bayshore trip and the boat still hasn’t arrived (hopefully tomorrow!). But that doesn’t mean our group of 14 eager (and slightly frozen) students couldn’t find work to be done. Not only does the boat need to be taken care of, but also the dock she resides in, and the...

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Costa Rica: Painting the playground

March 22, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Day Three Annie Today was amazing! We started out our day by visiting a small school after breakfast. We helped paint a playground and also some classrooms. We got to play with some of the local children. We all had an excellent meal of rice, salad, chips and pineapple juice together. When we finished...

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Costa Rica: Planting trees with local children

March 22, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Day Two After breakfast at 7:30, we headed to the school to work with the children. When we got there, we were each assigned a child and we planted trees with them.  We then helped the students to paint signs with the name of the tree and their name to place in front of...

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New Mexico: Getting to know Santa Fe

March 22, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Day One Arrival 8 pm: view of the farms and desert on the way west, took a really cute bus for an hour heading to Santa Fee from the airport. Everybody went to bed really soon after the long plane and bus rides. After everybody had breakfast by 8 am before we walked into...

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Exploring Art: Enlivening the ruins

March 21, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Day One Today in our Exploring Art intensive learning trip we traveled to Fairmount Park in order to address the remains of a former home as a location for site-specific art. The structure was a mere ruin with visible entrances, however there were no doors or windows. Many street artists have taken advantage of...

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Costa Rica: Fun Day Planting with the Kids!

March 21, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

We had a great day planting trees with the students in the local elementary school....

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China: 9 days to go!

March 12, 2014October 13, 2015China

  Today we had our last meeting! Everyone is ready to go and excited to explore a new culture! 我们的 最后 一次 小组会! 我们 准备 好了!中国,我们来了!...

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