Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
We started the day off by packing everything up in our hotel and getting some pancakes and eggs for breakfast. After breakfast we made our way to a farmers market and explored what they had to offer. After a quick visit to the farmers market we took an hour-long bus ride to the Belize...
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Today we visited the Xunantunich Maya ruins and learned about the history of the location and the Maya people. Xunantunich is one of the largest Maya sites in the Belize River Valley. The center, which is about a square mile, is composed of several major plazas surrounded by numerous temples and palaces. One of...
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We started our first day very early, arriving at school at 4:30 a.m. We ventured by bus to JFK, where we had ample time to explore and get some bagel sandwiches! After a three-hour flight and some napping, we arrived in Santiago and immediately felt the hot, humid weather as we stepped off the...
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Our first day of Arts and Entertainment took us to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After an overview of the trips ahead for next week, we left school at 10:15 am and arrived at the museum shortly after. We checked in and quickly split into groups to explore all the different exhibits! The museum...
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To begin the day, we went over our theme of spiritual and ethical growth and looked into the rules that we live our life by; we journaled about that for a short time. That transitioned nicely into our 20-minute mindfulness meditation in which we were challenged to follow our breath as we embraced ambient...
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Today was our second day of mindfulness. The theme today was personal growth. We started the day by writing in our journals writing about what our goals were for the next hour, day, week, year, and decades. Then we did a guided “become your best self” meditation so we could focus and get ready...
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This morning the Upper School launched “June Week,” the much-anticipated adaptation of Moorestown Friends’ beloved Intensive Learning program, which was cancelled two years in a row due to the lengthy COVID-19 pandemic. Although the program will be a short version of IL, it promises to be no less sweet as MFS teachers share their...
Continue readingMarch 31, 2017 On our last day in Cuba, we visited a beautiful farm in the small town of Alcalá, about an hour and a half away from Holguín. Getting to this farm was probably the most challenging part of the day as our tour bus could not drive through a patch of fertilizer...
Continue readingThursday, March 30 For the first time in almost a week, we were forced to awaken close to six in the morning. However, this was a nice change from our typical schedule of service and local touring. Today we went to Santiago de Cuba, a lovely, historic city in southern Cuba, that holds many...
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Today we woke up early to practice an energizing vinyasa flow. As part of the last practice we were encouraged for one song to let go of everything and to be free as we danced around the room. Afterwards we headed to breakfast to enjoy our last meal together, homemade yogurt and grains and...
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Today we started with an intense vinyasa class that had a lot of ab work in it. After breakfast, we made mala necklaces/bracelets with the full 108 beads (one = wholeness, zero = emptiness, eight = infinity, plus a lot of other reasons for the number 108) to use as a meditation tool. Then we...
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Wednesday, March 29 Today we woke up at 8:30 to eat breakfast and get started on the exciting day we had planned. After breakfast, we split into two groups. Most of our group went outside to the street in front of the church to unload a bus carrying 312 cases of Bibles for the...
Continue readingToday we started off with a vinyasa practice with awesome music to wake everyone up. After breakfast, we worked on making some yoga-inspired jewelry. Then, we had a lecture on the levels of listening (ignoring, pretending, selective, attentive, and empathic), which we followed by empathically listening to each other in small groups. To connect...
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Unsure of how our partners at the Pinelands Preservation Alliance would receive our proposals this morning, we made some final touches and prepared our presentations for our 9:30 am meeting at their office. At 8:30, everyone packed up their prototypes and rushed to the bus as rain drizzled down. Once on site, we enjoyed a light breakfast...
Continue readingWe concluded our exploration of Sacred Spaces with a an enjoyable visit to the Penn Museum. The museum has three floors of gallery space that feature materials from the ancient Mediterranean World, Egypt, the Near East, Mesopotamia, East Asia, and Mesoamerica. You can also find artifacts from the indigenous peoples of Africa and Native...
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