Student Travels

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Our last night in Madrid

Exchange Program to Madrid, Spain

I had the amazing privilege to be part of Iberdrola, an exchange program to Madrid, Spain. The exchange program was designed for American and Scottish teens to fly out to Madrid to spend two weeks with a Spanish teen they were paired up with. They noted that I was extremely well rounded,...

Category: Volunteering
Sara and I, our last night together in Spain

Madrid, Spain

Category: Volunteering

Irreplaceable Feelings

  A crisp, fresh, clean, neat, white, frosty, exhilarating, and exciting snowy day, describes the first morning when a student wakes up at winter camp.  In between Redlands and Big Bear lie Forest Falls: home to Forest Home, the best winter camp ever. The first trip I took to...

Category: Vacation

Irreplaceable Feelings

A crisp, fresh, clean, neat, white, frosty, exhilarating, and exciting snowy day, describes the first morning when a student wake up at winter camp.  In between Redlands and Big Bear lie Forest Falls: home to Forest Home, the best winter camp ever. The first trip I took to Forest Home...

Category: Vacation

The Painters

             My brother and I explored the East Coast, darting from train to train to visit every art museum we could. We saw paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, Bierstadt, and Moran. But we did not notice any dirt or bugs buried in the paint; unfortunately,...

Category: Soul Search
O'Shaughnessy Dam

The Beauty of Exploring

I did not realize that when I signed up for my AP Environmental class it was going to change my families’ whole view of the world I live in. Not just because we learn how the technologies that we are creating are causing pollution, or that the CFC's of the "old...

Category: Exploring

Who knew a meadow and a few girls could change who you are?

Category: Volunteering

The Nerve wracking trip to Australia

  If someone told me a year ago that I would be dangling over the edge of a cliff halfway around the world, I would have told them that they had the wrong girl. Heights tended to turn me into a jittery, nervous mess. However a year ago I was presented with an opportunity by People to...

Category: Volunteering

Assateagues Hidden Wonders

As we were driving over the river, my excitement grew. I could almost taste the sweet air of the rural country side. We had just left the small city of Chincoteague which is the home town of the famous story by Marguerite Henry, Misty of Chincoteague. I had always been in love with...

Category: Vacation
Elephant in the Kruger National Park

Trip of A Life Time

  “Howzit! Welcome to Sud Africa!” That was the first thing I heard stepping off the 18 hour  flight from Washington D.C. It was all so new and exciting, different smells, a new language, a completely new atmosphere, pretty much a new everything. This was only my...

Category: Heritage