Western Europe Discovery 2 Update #2 Dear Friends and Family, What a fun and busy time we are having together! On Friday we were in London and visited the Shakespeare Theater, ate delicious food at the Borough Market, and volunteered at a food packing facility. Then we went back to the hotel to get ready [...]
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Western Europe Discovery 2 Update #1 Dear Friends and Family, Wednesday morning started off with the kids who had been in Italy welcoming our new friends to the group with beautiful signs they made. We had time to get to know each other before heading to Borough Market. Everyone enjoyed different types of food from [...]
Western Europe 1 Update #2 Friday by Alyssa Miller and Elana Sharff Friday morning we took the Tube and visited Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse built in 1599. Here we learned about the all male casts used during Shakespeare’s times, the “penny stinkers” or peasants who stood in the yard of the theatre, and [...]
Western Europe 1 Update #1 Day 1 by Morgan Fisher and Sophie Valuntas We arrived to London! We departed the day before at 8:30pm and after an overnight flight we landed around 7:30am in London Heathrow airport. We immediately left the airport and headed to Windsor Castle where explored the grounds and had lunch. After [...]
What an incredible couple of days! We can’t believe that it was only on Thursday we last wrote. On Friday morning we woke and began our day at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. We had an amazing guide who taught us not only the history of this influential stage, but what it must have been like to [...]
Hello from London! Our Italy participants have now joined forces with 8 new participants. Yesterday we picked up the new crew from the airport and went straight to Windsor Castle where the Queen sometimes spends her weekends. We took photos with the guards and tried extremely hard to get them to laugh but they were [...]
Greetings from England! We arrived at Heathrow early on Wednesday morning and met our guide Gregor! We quickly loaded the bus and headed to our first stop, Windsor Castle! After a pizzur snack, we toured the grounds and even saw Queen Mary’s doll house! We took some great pictures and had more free time to [...]
Since our last update, it has been very exciting here in London! Friday, we woke up to the results of the UK EU referendum. The Brits voted in favor of leaving the European Union. We can say we were in England while history was made! We spent Friday morning touring Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, which was [...]
Starting off meeting the rest of the group in London, it was so welcoming because everyone just introduced themselves and everyone was nice to everyone else. Then we boarded our bus and headed to Windsor Castle. One of the things I have been looking forward to has been learning about other people’s cultures and what’s [...]