Today 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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Feeling Accomplished
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...
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Let’s Sew for Babies, Day 6: Final Stitches
This morning when we arrived at the Greenleaf some of us put the final stitches on our projects and some made simple projects to add to the collection. Alden, Josh, and Alex had finished all their projects and cooked us breakfast. They made eggs, bacon, and hot chocolate. Once we wrapped up all of our projects...
Continue readingFinal Day: Hassan II Mosque Interior
Our final day in Morocco is at an end; we began the day by checking out of our hotel in Marrakech and busing to Casablanca. After our 3 hour trek northwest, we arrived at the largest mall in Morocco, aptly named Morocco Mall. Everyone was content with a change in food for lunch, as...
Continue readingMarch 28, 2017 — Seeds of Hope
What do people experiencing homelessness need? Socks, travel size personal care items, quality sweatshirts, jeans, and sneakers....
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Asian Culture: Service Day in Philly’s Chinatown
After yesterday’s trip to New York’s famous Chinatown, the Asian Cultures Intensive Learning group journeyed just across the river to Philadelphia’s own Chinatown to continue our study of East Asian culture. Since Philadelphia is so much of a closer trip than New York, we had time to begin our day with an in-class discussion...
Continue readingTeam Museum Wraps It Up
We have finished a wonderful week of intellectual explorations. Thank you to everyone!...
Continue readingCousin’s Grocery Store and Cooking
Cousin’s Grocery Store Today we created a grocery shopping list for our fiesta tomorrow. We divided the list into different groups and had a competition to see who would find all of their items first. Michél and Assata won. We headed back to school and had lunch and began prepping the food. Julianna, Kendall,...
Continue readingThe Final Day of Blacksmithing
Today, Jack, Christian, and Jakob worked diligently on household utilities such as a fireplace poker and a spatula. Bruce brought the cows over to the forge area to keep us company and to graze new lands. Some brave blacksmiths even went over to confront the animals and became friends. Liz, Robbie, Roman, and Tanay...
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Let’s Sew for Babies, Day 5: The Final Push!
On our last full day, we all worked hard and tried to finish our big projects before Friday. Some people started smaller projects. We have plenty of burp cloths, bibs, and toys, so we have been focusing on making clothes, such as dresses, pants, and onesies. The people who have never sewed before have...
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Final Touches to our Prototype Designs
The day was kicked off with a breakfast of waffles, cookies, and juice courtesy of Hannah. Following that, we began a lab in which we drew and created different objects that spoke for themselves without needing further explanation: a watch using only one Post-It, a shopping app using only 3 Post-Its, and a campsite using...
Continue readingA Full Day in Cuba: Working Hard, Playing Hard
Tuesday, March 28 We started the day with breakfast as usual, which consisted of scrambled eggs, ham, guava juice, freshly brewed Cuban coffee, bread, butter, and peanut butter. They also provided a native fruit spread that included juicy mango, succulent pineapple, and tangy guava. As usual, they set out pots of hot milk and...
Continue readingMarrakech Day 2: Hump Day
On our way to a camel riding excursion, we passed gardens made in the 12th century. Once we arrived, we were given traditional Berber garbs and turbans. We rode our camels through a palm tree farm, some of us even gave our camels names! Next we walked through the Jewish quarter of Marrakech and...
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Chinatown in New York — Asian Culture Day Four!
Today, the Asian Cultures Intensive Learning trip took our most distant trip, leaving New Jersey and nearby Philadelphia in order to explore the East Asian cultures thriving in Chinatown New York City. First, we stopped at an Art Gallery with an exhibit on Modern Japanese art. One part of the exhibit focused on the...
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Adventuring on our Last Day in the Dominican Republic
Today started off with another wonderful buffet getting us ready to go zip lining and explore caves. Once we got to the zip lining complex, we got strapped in our harnesses and were ready to go. We learned how to safely ride them and then we jumped right into it. We were all about...
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