Another exciting day, today we explored Facebook and learned all about what it’s like to be an employee there and how to become one. We were also treated to lunch in the courtyard of their incredible campus. We then went to the Tesla showroom to learn about the technology behind a Tesla car! The...
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Exploring Art: Art on the Pond
A beautiful day for an adventure outside of the classroom! Getting an early start to our day, we traveled to Pakim Pond, in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest (formerly Lebanon State Forest) for a day of hiking, exploring and as usual — creating. It was refreshing to travel less than 30 miles from...
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La Mezquita de Córdoba
Today we said goodbye to the community of FES. It was very sad and sweet at the same time, and all of us feel that we would not want to trade the experience for the world. Then we headed on the bus towards Córdoba, which took two hours. Once we arrived, we went to...
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Nicaragua: Amigos, trabajo, comunidad
Nicaragua: Finishing Our Project in Solidarity
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Beep Beep! Autostadt, Here We Come!
Today, we spent time at the Autostadt, translated as “Car City.” It is home to the Volkswagen Factory and numerous pavilions devoted to the history, development, and manufacturing of Volkswagen cars. There were buildings devoted to Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Seat, Skoda, and the famous Volkswagen Beetle. After spending time in the complex, we...
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A Pile of Carpets, or a Pile of Fun
Today, we went back to the Restore. Most of us moved carpets and stacked large boxes in the alternate warehouse for most of the day. Although, a few of us remained in the store’s main warehouse to help organize and restock the inventory. We jammed out to some sweet tunes on a boombox, and...
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Day Three, Spanish Culture: ¡Fue un éxito!
Day 3 of MFS Spanish Culture was a success! As a continuation of yesterday’s activities, we accompanied the bilingual kindergarten and first grade classes of Southwark School to Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum. The 10 of us divided into groups to guide the kids through the museum. The many exhibits provided them with opportunities...
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Sewing Day Three!
Everyone embarked on different projects today. After we made some jumpers, dresses, and other baby outfits, our projects were hung on display in front of the window to display our hard work. After picking up food from Main Street, we headed back and settled into an afternoon of hard work....
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Exploring Asian Art
Yesterday, we visited the Philadelphia Art Museum. We looked at the Asian Art, such as old Alchemist bottles. We experienced what it was like to live in Japan about 100 years ago in the Tea House. Afterwards, we went to a Korean BBQ. We ate delicious food that was very cultural to the region of Korea....
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MFSpanish: Visiting a Bilingual School
Today we helped in a bilingual class of kindergarteners and first graders. They were so cute. It was a lot of fun to talk to them in Spanish. We headed off to Philadelphia to visit Southwark, an elementary school introducing a bilingual program. We helped out with kindergarten and first graders who were doing...
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Reflecting on our trip to Pig Iron
This morning, we reflected on our time spent yesterday with members of Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Our teachers, Dito, Alex and Olivia, worked with us on creating original pieces of theatre. We started the day with games and activities that made us aware of our own physical selves and our connections to...
Continue readingMFS Alumni paying it forward!
Today our first stop was at Coursera. We met Mrs. Barna’s son, Peter (MFS Alumni ’11) in front of their headquarters. We learned all about Coursera’s mission and how they plan to accomplish it. We experienced first hand a true startup tech company and its culture. Our next stop was to Symantec....
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Nicaragua: Sharing music makes bonds
Today, after breakfast we walked again to Casa del Niño. We mixed rocks, sand, cement, and water to pour into the holes we made yesterday. Some of us removed nails from wood and others carried rocks to be put in the ground. The beams were still being painted with a few more to go....
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Nicaragua: Sharing soccer, strength, skills
This morning we went to the Casa Del Niños art school. We did many different service projects, such as painting beams, shoveling old footings so that new foundation can be put down, cutting rebar, and then making them into squares for rebar foundations. Then we went to a women’s craft collective. There we learned the...
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