Today, we spent our second day at the South Jersey Food Bank. Everyone definitely earned their service hours today. Here’s how: The make-up crew is proud of all the kits they put together for Mother’s Day....
Continue readingMulticultural Philly: Around Chinatown
We started out the day by going to the Peking Duck House. The food there was really good and everyone had a good time. For appetizers we enjoyed wonton soup and spring rolls; for the main course we had duck, General Tso’s chicken, vegetable fried-rice, white rice, ginger lo mein, and string beans; for...
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Exploring Art: Synergies
Today everyone worked on completing a project for tomorrow’s trip to the Pine Barrens. These projects consisted of creating either an abstract or realism sculpture. Some people worked together, others chose to work alone. The students were offered various options on the type of sculpture they could create, or there was the option to...
Continue readingLacrosse: The road often traveled
Last Day We started the day with very cold weather (62 degrees) – what a chill in the air! Off to practice at 9:00 AM. Practice went very well. We continue to get better with each workout. Spending two and half hours in this chilly weather does take a toll but we all worked...
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First day in the village
By Sarah Henig, Vanessa, and Kendall On the first full day of service we ate breakfast with our families. Then, we went out to work on the playground at the local school. After a morning of hard work, we took a siesta and had a delicious lunch provided by our family. With the extra...
Continue readingCosta Rica: Lots of fun pictures
Here are some pictures. More pics and video to come when we can find a stronger Internet signal....
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Heading Home Soon
By Laila, Nneka, and Crystal We woke up at the crack of dawn, packed up all of our things and ate breakfast with our host families. Our host mom made us sandwiches for the road. We bought some homemade crafts and T-shirts from one of the mothers. We packed up the bus and headed...
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Building, painting, dancing …
By Wesley Our last full day in the village, however nostalgic, consisted of a morning of hard work and service followed by an afternoon and evening of engaging activities. Upon arriving at La Escuela de Coope San Juan in the morning, we finally completed the soccer field as a group. Once the soccer goals...
Continue readingLeaving CoopeSanJuan
Cutest new friends ever!!!!! They even sang a song for us. ...
Continue readingBlacksmithing: Cold & Windy – Some outside – some inside
Day Four Today we got to the Harriton House and split between working indoors on wood turning and outdoors doing more with blacksmithing. We got the fires up and running as quickly as possible. As long as you were near the fire it wasn’t too cold. The group inside made bowls and fork handles....
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Appalachian Trail: Wednesday, 10+ Miles (thanks Dana)
The day started out with the joy of hiking two miles to put our stuff back in the U-Haul. Once we were finished, we cleaned the cabin and prepared for the day’s hike. After three miles we ate lunch in a five star cabin. We hiked farther and had to cross over state lines....
Continue readingOur Final Day in Paris: Au Revoir!
On our sixth and final day, we started off by going to a science museum. Our favorite exhibits were the planetarium and the optical illusions. After that, we traveled by Metro to the Montmartre. After walking up a copious amount of steps, we made it to the top. We were given time to explore...
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Pan, Paella, Tapas, Flan, OHH MY!
Today we had breakfast at the hotel in Córdoba and then we started the hour and a half long trip to Málaga. When we got to Málaga, we immediately went to a school called Ave Maria. Here, we got to see how a school in Spain works. We briefly stopped at a kindergarten class...
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Appalachian Trail: Monday’s thorns
I ripped my pants-Luke The people in Michael’s car attempting to sing the whistle tones in Ariana Grande’s “The Way”-Katherine When I fell and hit my legs on some rocks- Emily I was stumbled two times. P.S.:I like Grande’s “the way”!-Vivian It was colder than I would have liked – Ms. Rbs....
Continue readingAppalachian Trail: Petals from our hikers
Monday’s Petals Bonding with everyone on the trail-Luke All of the farm animals that we saw during the drive up-Katherine Getting the chance to hang out with people that I don’t normally have the chance to see-Emily The scene along the way-Vivian Most, but not all, of the music played in the car ride...
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