Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
We arrived right before the grounds opened at 10 am after a short journey up 295. We checked in to the welcome center and met up with our tour guide, Stan. Stan was incredibly friendly and told us about the history of the grounds and how it used to be the old New Jersey...
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Today we started off with a practice of yoga for an hour. After an energetic practice of yoga, we ate breakfast. We made leftover pancakes, chia pudding, rice pudding, and eggs which came from Ms. Edmund’s chicken farm. Afterwards, we walked over to the yoga studio on Main Street to do Aerial Yoga. We...
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Today was our last proper day of the England & Ireland trip, and our first full day in London. We got up, had breakfast, and the hotel, and went on our way. We first stopped outside Buckingham Palace for photos and to watch the houses guards come down the street. Right after, we hopped...
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This morning we visited the Garden of Archimedes, which is a museum for mathematics. We saw many different geometrical contraptions revolving around hyperbolas, parabolas, circles, and ellipses. It is important to note that the “garden” aspect is figurative. We learned that there are more efficient ways to transport items by knowing the properties of...
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This Wednesday for our Yoga Intensive Learning, we took a trip to Amico Island. The morning started off with our daily yoga practice, followed by breakfast. Breakfast included granola, yogurt, chia seed pudding, and banana bread. After eating breakfast, a lesson was introduced about the seven universal truths.These truths conveyed that you are exactly...
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Today, some of us started off our morning with a 550 piece puzzle which we finished in an hour. Soon after the puzzle was completed, we then began to sew intricate, simple, and beautiful quilts, burp cloths, bibs, and pants. After we took had a brief break, we then starting sewing even more things...
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We started our day with a glorious bus ride to Bryn Mawr. Traffic was light, surprisingly, and we were all anxious to get working on our projects. As we arrived, we put our belongings inside the Harriton house and then went out to the forges to start the fires. Two of the fires started...
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A beautiful spring day for our visit to this amazing plant museum. There are all kinds of collectors out there. Pierre du Pont collected plants and trees. Today we learned a little something about a garden that is bigger than Harry’s home town of Wenonah. We toured the gigantic conservatory, a welcome tropical respite...
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Today’s multicultural Philadelphia experience included a tour of some of the murals that are found throughout the city of Philadelphia. We got to learn about how people use art as a way to express their beliefs, gratitude, and emotion. We had the opportunity to walk around Philly to see murals that depicted the LGBTQIA...
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We began our fifth day of Food: Cooking, Culture, and Custom’s with a game of jeopardy centered around food and culture. We learned lots of cool, random fact about cooking. For example, we learned that forcing oil and water to mix is called emulsion. We also learned that evaporating all or virtually all water...
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Today we went on a walking tour around the city of Florence. We met our tour guide and began on our trek. We saw the impression of the David statue. Then we went around and saw The Rape of the Sabine Women and the Perseus statue. He gave a great and thorough explanation. We...
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The day started out with breakfast in Julie’s room. She went to the market the day before to buy us cereal, milk, chocolate croissants, yogurt, and fruit. We then got on the bus for a 2-hour ride through the rain forest at the northern end of Martinique. We eventually arrived in St. Pierre which...
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Wednesday, March 27 Today was a great day. We departed Gibara at 9AM, a nice late start for us. Once we arrived back at our home in Holguin, we changed our clothes and headed to our beloved plaza. We had some last minute shopping to do. After our adventure in the plaza, we headed...
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Monday, March 25 We all woke up at 8:30 for a divine meal cooked by our friends at the church. We left soon after and arrived at a new church in Gibara where we would stay for the next two nights. We were greeted with a delicious lunch and amazing new dorms and hot...
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Tuesday, March 26 Today we woke up around 7:30 for a magnificent breakfast. It consisted of fresh fruit, butter crackers, and a fried treat! Yum! Afterwards, we got ourselves prepared for a day of work. ten of us went to another Quaker Meeting House to prepare it for a new paint makeover! The others...
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