Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Day Two We started off Day 2 with a bus tour around London, where we saw landmarks such as Buckingham Palace. Next we stopped for a visit at Westminster Abbey and toured around the grand cathedral. We got a quick bite to eat, and many of us enjoyed waffles and chocolate – YUM! After...
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Day Three Annie Today was amazing! We started out our day by visiting a small school after breakfast. We helped paint a playground and also some classrooms. We got to play with some of the local children. We all had an excellent meal of rice, salad, chips and pineapple juice together. When we finished...
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Day Two, Granada We finally got our luggage at 12 pm today, which was such a relief! Today was our first day of service where we made bread, worked on a mural, and worked on a garden. It was so amazing to get a feel for the authentic Spanish culture, and to get to...
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Day Two After breakfast at 7:30, we headed to the school to work with the children. When we got there, we were each assigned a child and we planted trees with them. We then helped the students to paint signs with the name of the tree and their name to place in front of...
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Day One by:- Jeremy, CJ, Sam, Olivia, and Colby After two flights – Philly to Miami and Miami to San Jose, we finally arrived in Costa Rica! Once we arrived, we got on the bus for the trip and headed towards our lodge. On the way, we stopped for lunch and had phenomenal strawberry...
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Day One Arrival 8 pm: view of the farms and desert on the way west, took a really cute bus for an hour heading to Santa Fee from the airport. Everybody went to bed really soon after the long plane and bus rides. After everybody had breakfast by 8 am before we walked into...
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Today we learned about the history and mission of the Harriton House and then got right to work getting the fires going and trying our hands at making hooks. All of the students jumped right in. On Monday, we will learn a few new techniques. Students have already started thinking about individual projects they...
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Day One Today in our Exploring Art intensive learning trip we traveled to Fairmount Park in order to address the remains of a former home as a location for site-specific art. The structure was a mere ruin with visible entrances, however there were no doors or windows. Many street artists have taken advantage of...
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The kids are, I hope, blogging about our day, but here’s my own journal. Yesterday was pretty much what you’d expect from a day-long trip. Lots of waiting, less than spectacular food, the exhaustion that comes with sitting all day. But all flights were on time, and all connections worked perfectly, and we arrived...
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MFS Boys’ Lacrosse started the season with impressive Varsity and Junior Varsity victories over Lower Cape May 5 – 3, and 3 -1 yesterday. The boys were in high spirits today at practice and enthusiastically cleaned out the Fencing Teams storage area. The boys will prepare for their flight to Phoenix tomorrow and begin...
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After 20 hours of traveling, the Spain group has finally reached our first stop, Granada, Spain. We left MFS around 1:15 pm for Newark airport. After arriving at the airport, we checked in and got some food before our long flight to Paris, France. The flight was approximately 6 hours and 30 minutes. We...
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Day One/Two Our trip had a rough start after having to switch planes, resulting in a delay. We got to London later than expected but we are still off to a great start! Today we took the tube to see Leicester square, Trafalgar Square, and to eat dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. We’re...
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Well, today was glamorous. The day started off with everyone filling up their reusable water bottles. We left in awesome SUVs for the Camden Children’s Garden and I, David, DJed the heck out of the ride. I accidentally changed songs when everyone got really into the music and after that almost had to walk...
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Day One Today was all about building trust and getting to know each other better as a group. We started the day by talking about the definition of theatre, and then we started building up energy through games. We did trust activities like trust falls and leading “blind” people through activities. We explored how...
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