Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today, we finally returned to help rebuild the Habitat house in Riverside. Before we left, the group played games such as Jenga, chess, and Connect 4 while listening to older music (courtesy of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Newman!). When we arrived at the house, we cleared out all the supplies in order to lay...
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Mrs. Barna sent a text to say that all is well in Coope San Juan!...
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Wednesday, March 25th was an exiting day at Bayshore. We were split up into groups to work on different things. One group cleaned and varnished wooden blocks while another varnished spars. After a refreshing snack break, we scraped the paint off wooden deck boxes to repaint later. We had a surprise visit from everyone’s...
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Today, we started off at the Kimmel Center, located on the Avenue of the Arts. Designed by Rafael Vinoly, the Kimmel Center contains many spaces, including Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, and the Dorrance H. Hamilton Roof Garden, all of which we visited. Verizon Hall and Perelman Theater are, in fact, two separate buildings; in...
Continue readingOn Tuesday, we visited the fascinating collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts in the Penn Museum. Before we left, we educated ourselves on the difference between archaeologists and anthropologists. For those of you who don’t know, anthropology is the study of humans and archaeology are the study of the past. We saw real mummies and...
Continue readingToday started bright and early with a scorching practice. Remembering from last year how talented the Desert Vista offense is, we implemented a new wrinkle in our defensive squad: the “In and Out” zone defense, named after In and Out Burger, the team’s habitual burger joint in Arizona. After a hardworking practice in which...
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On Monday morning, one of our students introduced the class to some Vietnamese culture! She brought in some of her lovely dresses, and gave us some lessons on the geography. She also filled us in on the timeline, with the general history of the country! Next, we traveled to the local Filipino Cultural Center, with...
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Today in Florence, we went to San Lorenzo, the parish of the Medicis, the Medici Riccardi Palace,the Medici’s former home, and the Palazzo Vecchio, the former government offices of the Medicis. San Lorenzo was the Medici’s parish church, and although it appears rather ordinary from the outside, it was strikingly elegant on the inside. We...
Continue readingTo begin the day, we continued the construction on the church that will provide shelter for the community as well as a meeting place for other visitors and Quaker conferences. The construction tools that we used were simple, so we transferred materials to the second floor of the new building using unconventional strategies: a...
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Today we woke up early in the morning and experienced breakfast in the town of Lyon. After we all had our delicious breakfast we proceeded with our day by walking to our service project site, a bicycle school called Maison du Vélo. We all split up into groups and got to do different service...
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Today we saw a MOOSE in New Jersey! Just kidding! This is one of the sculptures created in the Pine Barrens today. The Moose is Loose! Before heading out to Pakim Pond in the New Jersey Pine Barrens we spent the first hour of the day collecting the supplies that we needed to finish...
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It was a busy day for the Baseball team. This morning we got up early and put in another morning of service at the Low Country Food Bank. After a few hours of organizing food donations and packing them up for distribution, we got on the bus to head over to the Cal Ripken Experience...
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Today we visited the Cathedral and the Masonic Temple, two of the most ornate buildings in the city, had lunch at the famous Reading Terminal Market, and finished the day at City Hall over 900 feet up in the air, with a view of almost all of Philadelphia and the surrounding area. -LG First...
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Today students hopped right back into blacksmithing along with some work on the lathes. Three students completed canes, and other students completed projects like a hanger, a candle holder, and an “M.” The group has mastered the techniques to get the forges going in the morning and have been working on more difficult techniques....
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Today’s breakfast consisted of eggs and cheese in pita pockets with strawberries and grapes for a healthier option. After we cleaned up Barb taught us (against our will) all about dog’s anal glands 🙂 It was a good thing that we ate before that ordeal. After what seemed like an eternity of dog’s anuses we...
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