Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
” … my recent experience with ProNica in Nicaragua had helped me to understand the concept of solidarity.” MFS teacher and Nicaragua trip leader Andrea Robinson blogged about her Intensive Learning experience on the ProNica blog: Moorestown Friends School Students and Casa del Niño...
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Today we convened in Ms. Henneberry’s classroom and began to curate a collection of photos for a interfaith slideshow. We then boarded the bus to make our way to Philadelphia. Today’s place of interest was the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Our tour started with a visit to a Japanese Buddhist temple. We learned ways to identify Buddha, some...
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As I find myself in the airport reflecting on the week, I would first like to thank the parents for allowing us to take this wonderful group. They worked hard, knew how to interact with kids and adults, and they had lots of fun. It was nice not to have to be a chaperone...
Continue readingToday we started our day off by having breakfast at 7:30. After breakfast we went on a public bus to go to the Shaanxi Museum at 8:30. The Shaanxi Museum had four different galleries that all related to China’s history and culture. While at the museum we split into teams and had a mini...
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Dispatch from Nicaragua: “We are leaving our hostel at 8:00 am today for the airport, flying to Panama City and then from Panama City to Washington, D.C. And then hopefully at MFS by 5:00 am tomorrow morning.”...
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A history of Nicaragua — notes from a lecture by Aynn Setright Nicaragua is divided into three regions, the Miskito coast in the Caribbean named for indigenous people who live there, the central region and the Pacific coast. 1503 — Christopher Columbus came to Nicaragua and the Conquistadores came down from Mexico in search...
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Thursday, March 31st Today we woke up to our last wonderful breakfast at the hostel. We were quite reluctant to leave the friendly staff and footpath to the lookout tower, which provided many of us a safe haven for reflection and self discovery. We climbed into the bus for a 5-hour drive through the...
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We awakened later than usual due to our special day. It has finally arrived! The day we go to Disney World has come. We got breakfast around 9:30, excited for what’s in store for the day. We bump our music on the way to Disney, filled with excitement. Once we entered the Magic Kingdom,...
Continue readingAll good things have to come to an end! Unfortunately that time has come on our San Franciso trip. Sadly we also had to say goodbye to our driver, Calvin, and our beloved tour guide, Lance! His wisdom and knowledge will surely be missed! Friday we started with a two-and-a-half hour bike tour of...
Continue readingToday we spent the day at 华山 or Mount Hua. We started off our day with a 7:30 breakfast and departed in two vans soon after. With the large amount of traffic in Xi’an during the morning, it took about two hours to reach our destination. After stopping at a rest stop, we ended...
Continue readingWe are going out again on the fifth day! The first place to go will be the University of Pennsylvania East Asian Civilization Dept. We listened to three speakers talk about Chinese poems, Study of Japan, and Asian Buddhism. After that, we went to a Japanese Tea House, which has authentic Japanese style architecture,...
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After lunch, we finally got to set up our ceramic totem poles on the MFS grounds. The poles consist of cylinders, pinch pots and other shapes stacked on top of one another. Each person made at least 3 pieces for the totem poles. Each piece was decorated individually to represent the individual and the...
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Today we stayed on campus to complete all of our projects both individual and group — photography, sculpture, mandalas and totems abound! It was a great way to end our week of exploration and creation. The photos say it all …...
Continue readingIt started raining and thundering today, keeping us from applying the final coats of Penetrol to the spars. We were able to move some smaller pieces of the boat undercover, where some of us scraped some paint off the wood and then repainted it. Those of us outside got drenched in horizontally-falling rain water, so it...
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Today we went to the Perkins Center for the Arts to help out in the garden. First, we split up into four groups and set to work weeding the raised flower beds. Under the grey overcast sky, we tilled the soil and planted all types of vegetables and herbs. Then we cleaned up the grounds,...
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