Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today was day 3! We went on a fun hike in the Pine Barrens. When we got to Pineland Adventures in Shamong, our tour guide John Volpa gave us an overview about the Pine Barrens and the history about the bog iron industry that developed there. Then we took a bus to the starting...
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Today, we went back to the Restore. Most of us moved carpets and stacked large boxes in the alternate warehouse for most of the day. Although, a few of us remained in the store’s main warehouse to help organize and restock the inventory. We jammed out to some sweet tunes on a boombox, and...
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Day 3 of MFS Spanish Culture was a success! As a continuation of yesterday’s activities, we accompanied the bilingual kindergarten and first grade classes of Southwark School to Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum. The 10 of us divided into groups to guide the kids through the museum. The many exhibits provided them with opportunities...
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Everyone embarked on different projects today. After we made some jumpers, dresses, and other baby outfits, our projects were hung on display in front of the window to display our hard work. After picking up food from Main Street, we headed back and settled into an afternoon of hard work....
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3/29/16: After a good night’s sleep we had another early start today and ate breakfast at 6:30 AM. At about 7:00 AM we left the hotel and headed over to Give Kids the World. We all had new jobs like helping children to get their stars placed on the walls of the Castle and...
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Yesterday, we visited the Philadelphia Art Museum. We looked at the Asian Art, such as old Alchemist bottles. We experienced what it was like to live in Japan about 100 years ago in the Tea House. Afterwards, we went to a Korean BBQ. We ate delicious food that was very cultural to the region of Korea....
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Today we helped in a bilingual class of kindergarteners and first graders. They were so cute. It was a lot of fun to talk to them in Spanish. We headed off to Philadelphia to visit Southwark, an elementary school introducing a bilingual program. We helped out with kindergarten and first graders who were doing...
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This morning, we reflected on our time spent yesterday with members of Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Our teachers, Dito, Alex and Olivia, worked with us on creating original pieces of theatre. We started the day with games and activities that made us aware of our own physical selves and our connections to...
Continue readingToday our first stop was at Coursera. We met Mrs. Barna’s son, Peter (MFS Alumni ’11) in front of their headquarters. We learned all about Coursera’s mission and how they plan to accomplish it. We experienced first hand a true startup tech company and its culture. Our next stop was to Symantec....
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Today, after breakfast we walked again to Casa del Niño. We mixed rocks, sand, cement, and water to pour into the holes we made yesterday. Some of us removed nails from wood and others carried rocks to be put in the ground. The beams were still being painted with a few more to go....
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After the tour yesterday we were ready to start working. Today we worked on sanding different parts of the masts for the boat. In total we sanded close to 5 masts. This was to prep the masts for the varnish tomorrow so that the new varnish will stay on the wood for a while....
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Today we woke up early in the morning. We got out of bed all packed and ready to go at 7 am. We left our hotel in Beijing and took a bus to the Beijing airport. While we were there several students bought Starbucks near our gate. A taste from home! We departed from...
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This morning we went to the Casa Del Niños art school. We did many different service projects, such as painting beams, shoveling old footings so that new foundation can be put down, cutting rebar, and then making them into squares for rebar foundations. Then we went to a women’s craft collective. There we learned the...
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Today we spent the entire day at FES participating in workshops and classes with the community members. In the first part of the day we had the option of finishing the mural, making bread, making dream catchers and mosaics, or working in the garden. We had lunch and merienda with the community and had a...
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Today we were exposed to many new sights and experiences. We started our morning with a hearty breakfast, followed by shopping around the city of Hamburg. For lunch we dined at various places ranging from German bakeries to curry-wurst stands. Afterwards, we made the three-hour trek from Hamburg to Wolfsburg. Upon arriving, we...
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