Tuesday, March 28 We started the day with breakfast as usual, which consisted of scrambled eggs, ham, guava juice, freshly brewed Cuban coffee, bread, butter, and peanut butter. They also provided a native fruit spread that included juicy mango, succulent pineapple, and tangy guava. As usual, they set out pots of hot milk and...
Continue readingA Trip to Pine Island Cranberry Company
Today on our final excursion for the 2017 Pine Barrens Intensive Learning, we visited Pine Island Cranberry Company. Pine Island Cranberry Co. is a 14,000 acre stretch of land in the Pine Barrens that includes cranberry bogs, forests, and wildlife. We first watched a presentation on the history of the company, what jobs they...
Continue readingMarrakech Day 2: Hump Day
On our way to a camel riding excursion, we passed gardens made in the 12th century. Once we arrived, we were given traditional Berber garbs and turbans. We rode our camels through a palm tree farm, some of us even gave our camels names! Next we walked through the Jewish quarter of Marrakech and...
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Chinatown in New York — Asian Culture Day Four!
Today, the Asian Cultures Intensive Learning trip took our most distant trip, leaving New Jersey and nearby Philadelphia in order to explore the East Asian cultures thriving in Chinatown New York City. First, we stopped at an Art Gallery with an exhibit on Modern Japanese art. One part of the exhibit focused on the...
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Adventuring on our Last Day in the Dominican Republic
Today started off with another wonderful buffet getting us ready to go zip lining and explore caves. Once we got to the zip lining complex, we got strapped in our harnesses and were ready to go. We learned how to safely ride them and then we jumped right into it. We were all about...
Continue readingSacred Spaces in the City of Brotherly Amor
Today we visited the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Whole Foods, The Barnes Foundation, and a frozen yogurt place. At the Basilica, our tour guide, Louise, showed us around the altar, the many paintings and sculptures, and we saw the famous “cathedra” that was made for the Pope to sit...
Continue readingMagic’s In the Air!
Today was spent in the most magical place on earth … Disney World! After arriving, we traveled by ferry to the Magic Kingdom. Once there, we traveled with Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Carribbean, flew with Buzz Lightyear to defeat Emperor Zurg, became astronauts riding Space Mountain, and were treated like princes...
Continue readingBelly Dancing in Marrakech
Today we got to witness the incredible médina of Marrakech. We began by visiting a herbalist pharmacy, where we learned about how the famous Argan oil is made and tested many of the herbal products on our arms. Many of the students, including two of the bloggers for today, got a relaxing massage. By...
Continue reading‘And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.’
On Wednesday we traveled north to the absolutely breathtaking Lake District. Once we saw the landscape we understood why it inspired the Romantic poets and caused Pride and Prejudice‘s Lizzy Bennet to exclaim, “What are men to rocks and mountains!” We took a rainy but gorgeous hike above the village of Grasmere and visited...
Continue readingSouth Jersey Service Day 4: Perkins Center for the Arts
Today, we spent time at the Perkins Center for the Arts, at 30 Irwin Ave. in Collingswood. (There is a second location right in Moorestown, located at 395 Kings Highway). Led by Samantha Salazar, manager of Special Events and Education Assistant, we helped clean the massively impressive warehouse space, and we helped create artistic...
Continue readingPrototype Presentations, Pines, and Pizza
Today we started off the day by enjoying the donuts that Cameron had brought while finalizing our video prototypes to present to the Pinelands Preservation Association. In the foggy mist, we boarded the bus to get to the Pinelands. We presented our ideas to Mr. Howell, who provided valuable feedback essential to the Design...
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Let’s Sew for Babies: Day 4: Visiting Philadelphia NFP
We started off our day by gathering in the Greenleaf building and sewed until our departure for Philly at 9:00. We headed to the Nurse Family Partnership headquarters to learn about why we are sewing for babies. First, we took a tour of the office. Then, we learned about the every day schedules of...
Continue readingVisit to the Animal Adoption Center and Tour de Moorestown
Today half of us stayed at school and half of us went to the AAC shelter in Lindenwold. Back at school, we walked around Main Street to evaluate how pet friendly Main Street and other streets were. We noticed that some restaurants have outdoor seating that can allow canine companions to stay with them....
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Fellowship of the anvil
Today, we all got started by dropping our bags in the main building. Then we walked over to the forges to fire them up. After a few minutes most of them were hot enough for blacksmithing. At 11:30, the call for a early lunch was made and a few people walked back to the...
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Stratford-on-Avon: An Afternoon With the Bard
On Tuesday we left London behind and made a two-and-a-half hour drive to Shakespeare’s birth (and death) place, Stratford-on-Avon. We stopped first at his wife, Anne Hathaway’s beautifully preserved cottage and gardens. Once in town we broke for lunch and then toured the home where Shakespeare was...
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