Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today on our last full day in Costa Rica, we went back to the school to finish up the projects we started and continued painting and gardening. After that the group painted and decorated all of the flower pots and created beds for different plants. We planted onions, peppers, purple decorative vines, and other...
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This trip quickly became less about mindfulness and leadership and more about . . . Survival! In all seriousness, the trip was much harder than any of us expected, including our guides. With anywhere between one and three feet of snow still on the ground in the mountains, hiking was not easy. Day...
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Today, we started off the day with an amazing breakfast at our 5-star hotel. After a one-hour bus ride, we arrived at the Yikang Nursing Home. We learned that they have three buildings in total. The one we were going to visit had 23 floors. All the rooms there are designed to meet the...
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Today we got to sleep in a little. Later, we stopped at two sinkholes known as the Twins formed by collapsed lava rock. Everybody got great pictures. Then we got on the bus and headed to the airport. Our flights were short from the Galápagos to Guayaquil then from Guayaquil to Quito. After baggage...
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This morning we started the day with breakfast at 7 am at the Buena Vista lodge restaurant. We enjoyed the meal and were ready for a great day. Our main instructor took us out to a lab where lodge workers make soap on the daily and showed us the process. We dressed up in...
Continue readingToday we started off the day traveling to Narbonne, where we did a scavenger hunt in the market and walked around the city. We went to a historic Roman road that was built around 120 BC and was not discovered until 1997. After our short stop at Narbonne we made our way to the...
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Our final day in the Galápagos was certainly one to remember. We started out the day the same as yesterday, with an early breakfast and getting on our speed boats for our two-hour trip to San Cristobal. San Cristobal is the youngest of the five large islands. When we got there we got to...
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Today we started out our second day in Costa Rica. After breakfast, the first activity we participated in was horseback riding through the beautiful landscape of Guanacaste. Each member of our group got their very own horse. After three hours of trekking through the tropical woods, we reached the first waterfall and took some...
Continue readingToday we woke up early and ate a delicious breakfast in the Nanjing Airport Hotel. We then took a lovely bus ride to the train station where we departed from our amazing tour guide, Li Li, who sang us a captivating song that captured the essence of our eternal friendship. After the surprisingly short...
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Today was visiting day for Canine IL. We had our last presentation from Semper Fido, who train shelter dogs to be service dogs for veterans who suffer from PTSD and traumatic brain injury. The presentation was very moving. Today, we had a total of 9 canine visitors. We want to thank their owners for...
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Today we sewed during the morning to put the final touches on our final projects. We scurried up to Starbucks to get a lil’ snack after the drill and to take a short break. After that we had another snack with spring-themed treats. We had some colorful cookies, some yummy chocolate eggs, and we even had...
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The last day of Glass Art Intensive Learning was spent finishing the projects we started at the beginning of the week. Today we learned how to solder, which is an art all in itself. Soldering is the metal that goes in between the pieces of glass to hold them together to be one piece....
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We started off our day of Intensive Learning by doing our presentations in preparation for our final “pitches” to various faculty and staff members. Our last set of feedback from these members of the MFS community both encouraged our ideas and suggested alternative and new ways to approach the topic. We learned that the...
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Today we went to the historically Jewish area of Philadelphia. We took a tour through the area and learned about the most important people and places that made up the Jewish neighborhood, one being Commodore Levy, who was in the Navy and once said, “I am an American, a sailor, and a Jew.” There...
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Hvar, our first destination of today, is the second longest island in the Adriatic sea, and has a current population of roughly eleven thousand people. It is a former Yugoslavian controlled territory, and consists of five main parts: the arsenal, the dukes palace, the fortress, and living areas for the commoners and the nobles....
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