Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
By Zak B., Jadin F., & Richard F. Today was our final day and night of our Intensive Learning trip to the Dominican Republic. Our destination was Cayo Arena, a remote sandbar off the northern coast of the DR. We were excited to spend our last day at the beach, after almost a week...
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Today was the fourth day of the MFS IL France trip. We spent our first night with our host families and woke up bright and early to have breakfast with the families. The big group then met together in downtown Carcassonne. We began our day with a walk to the famous Cité de Carcassonne....
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Today we woke up and started our day off by having breakfast at 7:30. For breakfast we had a buffet that had an assortment of great pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, and yogurt. At 8:30 we left the hotel and headed out to our first destination of the day: zip lining. It was an hour...
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Today, we started the morning at last night’s hotel, Hodelpa Centro Plaza in Santiago. After a nice buffet breakfast, we all met our tour leader, Brayan, in the hotel conference room for a quick Spanish lesson. We learned a few words to assist us in our work at el Instituto Ambiental, including árbol (tree),...
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We started our first day very early, arriving at school at 4:30 a.m. We ventured by bus to JFK, where we had ample time to explore and get some bagel sandwiches! After a three-hour flight and some napping, we arrived in Santiago and immediately felt the hot, humid weather as we stepped off the...
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Today was our second day of mindfulness. The theme today was personal growth. We started the day by writing in our journals writing about what our goals were for the next hour, day, week, year, and decades. Then we did a guided “become your best self” meditation so we could focus and get ready...
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Sky is clear! Range clear! Launch in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Upper School math teacher Larry Ottman leads the young rocketeers. When it’s a student’s turn to launch, they set up the rocket on the launcher and take the controls. Then, the safety protocols. They crane their necks to scan the sky, one...
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This morning the Upper School launched “June Week,” the much-anticipated adaptation of Moorestown Friends’ beloved Intensive Learning program, which was cancelled two years in a row due to the lengthy COVID-19 pandemic. Although the program will be a short version of IL, it promises to be no less sweet as MFS teachers share their...
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Today at Magic Kingdom started off with rain, but ended with beautiful fireworks set to the wonderful music of our favorite Disney movies. By the time we exited our first ride this morning, the sun had come out, and we knew it would be a great day. We rode roller coasters, were haunted by...
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March 23rd, 2019 Today was such a great and long day! We all had the morning and most of the afternoon to ourselves. The juniors woke up early and went to the pool. The seniors all slept in and made pancakes. Everyone got a chance to enjoy the sunny, 80-degree weather and chill back...
Continue readingMarch 31, 2017 On our last day in Cuba, we visited a beautiful farm in the small town of Alcalá, about an hour and a half away from Holguín. Getting to this farm was probably the most challenging part of the day as our tour bus could not drive through a patch of fertilizer...
Continue readingThursday, March 30 For the first time in almost a week, we were forced to awaken close to six in the morning. However, this was a nice change from our typical schedule of service and local touring. Today we went to Santiago de Cuba, a lovely, historic city in southern Cuba, that holds many...
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Today we woke up early to practice an energizing vinyasa flow. As part of the last practice we were encouraged for one song to let go of everything and to be free as we danced around the room. Afterwards we headed to breakfast to enjoy our last meal together, homemade yogurt and grains and...
Continue readingExcursión MFS filled the hallways with the wonderful smells of homemade tamales, flan cake, guacamole, and churros cookies today. We cooked a feast! After a wonderful week with an enthusiastic group of students, we sat and enjoyed one another over a delicious meal....
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Wednesday, March 29 Today we woke up at 8:30 to eat breakfast and get started on the exciting day we had planned. After breakfast, we split into two groups. Most of our group went outside to the street in front of the church to unload a bus carrying 312 cases of Bibles for the...
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