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Welcome to the Summer Program and Teen Travel Blog !
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
SYLVIA PLATH, THE BELL JAR

It is our wish to provide you, our valued readers, with engaging and interesting information about the spectacular world around us, and, hopefully, the words you find here will also inspire you to get out, to learn, to live, and above all else, to travel!

Last Week in Cadiz

by Hayden M. We are officially done with classes! However, it is sad because that means we only have a few short days left here in Cadiz. This week, we have gone and visited a castle that is right ...

Last Week: Florence Session 1

by Sara E. As the week ends, we all realize the best trip of our lives is also ending. This week lead to some of the most amazing memories of my life and I don’t know what we’re ...

Cádiz Post 3: The Selfie Submission and Why We're Moving at 0.99c

I’ll start off with my submission to this selfie war just to make sure the Italians have a lot of work to do. Once I’ve thoroughly established that this Cádiz session is truly the ...

Cádiz: "Camera Obscura," Castillo de Santa Catalina & Populo

by Chris Bond – Cádiz Program Director As we start counting down (sadly) the days until the end of the trip, we’re still keeping quite busy.  We visited the Torre Tavira the other ...

Cádiz: holidays, optical devices and tapas

by Hayden M. Hola from Cadiz! This weekend was more of a relaxed one. Friday, We went into new Cadiz and hung out at the beach where we had a take out from a local restaurant and ate on the beach ...

Another great weekend in Cádiz

It’s been a busy few days! Unfortunately, I (program director, Chris Bond) have been ill the last few days, so I don’t currently have any photographs for you.  I’ll make it up ...

by Staff, Chris Bond , Cádiz Program Director

First Week in Cadiz

by Hayden M. Hola! The first week of classes is officially over and this past week has flown by. Since Tuesday we have attended our morning classes, per usual, hungout, watched some “futbol”, ...

Leather, David, and David vs. Goliath

by Sara E. On Thursday, we took a tour of one of Firenze‘s most amazing leather schools. We all stood around the gilder, as he stamped in the gold patterns of his imagination, in awe. The ...

Cádiz: Surfing & World Cup

Friday June 20, 2014 by Chris Bond, Cádiz Program Director Things are going beautifully here in Cadiz, and everyone is settling in, seeing huge improvements in their language skills, and getting ...

Week 1 in Florence - Time Flies!

Florence Session 1 is off to a fantastic start!  From the moment our students turned the corner onto the picturesque little cobble-stone street that we call home for the duration of our program, ...

by Staff, Carrie Osborn , Florence Session 1 Program Director

Cádiz: Selfies, Surfing, Shopping, Scavenging, Sushi, and Spanish

by George H. Selfies, Surfing, Shopping, Scavenging, Sushi, and Spanish…That’s a real mouthful (just like the atún rojo nigiri I had today). To mix things up I’ll go sans haiku ...

First weekend in Florence - bonding, classes and views

by Sara E. On Sunday we traveled by bus to fiesole, a city in the mountains. We hiked a huge mountain to prepare for our lunch and games. During our picnic, we learned more about each other by ...