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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!

First weekend in Cádiz - tapas, surfing and telenovelas

by Hayden M. Hola! It has been an exciting weekend here Cadiz with a lot going on. On Saturday, we had a more in-depth tour of old Cadiz. We stopped at a gorgeous park where there was also a ...

First Week In Cádiz

by Chris Bond, Cádiz Program Director We have had a great beginning to out first week of classes. On Monday, we split into two language groups–beginning and advanced–and started ...

First Days in Cádiz

by Chris Bond – Cádiz Program Director I’ll write more soon, but I’ve got to run out for our evening activity at a Moroccan teahouse (also somewhat short this time because the ...

Bienvenidos a Cádiz

by George H. July 12-14, 2014 We’ve been to the beach Had coffees, churros, and more– Within just three days. This haiku perfectly describes the epic whirlwind that this trip has been ...

Welcome to Florence!

by Sara E. June 12-14, 2014   The excitement continues as we are just hours away from being in Florence! We all met and said our hello’s at JFK while buying overpriced snacks for our ...

Welcome to Cádiz

by Hayden M. June 12-14, 2014 Hola! I’m Hayden and I’m currently on the Cádiz homestay program. We arrived in Madrid, Spain on Thursday morning, everyone exhausted from the long ...

On Language Acquisition

by Andrew Boas, Abbey Road Student, France 2014 The acquisition of linguistic skills and cultural understanding is an all-encompassing and constantly growing aspect of both my education and my ...

Time Flies

by Marissa Muller, AR student reporter Here at University, I am involved in the student government of my college. And yesterday, we had our elections for our executive positions that were opening ...

Preparing Myself for a Full-on Language Immersion Experience

by Ariel Pearl-Butler, Abbey Road Student, Spain 2014 As the trip to Spain draws nearer, I have begun to expose myself to Spanish on a day-to-day basis. This is, of course, in addition to my ...

by Student, Alexis R. , Tennessee

The capital of Italian fashion is... Florence?

by Carrie Osborn, Abbey Road staff I know, I know.  You hear “Italian fashion” and think “Milan,” right?  You wouldn’t be wrong – the international northern ...

Wanderlust

by Marissa Muller, AR student reporter   Wanderlust is a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world. This can be sparked by any number of things. It could be from ...

Top Ten in Cádiz

by Ariel Pearl-Butler, Abbey Road Student, Spain 2014 While I am not going to Spain until July, I am getting very excited to be staying on the coast of Andalucia, in Cádiz. I did my own research ...