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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!

Classes and Day Trips at Leadership Academy

This week, we started our new class with Camille, who is teaching us about clean water. In the beginning of class, we watched a movie called Flow, which informed us about water systems around ...

Seeing the Sites in Northern California

So far, the program is very interesting. I’m becoming close to all the people in the program as well as learning a lot from our professors. On Thursday, we had a seminar on clean water with ...

Go Abbey Road!

Attending an Abbey Road program is an opportunity that few kids my age can seize, and I can tell you, within the short time I’ve been here, it’s practically paid for itself! I’ve ...

A Visit to Tarragona

On Saturday we went to Tarragona, a city located in the south of Catalonia. We had a chance to walk through ancient ruins of the Roman Empire. The 2nd century amphitheater, near the sea-shore, ...

Siena

Today we took a day trip to Siena, traveling on a winding road through the vineyards of Italy. A little known fact is that the hill country used to be full of wheat fields instead of vineyards and ...

Firenze is phenomenal!

Here we are in Florence, with only half of our program to go! Athens and Rome were both incredible, and I’m sure Florence and Paris will be too. When we arrived in Florence, our first ...

One More Week in Barcelona!

Headed into my last week of Barcelona! It makes me sad to think my trip is coming to an end, but we still have lots of exciting events ahead of us! Here are some exciting things we did this ...

St-Tropez and an Electro Concert

I had the opportunity to explore one of the most beautiful cities in the French Riviera: St-Tropez. Abbey Road students boarded the bus, and we drove off to the famous town. Upon arrival, we ...

Siena

Today we woke up early for our full-day excursion to the illustrious city of Siena and the wonderful art, museums, and cuisine it has to offer. The city is unique in that it is broken up into 17 ...

Emma's St-Laurent Photo Diary

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Un Bouton de Fièvre

Ever since I was little, I have always gotten cold sores. They hurt. They are ugly. There is surely nothing good about them. So today when I noticed the beginning signs of a cold sore underneath ...

Montserrat

Today we went to Monserrat, a many-peaked mountain near Barcelona. We visited a monastery there dedicated to La Moreneta– the Black Madonna. This Romanesque sculpture in wood from the ...