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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!

Boston, Session 1

  For starters, the Abbey Roads College Prep program has been an amazing experience for me and I encourage any fellow hard-working student to seize this opportunity if they have the chance. ...

by Student, Kenley W. , Boston, USA

I Loved Leadership Academy

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Saying Goodbye to Leadership Academy

I can’t believe tonight is my last night with Abbey Road… I am going to miss everyone at my camp so much! I have made such amazing friendships with everyone that I can’t imagine leaving; ...

The Final Days in Palo Alto

Well, we leave tomorrow, and I’m going to miss everybody at Abbey Road! On Sunday, we went to the Great America theme park. This was one of my favorite excursions! We rode about a million ...

Exploring San Francisco

So far, the other Leadership Academy kids and I have been enjoying the three day break we’ve had from classes. For our last day this weekend, we went to San Francisco on Caltrain. Once we ...

NorCal Done Right: Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco

Leadership Academy students got a break from their academic pursuits to visit the coastal town of Monterey. While the weather did not cooperate and relaxing on the beach was not an option, ...

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 ...

Classes and a Break for Baseball

Leadership Academy students got their first taste of class yesterday in Lonjezo Hamisi’s course on international relations. In the afternoon, they explored Stanford’s campus and ...

Leadership Academy Begins

Hey, this is John. Monday was the first day of the Abbey Road Leadership Academy at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. There are only three guys here at the program, so we became ...

Welcome to Stanford Leadership Academy!

Hello from the beautiful town of Palo Alto! After a long day of traveling, Abbey Road Programs‘ 2013 Leadership Academy at Stanford University has officially begun! The students were given ...

My experience with Abbey Road Programs at Stanford - by Zoe S.

What made you go looking for a summer program like Leadership Academy? Well, I am really interested in politics and different people’s views and opinions. I figured this program would give me ...

by Student, Zoe S. , Virginia