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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!

Normandy, France

Our newly developed troop began in a little town. A small, special place in all of our hearts… Normandy, France. The simple and short stay created friendships and a family bonding of sorts. We ...

by Student, Jacqueline H. , Modern Europe

Trip to Pisa

Saturday, we were given a free day to recuperate and rest. I mostly hung out in our apartments which are four apartments of around eight people each set up in a residential building. In the ...

by Student, Ise S. , NYC

Firenze

July 6, Monday We’ve only been in Florence three days but it has felt like weeks. The first day was mostly spent sleeping, recovering from jet lag, and meeting late arrivals. I’m sharing an ...

by Student, Meghan K. , Virginia

Merci, Paris!

We have arrived in the city of lights: Paris! After spending around two weeks in Italy, I had to change from saying Grazie (thank you in Italian) to Merci. After saying Gratis to numerous ...

Modern Europe Trip Highlights

Here’s a collection of the best photos on my phone from the trip. It’s been a blast, and we still have a whole day left! Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin with Arthur Kian Brandenburg Gate in ...

Time is Passing Too Quickly!!!

Each city has been better than the last. Vienna is the best, because it has the old city architecture with a new city vibe. Today we saw the Hapsburg summer palace and the Hapsburg ...

The Habsburgs of Vienna

Day 14 was all about the Habsburgs, the family that ruled the Holy Roman Empire and then the Austrian Empire for nearly 900 years… We traveled first to their summer palace, Schonbrunn, which ...

Modern Civ Off Again!

Day 13 and we are off again! Leaving at eight in the morning, we were on the road to Vienna and arrived at noon. After a quick lunch, students checked into their apartments, unpacked a bit, and ...

The Visit to a Concentration Camp

After a long six-hour bus ride yesterday, the mere two-hour ride to the concentration camp memorial felt like nothing… We’ve all read the unimaginable stories about the Holocaust, but ...

Second Day in Salzburg

On our second day in Salzburg, we took a 2-hour bus ride to an important, if intense, a site in Austrian history: the Mauthausen Memorial, dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. The location ...

Modern Civ Meets Salzburg

We are off again! Today we left for Salzburg at 8 in the morning, making our way through the beautiful countryside of the Czech Republic and Austria. We arrived in the late afternoon to a little ...

Expectations Surpassed!!!

Today we saw the most amazing view of Prague from the castle! The following photos sum up how great our experiences in Prague have been: Cemetery for the Czech Jews that died in the Holocaust. ...