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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!

Dali, Figueres and Girona

This weekend was very fun! On Saturday we went to Figueres, home to the well known Salvador Dali Museum, also where Dali was born. It was a very cool museum and we got to walk around and take ...

by Student, Sara B. , Florida

Visiting Miro Museum

On Thursday we had class in the morning which was so much fun!! We went to the beach and had time to soak in the sun and go into the refreshing water. While we were at the beach we learned and ...

by Student, Sara B. , Florida

Park Güell by Antoni Gaudí

This week has been amazing! On Thursday we had class in the morning. We went out to one of Barcelona’s famous plazas, which is the home to the big department store: El Corte Ingles, where we got ...

by Student, Sara B. , Florida

La Sagrada Familia

On Tuesday we had class in the morning. In class we went to the central park in Barcelona, where we were sent on a scavenger hunt, testing our Spanish speaking skills and interactions to locate ...

by Student, Sara B. , Florida

Barcelona

July 10 We got to Barcelona on Wednesday and so far it is so much fun! Everyone is so nice and the food is so good. On Thursday we had class in the morning and then we went to a park. The park ...

by Student, Sara B. , Florida

Day Trip to Girona

During our first weekend in Barcelona we took a day trip to the city of Girona, about 60 miles northeast of Barcelona. The city was founded in 79 B.C.E and remains one of the major cities in the ...

Toledo, Spain

After getting off of the high speed train that brought us from Madrid, we walked up a large hill approaching the ancient city of Toledo. Passing over the fortified bridge and through cavernous ...

Arrival in Spain

The Madrid-Barcelona program got off to a running start as soon as our plane touched down in the early hours of July 7. After dropping our bags at the hotel in Madrid we strolled over to La Plaza ...

Adios, Barcelona!

I can’t believe I only have two more days in Barcelona! I’ve become so used to student life here I can’t imagine any other way of living. I’m trying to not think about ...

Goodbye, Barcelona!

On Wednesday, we had group salsa class in the morning. Afterward, we went to an amazing amusement park designed by Gaudí. The view from the amusement park was incredible and the views from the ...

Cuatro Dias!

  Hola! I can’t believe I only have four days left in Barcelona! I never thought a month could go by so fast. Our group has had so much fun exploring the city, and over the last couple ...

La Semana Final

On Sunday, we had morning classes and visited a refuge site that was used during the Spanish Civil war. It was cool and dark, and it felt like being in a cave. After morning classes, instead of ...