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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!

Un Début de Cuisson et Peu de Soleil ? Oui, S'il Vous Plaît!

What better way to get a French experience than to cook your own French meal? Today we enjoyed the wonderful beach by the famous La Fregate hotel and got to cook our own dinner! We split up into ...

Cooking at St. Jean Cap Ferrat

Abbey Road‘s program in St-Laurent-du-Var has provided us again with a beautiful excursion. We spent the morning as we normally do, eating breakfast with our host families and then heading ...

Merci, France

I have finally enjoyed the pleasure of going to French beaches – and they are even better than I thought! The water is perfectly cool and clear; the big rocks on the shore double as a hot ...

Second Week in Aix

On Monday, we started the regular rhythm of our program in Aix. Every morning, our students have French class with our teachers, Sophie and Jen. All classes are divided in two parts: The first ...

Un Coup de Soleil

In French,”J’ai attrape un coup de soleil” simply means that “I got a sunburn”, which is true as I really did get a terrible sunburn today. Even though it may imply ...

Whisks and Batter and Chocolate - Oh My!

The highlight of my week so far has been the day we headed to St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat for a day at the beach and a foray into the world of cooking. We divided ourselves into three groups and cooked two ...

Nice Jazz Festival

Last night, the we went to the Nice Jazz Festival! Some in the program expressed interest, so the staff looked into buying tickets for the concerts. Kathy, our program director, was taking a count ...

Concerts, French Films, and Old Nice

Bonsoir! This week has been a blast! Last night, we all went to the Nice Jazz Festival. We saw John Legend and C2C perform live… they were phenomenal! This morning after French class, we all ...

A Day in Aix-en-Provence

Bonjour again from Aix-en-Provence! The first week of classes is quickly coming to a close. With French classes every morning and either art or French conversation in the afternoon, students are ...

French immersion Program

Some of my friends and I signed a form that promised we wouldn’t speak a word of English for the whole trip! It’s a huge commitment, but it is worth it, because it really help better ...

by Student, Alexis R. , Tennessee

Seldom a Dull Moment

July 11: Monday we started our first true day of classes after the first week of getting acquainted with the city and visiting various cultural hubs in the south of France. As we near the end of ...

A Good First Week

The first week has begun, and we have fallen into the schedule of classes. We have classes every morning and electives three times a week. The classes are very interesting, because we talk about ...