The following is an entry from our Directors' Blog about our High School Spanish Summer Programs in Cadiz, Spain, written by the Program Director, Chris "Pancho" Bond. While your teens are enrolled in any of our programs, our Program Directors will keep you up to date with photos and stories describing the students' experience. Please ...
After a long day of jet lag and airport travels I successfully had a great first day in Florence, from eating a delicious mushroom pizza in a local restaurant near our hotel, to walking and visiting Milano Duomo, I already feel immersed in Italian culture and ready to conquer anything! The students are very lively and friendly despite ...
Today Chinese class got pretty heated, and it was all thanks to beans. We were arguing what use of the bean is more felicitous—the sweet bean pastes of Chinese cuisine or the savory bean dishes of Latin cuisine. It was our teacher and our exchange student from Shanghai versus myself and my friend Alex. Alex and I were arguing that beans are ...
This past Saturday our high school’s fall play “The Servant of Two Masters” wrapped production—after over two months of hard work we culminated in three shows. Like all shows I’ve ever been involved in, it was a blast. We had a great time working together over the weeks of rehearsals and despite it looking grim at the beginning the ...
There is saying that goes somewhere along the lines of you need to find a place to call home that can be your Paris. What this means is that you need to find a location to live and work that is as awesome to you as Paris is to the rest of the world. But there is one problem, what do you do when people can’t make a mid-sized town with a ...
This summer in Cádiz, in the south of Spain, I got used to a few things. For three weeks I would get out of bed and see this cathedral standing right in front of me, lit up with the morning sun just like this. This is the view from the apartment where I stayed with a roommate and a homestay mom during my time in Cádiz. The view’s not ...
People always say that a picture is worth a thousand words. While that may be true, one word can also be worth a thousand words if it comes from the right person and at the right time. I studied abroad over two years ago, but the friendships I made there are some that I will keep with me the rest of my life. Whenever I had to say goodbye ...
Florence has been rainy the last few days. The sun will be out, beating down on us, then abruptly, we're caught in a torrential downpour. Weather patterns are definitely different here. One such rainstorm hit as we waited in line at the Academia to see the famous statue of David. Once we got in though, things got a little better. The statue was ...
by Kathryn K. It's hard to believe that tomorrow I'll be on a plane flying home. It feels like I have both known these people forever and yet it was just yesterday that we first met and had dinner. We've made so many memories in this last week and I feel like the fun is only about to start--if we had more time of course. To start off, we've ...
Looking at all of the different programs to learn French and spend the summer with was the easy part, but choosing one was the hard part. I chose Abbey Road summer study abroad because of the homestay option, the extended period of time abroad, the optional Paris extension, the group size (about 30), all of the excursions, and also because it ...