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To celebrate THINK Global School’s 2015 term in Athens, Greece, we’ve compiled seven interesting facts about this fascinating country. We really enjoyed our three months living and learning in Greece, and hope you find these facts useful!   Fact #1: Some of Greece’s olive trees are over 3,000 years old Personally, I marvel at the massive 300 year old trees in my neighborhood, but compared to Greece’s 2,000 year old...

On Saturday, April 18th, 2015, our ninth, tenth, and twelfth grade students embarked on their first weXplore trip of their Greece term: a visit to Delphi, a UNESCO World Heritage site containing well-preserved ruins steeped in mythological history. Throughout the course of the day they’ll have the chance to explore the Temple of Apollo, the Delphi Archaeological Museum, and the 5,000 seat Delphi theater, a limestone marvel that offers panoramic...

Students helping Honduras At the beginning of my March 2015 trip to Honduras, I had a chance to sit through Shin Fujiyama’s opening speech to an incoming group of student volunteers from Clemson, Stony Brook, University of Maryland, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. I’ve heard versions of this talk several times before when I’ve brought groups of high school students down to volunteer at Villa Soleada and El Progreso....

What if the world was your classroom, a plane was your school bus, and teenagers from six continents were your classmates? 46 teenagers from all walks of life leave their homes and friends to embark upon a worldwide tour with an innovative, nomadic high school. With the mission of becoming global citizens, these globe-trotting teens soon discover lessons of the road and grow to define for themselves what a global...

I couldn’t possibly tell every story at TGS; not only would the sheer number be insurmountable, but those stories shouldn’t all come from my perspective. All I can do is watch, ask, and imagine how people experience the moments we share together. My first international trip was to Italy when I was 16. I lived in a convent and explored a hill town in Umbria, expressing my thoughts daily through...

Editor’s Note: The following post first appeared on THINK Global School student Sydney M.’s blog, Train Case Travels. Visit Syndey’s blog regularly to keep up with her adventures! I took these photos one year ago in Hiroshima, Japan, during a long after-school bike ride. It was almost always a bit grey on the streets of Hiroshima, but the gloominess fit the architecture of the city in a peaceful sort of...

Our recently concluded term in Spanish-speaking Costa Rica was a nostalgic one for graduating senior Liisa T., as her month there was filled with daily reminders of her very first term in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In ‘I want to go somewhere where the stars in the sky are different,’ Liisa looks back fondly on that first term while realizing just how far she’s come in the last two and a...

During the Winter Term of THINK Global School’s 2014-15 school year, the 9th and 10th grade students spent 34 days exploring Costa Rica. As they made their way across this Central American paradise, they spent time living with local families; studied primates and dolphins; immersed themselves within rainforests; whitewater rafted down rivers; and studied marine biology on pristine beaches. Head of School Jamie Steckart joined Team Omega for a ten-day...

As the first term of our 2014-15 school year recently wound to a close in New Zealand, I looked through the student survey responses for my course and remembered one of my opening statements to the ninth and tenth grade students: “We run an educational model that is complicated but impressively different than most schools around the world. In order to set the foundation for optimal learning at our unique...

While enrolled at THINK Global School, students are encouraged to be creative during the course of their studies and travels. When the students document these thoughts, we are often delighted with the results. In "The people you meet while traveling," 12th grader Liisa T. reflects on some of her more memorable travel encounters over the years, and wonders if she will one day make an impression on a traveler that...