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The Boston Marathon, just like any official marathon, is the supreme test of an athlete’s ability to sustain the physical, emotional and psychological stresses associated with running 42.195 kilometers or 26 miles and 385 yards. Such a race always produces a number of runners who never cross the finishing line because they have had an accident, have injured themselves or have lost the will to continue having experienced the ultimate...

For long distance runners endowed with an insatiable and competitive spirit, marathons (and increasingly ultramarathons) represent the pinnacle of physical achievement. Training for such a daunting event requires intense preparation, unwavering commitment and extreme motivation, all three of which are incredibly admirable qualities to possess. In this sense, marathons are imbued with positivity and are typically joyous affairs. For the majority of us, the rigors of competing in such a...

The following entry was written by 11th grade student Jawed in response to the bombings that occurred in Boston on April 16th, 2013. Jawed hails from Kabul, Afghanistan. You can read his original post on THINK Spot. Whenever I board a plane leaving Kabul, the first thought in my mind is that at least until I come back to this place, I won’t be as close to violence anymore. Yesterday...

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 "A night on the Big Mamie," 11th grade student Mark S. compares an earlier experience aboard the Russian cruiser Aurora with THINK Global School's recent excursion aboard the retired battleship USS Massachusetts. I WAS FOUR YEARS...

We recently posted an update about our time with Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi during our visit to Washington, D.C. Since posting our video of the talk, we have received positive responses regarding the subject material as well as a show of general support for Prince Pahlavi himself. One commenter asked that we further the conversation by providing the students' question and answer portion of the talk with Prince Pahlavi,...

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 "0000-0400: A New Year's Poem", 11th grader Pema T. emulates the tradition established by the United States Navy of writing a ship's first deck log of the New Year in a poetic fashion. 0000-0400: a New...

WHILST IN WASHINGTON, D.C., we had the opportunity to see “According to What?”, a large survey of Ai Weiwei’s work at the Hirshhorn Museum where Kruger’s “Belief + Doubt” was also installed. Seeing the work they had been studying first hand was a great experience for many of our art students and helped deepen their understanding of the artwork, as well as the creative process. As a culmination of the...

AS PART OF THEIR ART CLASS, Grade 9 and 10 students spent the first part of our term in Boston considering what the artist’s role in society is and how they or their work can incite change. This unit of work entitled “Power and Persuasion” was framed by the life and art of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, American artist Barbara Kruger’s text-based critique and commentary on consumer culture and the...

During each term, we invite a variety of guest speakers to engage with and lecture our students and faculty on a broad selection of topics central to our location's curriculum. In Buenos Aires, for example, students learned of Argentina's Dirty War horrors from those who experienced it firsthand. This term, while in Washington, D.C., we had the privilege to meet with and listen to Iran's Prince Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi was...

(Editor's Note: The following post coincides with our Fall 2012 Buenos Aires term, when we visited the Estancia La Candelaria to learn more about gaucho life past and present). In the Americas, few professions are romanticized quite like that of the cowboy. Images of rugged men dashing about on broncos have earned a place in both North and South American history, the hardships of their chosen lifestyle masked by the...