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...
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When I was six, seven, and eight, there were always two men or women dressed in medieval costumes selling roasted almonds in a wooden wagon on the main square of Tallinn. Nothing was better on dark and freezing winter days than these warm and crispy treats, and I think it is fair to classify them as the best roasted almonds of my life. To this day, I still can’t...
Read MoreWhile 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 his essay "What longboarding for 50 kilometers feels like," 12th grader Isaac F. reflects on his recent initiative to help raise money for prostate research by longboarding 50 kilometers (31 miles) around Auckland, New Zealand. Isaac's...
Read MoreWhen the 11th grade Anthropology class of THINK Global School began their unit on Marriage and Sexuality, teacher Nick Martino called for a creative output product. Four weeks later, a twenty minute long Bachelor spoof had been planned, shot, edited and privately showed to the TGS community. It is now released to the public, serving as a simultaneously entertaining and informative anthropological video. In order to preserve the humorous nature...
Read MoreWhile 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 her reflection piece "What Indiana Jones taught me about hats and home," 11th grader River W. opens up on her definition of home, and why those in a perpetual state of travel might find it to...
Read More10th grader Danielle R. had the following to say about her reflection "Suitcases and shutters," which was written during her time exploring New Zealand's North Island: "I wrote the following while on a trip to the geothermal wonderland of Rotorua with the "Fellowsheep" (Editor's Note: fellow students and staff members who Danielle was traveling with). I noticed how many pictures we were all taking of something that was not particularly...
Read MoreWhile enrolled at THINK Global School, students are encouraged to be creative during the course of their studies and travels. In her poem "Nature and its marvels," 9th grader Utkarsha V. recounts her adventures traveling throughout New Zealand's North Island. Nature and its marvels I gaze up at the sky full of stars, And remember my loved ones afar. It’s said that stars indicate your past, And I look at...
Read MoreWhile 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 her reflection "Shadows engulfing the mundane," 10th grader Danielle R. uses examples from her travels to help explain why a great back story can make a seemingly mundane activity seem exhilarating. New experiences sell. It...
Read MoreWhile 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 an assignment for Nick Martino's IB social and cultural anthropology class, 11th grader River W. opens up about her own experiences with culture shock, and why it is best to be a traveler, not a tourist,...
Read MoreTo begin the 2014-15 school year, IB mathematics teacher Guillermo Machado asked his 11th grade students to consider THINK Global School’s seven values and how they relate to math. He then asked them to answer the following two questions: How do they help us as mathematics learners? How can mathematics help us with the development and practice of these values? One of his students, Fatima, went above and beyond, mixing...
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