Category: Students

  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 ‘Wanderlust: an irresistible desire to travel,’ ninth grader Utkarsha V. recounts her month traveling across Costa Rica, learning valuable lessons and overcoming fears. ‘Wanderlust’ first appeared on Utkarsha V.s’ blog. I always think back to...

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...

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...

  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...

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 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...

When 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...

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 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...

10th 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...

While 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...