As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
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I’ve always linked traveling to family rather than friends or people my age. Or if it were traveling with people my age, it would be just friends from home. The Amazing Race put me with three other people whom I would have never thought I’d have the chance to travel with, and it was just plain amazing! It honestly did not feel like real life. Those four days were one of the happiest days I’ve had in a very long time, and the happiness it started still lasts until now.
– Charis S, Class of 2014
Everything about this experience, from having to pack the night before the trip to backpacking up a mountain with my team…This is what TGS really is.
– Yada P, Class of 2014