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  • Viet Cong Cu Chi Tunnles

    ONE TRIP VIETNAM-Does a great trip to the Cu Chi tunnels on motorbike with stops along the way.  The Cu Chi Tunnels are what the Viet Cong used to annihilate the Americans.  After being in this area for a couple hours crawling thru tunnels and looking at the traps they would hide, it is a…

  • Vietnam

    Communist?Socialist?Capitalist?  It really does not matter because this country is beautiful, friendly and cheap!!! Well from being here for an extended amount of time, one thing is certain and that is this place is one of the most friendliest countries I have ever been too in my life. Long forgotten are the days of the…

  • Why would anyone take a break from work to spend 14 months traveling?

    As I am sitting here in KUL to meet up with my cousins, Zach, Kelly, and David, I thought I would write a quick blurb of why I am taking a year plus off from work…..my answer….why wouldnt anybody if they had the time and money? “Why are you taking a year off to travel…

  • Nada

    Instances of Euphoria: Italy As humans, we choose to expose and unbury exquisite happenings and moments of frozen beauty in time. We choose to call to mind certain memories from our spans of life, from our instances of euphoria and jubilation in order to confront the distressing and harrowing truth about the pains of life.…

  • Italy with Students

    Italia!!!! Can I handle another school trip with students? Yes of course I can, although I am at times about to lose my mind, it is always an adventure as there is so many possibilities of what can happen…. However as I have grown tired of writing about my time with students on school trips,…

  • Magy

    The week when I ate enough pasta to last me a lifetime This might just be the hardest assignment we’ve been given because I honestly cannot find the words to describe how absolutely wonderful this trip was. I had the time of my life. I made new friends and became closer with others. I had…

  • DK

    Reflective time in Italy During the Italy trip, I really liked the tours and the hotels and it is my second favorite school trip. The tour was sometimes hot because of the weather and how the museums were packed with people making it more hotter, other then that it was amazing because I got to…

  • Catherine

     Scuzi, Italy Coming through From my point of view, the Italy trip was without a doubt the best trip I had ever been on. It wasn’t just one of those trips that you’ll forget but rather something that will really stay with you. Not only did we visit some of the most beautiful sights in…

  • Mo El F

     The Trip to Paradise In my opinion this was currently the best trip I have ever attended. Even though with the ups and downs,Italy left smiles in our faces for us to Remember for the rest of our lives. In this essay, I’ll name the negatives and positives we had in this trip. To me,…

  • Florence Gypsies

    Florence’s Gypsies long skirts and wandering eyes chasing after it prey likes flies a cup In hand and a planned procedure Kisses in exchange for money funny how far they’d go for a euro or two you got no clue whether it’s all an act of greed or a need to feed their families your…

  • Malak

    5 Cities, 7 Days That feeling in the pit of you’re stomach when you’re up among those clouds is something I will never get used to. The butterflies swimming and the constant flow of adrenaline in you’re body is what I crave, and that’s exactly what I got while in Italy. The flight experience can…

  • Hana B

    Fun Times and Beautiful Scenery-Capri How would you feel flying across one of the most beautiful islands in the world? Day 7, which was the day we visited Capri was the day I most enjoyed. The island is split into two parts Capri and Anacapri. Ana means “above” and Anacapri is above Capri, that’s how…

  • Hana EM

     Eight Days’ Bliss In my few but arguably experience-rich years, there are scarce times I have been as excited as I was on December 25th, 2014. My teachers and classmates had been planning the annual 8th grade school trip to Italy for months and my parents, much to my despair, had informed me that I…

  • Nabil

     50 Students. 5 teachers, 7 days, 5 cities, WE DID IT! Our Greece trip was great. The teachers treated us in a really good way, since we respected them (most of the time). The hotel was great, the sites we visited were great, and everything together was just great. I myself said it was going…

  • Amina

    Authenticity of Italy:  5 Cities in 8 Days Ever since the trip to Greece, also planned by Mr. Yenshaw, ended last year, the Italy trip has been the main topic of almost everyone’s conversations. The excitement and desire to embark on the week-long trip that goes from the northern, popular areas of Italy down to…

  • Heidi

     When in Rome…and other Italian cities… The AISE 8th grade students took an 8 day trip to Italy from May 1st to 8th. It was AMAZING! I really liked this trip a lot. It was fun and I got to see a lot of neat monuments as well as the Vatican Museum and the famous…

  • Reflection of Trip by 8th various 8th Grade Students

    Reflective Time in Italy-The Good and the Bad!!!!!  By Students To protect the students identities, I have only put their first name Nabil- 50 Students. 5 teachers, 7 days, 5 cities, WE DID IT! Rita- Bravissimo Magy- The week when I ate enough pasta to last me a lifetime Serag- Good and Bad times at…

  • Sara

    School Trip In A Nutshell: Italy edition This year, our chosen school trip was to Italy. It was a chance for all the students to see a lot of the things that we have been learning in class throughout the year. The trip was 8 days total including both of out travel days. As far…

  • Serag

    Good and Bad times at Italian Hotels Since the beginning of the second term in November, so many of the AIS students were looking forward to the Italy trip since the Greece trip before it was a major success. For quite some time, there were some worries about getting the fees in on time and…

  • Karim

    The Trip of a Lifetime The trip was very entertaining and informative. I learned a lot of thing in this trip and went to a lot places I have dreamt to go to. We went to a lot of beautiful places that was worth going, but we also went to places that were pretty much…