As I've previously mentioned, Rachel has been invited to be a Student Ambassador with the People to People Ambassador Program. She will be participating in the European Odyssey, which will take her to France, Italy and Greece, and includes a homestay in France.The group that Rachel will be traveling with is based out of Grand Junction and one of the requirements of the program is attendance at monthly meetings in Grand Junction. Due to our aforementioned misadventure, we missed the first meeting so Sunday was our first meeting.
I must say that I'm pretty impressed. It really is educational tourism. The kids have assignments which basically force them to learn about the areas that they'll be visiting. The meetings include activities to help the kids get to know each other before they travel and activities to help prepare the kids for travel and give them an idea as to what to expect. (Rachel has to bring a packed suitcase to the next meeting.) The leaders clearly put a lot of time into putting this all together.
There are kids in Rachel's group who have already traveled with P2P and are going again which, as far as I'm concerned, is a good recommendation.
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It's great that they're so organized and are ensuring that the students go with some background knowledge so that they get a lot out of what they see and do.
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