READ STUDENTS’ JOURNALS FROM TRIP TO PERU

In February, four students and TNS Teacher Marylyn Wentworth spent over two weeks in Peru during a recent Intensive. (They had spent the first semester learning about Peru's history and culture, and planning the trip.) The group was based in the city of Cusco, which was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th-century. Each morning the students were immersed in learning Spanish at a Spanish language school; during the afternoons they assisted with the school's after school program for children living in poverty. And of course they visited Machu Picchu and other amazing sites [...]