Teacher Summers: stonehenge

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Frolleagues Forever

A teacher I once taught with referred to us as "frolleagues," a combination of friends and colleagues. It is the perfect description of the teachers on this trip. While it has been amazing to visit the sights, art, and shows of London, the real joy has been hanging with these goofballs outside of school walls.*

We have posed together: genuinely, obnoxiously, and accidentally.

We have selfied ourselves and each other. Some of us like to smile and some don't.*

We have been in shock and awe.

We have imitated art together.***

And most importantly, we have ended the trip with the same number of students we started with.****

May you all get the chance to travel with your favorite frolleagues***** one day!

*Full disclosure: there are a lot of pictures here and I didn’t edit any out and Laura would have wanted more in because we all look so great.

**Gary.

***Laura rightfully takes the cake on this one.
****Not pictured for teacher reasons.

*****We miss you, Katie!

Friday, June 2, 2017

London Calling

#teachersummer2017 has started off with the real deal. I am traveling with a group of students and teachers from school to London for a week. At the end of the week they will return home and I will travel on. We have crammed as much culture as possible into the past few days.

The adventures of group travel with high school students have included but are not limited to:

Walking long distances at an alarmingly slow pace
Seeing students experience one or all of the following: their first trip out of the US, big city livin', meals they did not anticipate
Making sure everyone gets on and off the tube at the right stop*

Sometimes this has made us feel like this:

But mostly we have felt like this:

I won't recount everything we've done since that would be a laundry list of London sights and museums. Highlights have included Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, the Jane Austen Museum in Bath, ice cream in theaters***, and so much art.