Braving Bavaria

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Blog[vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/students/alumni/share-your-story/” size=”medium” align=”center” border_radius=”10px”]Share Your Story[/vcex_button][vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/blog/” layout=”block” size=”medium” icon_left=”fa fa-angle-left” border_radius=”10px”]Blog[/vcex_button][vcex_heading source=”post_title” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ inner_bottom_border_color_main=”#04577e” color=”#04577e”][vcex_icon_box heading=”” icon=”fa fa-user” icon_color=”#04577e”]Written by: Hayley Abbott[/vcex_icon_box] With a new passport and a tightly packed suitcase, I boarded the plane to Munich with my stomach in knots. I didn’t know what to expect in a new country,…

Willkommen (Welcome)

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Blog[vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/students/alumni/share-your-story/” size=”medium” align=”center” custom_color=”#ffffff” border_radius=”10px”]Share Your Story[/vcex_button][vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/blog/ ” size=”medium” icon_left=”fa fa-angle-left”]Blog[/vcex_button][vcex_heading source=”post_title” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ inner_bottom_border_color_main=”#04577e” color=”#04577e”][vcex_icon_box heading=”” icon=”fa fa-user” icon_color=”#04577e”]Written by: Alexa Turner[/vcex_icon_box] After completing a ten-week summer internship in Washington, D. C., I’d like to think that I can go anywhere and not look like a tourist. I thought wrong. The day after…

Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Sets You Free)

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Blog[vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/students/alumni/share-your-story/” size=”medium” align=”center” custom_color=”#ffffff” border_radius=”10px”]Share Your Story[/vcex_button][vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/blog/ ” size=”medium” icon_left=”fa fa-angle-left”]Blog[/vcex_button][vcex_heading source=”post_title” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ inner_bottom_border_color_main=”#04577e” color=”#04577e”][vcex_icon_box heading=”” icon=”fa fa-user” icon_color=”#04577e”]Written by: Alexa Turner[/vcex_icon_box] History. By way of it, we study the triumphs, failures, greatness, and destructiveness that the human race has accomplished. In every place I have visited, I have seen the remnants…

A Full Day

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Blog[vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/students/alumni/share-your-story/” size=”medium” align=”center” custom_color=”#ffffff” border_radius=”10px”]Share Your Story[/vcex_button][vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/blog/” size=”medium” icon_left=”fa fa-angle-left”]Blog[/vcex_button][vcex_heading source=”post_title” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ inner_bottom_border_color_main=”#04577e” color=”#04577e”][vcex_icon_box heading=”” icon=”fa fa-user” icon_color=”#04577e”]Written by: Brooke Estep[/vcex_icon_box] On our second day in Munich, we visited both sides of the emotional spectrum. We visited the Munich Residenz, the palace that housed the German Royal Family for over 700 years.…

Mexico City

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Mexico City Students visiting Mexico City (multi-day excursion) experience one of the world’s largest cities with a history dating back to 1325. The historic centre, the Zocalo, where once stood the pyramids and palaces of Moctezuma, now paves the way to the National Palace. Outside of the city, Teotihuacan, City of the Gods, stands as…

Belize

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Belize Students visiting Belize (multi-day excursion) experience a culturally diverse and mixed race country with one foot in Latin America and the other in the Caribbean. There is the creole/(Afro-European mixture) population as well as the native Maya people. Attractions include exploring the lush jungles with exotic plants and animals, swimming and snorkeling in the…

München at the Market

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Blog[vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/students/alumni/share-your-story/” size=”medium” align=”center” border_radius=”10px”]Share Your Story[/vcex_button][vcex_button url=”https://www.kiis.org/blog/ ” layout=”block” size=”medium” icon_left=”fa fa-angle-left” border_radius=”10px”]Blog[/vcex_button][vcex_heading source=”post_title” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ inner_bottom_border_color_main=”#04577e” color=”#04577e”][vcex_icon_box heading=”” icon=”fa fa-user” icon_color=”#04577e”]Written by: Brooke Estep[/vcex_icon_box] When we arrived in Munich, the first thing to catch my eye was the Victualienmarkt, also known as “the food market.” This collection of green-roofed wooden stalls, covered with…

Architecture of Antoni Gaudi: Sagrada Familia, Palau Güell, and the Park Güell

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Architecture of Antoni Gaudi: Sagrada Familia, Palau Güell, and the Park Güell The works of Modernist architect Antoni Gaudi mark the city and transformed the development of architecture in the region. The Güell family patronized Gaudi and gave his imagination free reign at their personal and professional sites.  We will visit two of these, marking…