Windsor Mountain Student Travel News

Friendship Camps Around the World

For the 43rd consecutive summer we’re taking Windsor Mountain values out into the wide wonderful world and using them as a vehicle to learn, discover, and build relationships across social, cultural, and economic boundaries. This summer our student travelers will dedicate their boundless time, energy, and enthusiasm to humanitarian efforts in the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Asia. The warm reception we receive from our friends in these locations year after year is proof positive that Windsor Mountain values travel well, and that the best way to do good in the world is to just get out there and do it!

Trip Highlights: Africa and China

Bridge Southern Africa 2010 - Our most popular international community service program gets better every year—this amazing itinerary includes Windsor Mountain Friendship Camps in Swaziland and Lesotho, grass-roots arts activism at the Umbuyisa School of Art in Soweto, hair-raising adventures with wild elephants in the Hlane Game Preserve, and to top it all off, awesome surf on the beaches of Durban. Seriously, though, what we’re really most proud of on this trip is the fact that we get to return to the Malealea Land Trust to finish a road project we’ve been working on with locals for four years now—to our amazement, every year this challenging physical task is a trip highlight for most of our kids!

 Bridge China 2010 delivers ambitious student travelers a month-long cultural odyssey across this vast and fascinating country: rural villages, historic landmarks, Imperial architecture, exotic markets, urban hustle—our students will experience it all, and come home with new friends, amazing stories, and a fresh perspective on life. Starting in Beijing with a week-long Chinese language intensive at Beijing Normal University, the group will move on to explore the ancient city of Xi’an (including the famous Terra-Cotta Warriors), run a Friendship Camp during a family homestay in the tiny village of Pengliu, and wrap things up with four exciting days in incredible city of Hong Kong.

Leadership Update

Our programs in the Caribbean, China, Peru, and South Africa all boast returning leaders—that gives us over two decades of travel leadership experience (three decades if you count Angus) for the 2010 season, and we haven’t even finished staffing yet. Any former trip leaders out there interested in leading New England Adventure this summer? Come join the veteran crew and see if you still have the magic! Sarah Foster, Thatcher Glode, Kate Berge, March and Amy Wang challenge you to help them top the Three-Dock Dinner. One more thing…shhhh…there’s even been rumors of Jim Whitmore and Nayeli Reyes returning to lead Peru, and James Evans has his iron in the fire for South Africa!

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