The WWII Course reports:
Since Saturday we have been in Prague. The pictures below show the Astronomical Clock and St. Vitus Cathedral in the Prague Castle (Photo 1 & 2). On Sunday we toured the site of Lidice, a Czech town razed to the ground by the Nazis in revenge for the assassination of the German commander Reinhard Heydrich. All 192 men in the village were shot and all the women and children were sent to concentration camps, where 52 women died by torture and 88 of 105 children were gassed. We met with Mrs. Miloslava Kalibova (Photo 3), who was 19 when she was sent to the concentration camp and was one of the few who survived. On the site is a memorial consisting of life-sized statues of the 105 children (Photo 4).

On Monday, we toured Josefov, the former Jewish quarter of Prague. We visited the Jewish Cemetery which was used from the 14th to the 18th centuries (Photo 5), and then met with Pavel Stransky, a Holocaust survivor of the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps (Photo 6).








The Costa Rica Course reports:
We are in Arenal on a mountain top tonight before heading back to San Jose tomorrow. All is well after a wonderful visit to Monteverde. We had great weather there and were able to see Arenal Volcano entirely today, quite a rare treat. All students are doing fine and the group is doing well collectively.

The Guam Course reports:
Hafa Adai from Guam!
We toured Saipan this weekend and saw several points of WWII history, including two war museums, Suicide Cliff, Bonzai Cliff, and several bunkers. We also toured the beautiful grotto, saw some sunken tanks and planes just offshore of our resort, and our tour was concluded with a star-studded performance at the Hard Rock Cafe Saipan.
This week our work with Catholic Social Services includes visits to several centers around the island. Tonight we're going to the opening day of Guam Major League Baseball and then we're off to the Chamorro Village Market tomorrow night. This weekend we'll take a dolphin watch snorkeling tour and go on a jungle hike, otherwise known as a boonie stomp!






The Ireland Course reports:
Here are our students at Kylemore Abbey situated in the Connemara Mountains in Western Ireland and at Glencar Lough and waterfalls in Yeats' country, Sligo. We're off to Derry in Northern Ireland in the morning.




The Brazil Course reports:
On Monday the Brazil class had their third and final Capoeira lesson. I hear some of them plan to bring Capoeira back to Elon. Here’s a group shot with our master instructor.

We also finished our service project with Laborearte by decorating the gazebo at the assisted living facility for Carnival and having a party…as you can see from the pictures.
A local TV station came to do a story on our project, too!