Daily Archives: October 29, 2015


Traveling Abroad Revisited – Good for Life, Good for College Admissions

All my CPE students seem to be talking and writing lately about foreign travel in one form or another. From school-sponsored exchange programs to trips with school bands performing on stage or with churches performing community services to family safaris and other individual summer adventures, something’s in the air. Thought it was a propitious time to dust off a piece I wrote almost three years ago to the date (and by dust off I mean change the parts I don’t like): It would be no exaggeration to say that my trip to France in the summer of 1980 changed my life. As a typical angst-ridden […]