Overseas Adventures...

To kick off summer term at Canvas, our Spring exchange students planned and executed the first ever Canvas prom on May 2nd. The theme of the prom was "Charity Shop Charity Prom," meaning dress code for prom was something you picked up from the local charity shop and the proceeds of the night went to the Canvas trip to Mexico. Prom was held at a community center/church in Bournville called Rowheath Pavillion. The venue was perfect and there was even a disco ball! As you can imagine, the outfits ranged from normal to completely ridiculous. (Mike's outfit was picked out by an exchange student, Scott, and was one of the more ridiculous outfits to be seen.) It was a night full of fun, dancing, and laughter! Here are few photos:

Spring term exchange students: (Fanye, Brooks, Emily, Scott, Katie)

Ian, Matt, Mike, Stefan (Please note Mike's outfit)

Jade, Alli, Elise, Ellen

Group photo!

During the April break, we took a few vacation days to visit friends and travel in southern Germany. Here is the condensed version of our trip! We flew to Stuttgart and spent a few days with Stef and Chris Coleman in Tubingen. We got to see Unterwegs, the Globalscope location in Germany that they work at, and the town they live in. Tubingen is an adorable university town and we really enjoyed our visit. We spent Easter weekend at the Coleman's apartment and enjoyed an Easter service in German. :) The four of us took a day trip to the Black Forest to go hiking. The weather was beautiful and the scenery couldn't have been better. We took a day trip to Lake Constance, or Bodensee, a large lake in Europe bordered by Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. We visited a couple of towns along the lake and even took a ferry boat ride.

We left Tubingen and spent a few days in Munich. Munich is such a cool city and we had incredible weather while we were there. We saw almost all that there is to see in Munich as far as tourist attractions go, including a day spent at Dachau concentration camp memorial site. That was a powerful experience that we would absolutely recommend. We even managed to take every form of transportation in the city, bus, train, tram, tube, and lots of walking. And we ate as much gelato and pastries as we could!

Then we spent a few days in Frankfurt visiting Justin and Marisa Jackson. You can find out more about their cool story on their blog. The Jacksons were great hosts and showed us all around Frankfurt. We ate an amazing schnitzel at their local neighborhood restaurant. The food in Germany is incredible! We saw all of the city and also got to spend some QT catching up and hanging out with good friends. It was the perfect end to an awesome trip!

We flew back to England just before the Iceland volcano erupted and were very thankful that we did not get stuck on the continent like some of our other team members did. (Stranded in Italy!) We had a week and a half to get prepared for the summer term at Canvas. We really enjoyed our time spent in Germany and hope to go back one day! Here are a few photos from the trip. For more photos, check out my facebook page.