Crocus Plains students off to Portugal
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This article was published 22/03/2019 (2605 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A group of Brandon high school students will join the rush of travellers at the Winnipeg airport today.
Twenty-five Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School students are boarding a plane to Portugal, ready to tour historic buildings and absorb the culture.
It still feels like it’s too good to be true, said Kimi Allan, one of the students going on the trip.
“I don’t think it will be quite real for me yet,” Allan said. “Packing is pretty cool and exciting, but once I’m in Winnipeg getting onto the plane, that’s when it’s going to be like, ‘Yesss.’”
As a design drafting student at the school, Cayden Brown said he was looking forward to seeing the architecture.
“It will be an eye-opening experience,” Brown said. “Just from the valleys of Brandon to Portugal, and seeing how all the hillside and the communities how all the beaches are laid out and how they worked around all their natural landscape. Here we have hills, and over there they have to work around mountains.”
They will make various stops around Portugal, heading from Porto, and working their way down to the Lisbon area in the south.
The school has been doing European tours for nine years now, Crocus Plains design drafting instructor Tara Hamilton said, adding that the trip changes the way her students view the world.
“When these guys leave here, I usually find that they feel like a big fish in a small pond,” Hamilton said. “Then when they get there, they actually get to see how broad the world actually is.”
The 10-day trip will give students a chance to experience the food and the architecture in a different country.
“We always arrange it so they’re trying local cuisine and trying to view their culture and be a part of their culture as much as they can,” Hamilton said. “There’s so much we can get out of this, and Canada being such a young country really, we get to see architecture that’s older then the foundation of our own country.”
Grade 12 student Benjamin Bower had such a good time when he went on a trip with the school to Italy two years ago that he saved during his summer job so he could come on another trip this year.
“We had all these stories that we came back (with last time), it was something special,” Bower said.
Students pay for their own way there, whether it’s a combination of fundraising or working, or a little of both.
When they have their next trip, Bower will have already graduated, but he said that other high school students should take the opportunity to go along.
“If you get the chance to go on it, you definitely should take it.”
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