Travel with ISP

By: Darby Graff

Most kids get the opportunity to go on trips with their schools and most would say that it is an enlightening experience that helped them gain insight on respective places and even more insight on their peers. This statement can be true whether you've driven a couple of hours or traveled thousands of miles around the world. As beautiful as these trips are and typically captured, I was driven to give a more accurate look into this years’ International Scholars Programs trip to Peru. 

First day in Lima and I caught one of the students,  Porter Mccuistian, trying to catch up on mandatory reading (that we were supposed to read before the trip took place) on our walking tour.

I caught Hendrick DuBois trying to cram in notes for an upcoming AP project. He is trying to use the small circular lid of his water bottle as support for his notepad- shortly after this he gave up and used his hand.

On our very first travel day from Lima to Cusco the only thing people could talk about was the Mr. and Mrs. JHS nominees- here is everybody checking their emails to find out if they have made it to the next round.

Here is a shot of me on the same travel day while I work on my AP econ reading. I love this class but it's sucking the life out of me.

In the middle of Mr. Engle and Mrs. Taylor you will see Mrs. Taylor's husband, Alan. Alan worked almost the entirety of the trip and used every minute of our downtime to his advantage.

This was one of our last days and there was not much else to be said.  A shot of a quiet breakfast with Hendrick Dubois and Nick Sweet accurately sum up the tiring past couple of days followed by an extremely hectic day.

I think what I learned the most from being thousands of miles away is that life- your life, the one you lead every day- never really leaves you. No matter where you are, you are still going to face the same challenges that you would have faced back home. Traveling doesn’t erase problems, it honestly just creates new ones. 

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