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This was recorded on Monday, September 19 by Ms. Walton.

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timer going to stop so let's just walk through a couple of specifics and then I will talk to you a little bit about the truck so please please please read your email if you get an email from myself or from Miss molinelli about enrichment week please read it it's going to have all of the details in there everything you need about applying or moving forward or dates are meetings at is the best way to stay up-to-date with what's going on I know sometimes even though we make an announcement to know when you ask your kids information they usually say I don't know where they didn't say it or whatever they so make sure you check your email if you have a specific question about the Italy trip you can contact me directly if you have a bigger question about the process of enrichment week or any of the most kind of details you can send an email to miss and I know you have her email address because everything is posted on the website and on the last email I sent this morning is a direct link to the enrichment week area on website itineraries Flyers application information there's an FAQ on their there's last year's catalog on their everything is on the website so please please please read the emails as well as go to the website I think you'll find must your questions can be answered but then then email me I spoke with the person who does these managers everything start that process now if you have a passport already check the expiration date the expiration date must be valid 6 months past our departure from Italy so it has to still be valid so check all of that stuff now to start working on that the next thing I really want to walk you through is just understanding where this program kind of evolved from where it lies at our mission so it's really rooted in lasallian values and Phyllis diet anyone on here I know there's a Virgil on here because anyone or any of our students know our five volumes of principles I know I have Clara on here I got shell a couple peep who's going to do it for me calling yes what are our principles calling have fun just woke up I don't know wrong person to Salton Sidney Smith look at them trying to act like they don't care and core principles come on you guys you know these things call in really respect for all I just got I just got it was Ayana respect for all that's one of them yes hello you guys are parents are on here concern for the form social justice beautiful okay well there's also inclusive community quality education you know those address 5 I'm going to need you to go back in. We should make out an application question but this program is really John got to save us all from all walks of life to be learning together and that's a big part of this like you might need someone who you didn't know before on this trip and create some really close by Spaceman princess, thank you I just got another stew okay I'll look these are wax message me instead of sharing them thank you you know it's really rude like this isn't a vacation listen to school station trip and we are learning and learning together and learning and community another thing that I really want to talk about us because of that like this is is the maturity of all of our children like to be in another country not taking America to Italy we're Americans visiting Italy in experiencing the culture of Italy while we're there so to try out a new food try a different things enjoy something different without sewol they don't make my favorite cheeseburger so I'm not going to eat so really about embracing the experience as far as the application process students will need to attend a meeting with Miss Mullen Ellie before getting the application so the applications will be handed out at the meeting and there will also be a student parent contract and she's going to be meeting with molinelli Will distribute the applications once students have attended meeting these meetings will be here now and emailed and there will be numerous opportunities to attend the meeting so that if there's a conflict a student can choose a different day they're going to be using priority numbers based on how many people apply particular tracks the most of the trip will take about 30 students with a 1210 student to adult ratio so depending on how many students apply if 80 students apply for particular and they start using the priority friend groups might not be traveling together it kind of all just depends and again the purpose of enrichment week is to grow and and meet other other folks Dwayne and myself treat your for the love you I know we took space there's a couple other people we treat your children like their RS I had one parents me last please don't lose my child and I was like I will not I promise we will bring your child back so we aren't looking out for them and part of that letting us know if there are any health and wellness issues so if there is a food allergy which we have a lot of that stuff already but just letting us know if there is an anxiety or depression or story sleepwalking which we had experience before anything that you think is going to help us make your child as comfortable as possible is really helpful at one time we had a student that had some issues with her leg but they didn't tell us when we got there she was having a hard time walking and we found out later but that's why there's three of us so that one of us could take a break with her or if we need to get something to help support so just let us know the more information that you can I'll ask the better as far as like packing these all that kind of stuff those are things that we can discuss once your child knows where they'll be going as far as the cost of this trip you seen the kind of estimate Mount between 4000 and 4,200 there is not financial assistance for these trips there's financial assistance for the emergent Riptide lasallian in there and their route as far as going to tile and and I believe the other end but we can help with setting up a little bit longer if needed let's see oh so the the application once they get it will be due by September 27th that is a hard deadline and so it needs to be turned in there is no deposit this you're with that but you will need to turn in the application once your student has been they have been selected for a trip or chosen they make that roster this sounds like a sports they make the bed top of the family and now the students like I don't know if I want to go to that trip anymore this student has until October 31st to change their mind and remove themselves from the roster so let me show you what's the time have I actually got this from where Miss Mullen Ellie was discussing can y'all see this had nine thank you doing so this is tentative itinerary right now is that will leave on March 3rd from San Francisco and go to fly into Venice will meet our representative so the company we work with TSA there is an on-the-ground person there who is our guide speaks the language and has arranged a lot of stuff that we don't have to worry about so they will meet us there and we will take private Water Taxis to our hotels the next day I'm in Venice we're going to be doing as you see here some of the bring up the Grinch the clock tower in a couple of other places the next day will be a travel day and I hope we were traveling in Spain or students were astonished by how nice they were so are we if you buy a car in Europe the rest stops are amazing and so we will then be traveling to Florence and we will be visiting a friend so and Academia Gallery worth of Michael Michelangelo's David the next they will be doing some more guided tours and then on Wednesday will head to Rome and do some of the Olympics stop in the Coliseum and then Pompeii and on our final day will head to the Vatican and we'll be seeing Sistine Chapel of Saint Peter's Basilica and in between there will be free time the students to to walk around and eat on their own and have free time yes a lot of the this document is on if you go to the st. Mary's College website and you look under academic programs and then you click on a Richmond week There's a link there and I think this molinelli said in the email that she sent there's a link to the weather okay all of those tentative itineraries aren't there so you can look at all of them the other thing before I forget how yes this is true hot off the press there is a small potential we might be able to see Allie in Italy Adrian so, do you know who took who we went to Spain with us during the Beloved teacher at St Mary's is now working at a high school in Rome and we may be able to hook up with him and possibly make some of his students and do some kind of exchange thing there are you a senior emailed me yesterday how he did okay yeah so, he's looking forward to introducing our students to his new suit wonderful and all we do is as you know we are owned by the Christian brother and they have a mother house at the Vatican so we have different officials to report to the Vatican through the brothers and they I've reached out to our brother visitor who is very excited to host the best to tour us and to take us for a meal so that's my quick fast and dirty of everything about 30 students and we just had a question about how many students are accepted around 30 between 24 and 30 yes it is a direct flight typically some this one sister act like sometimes we have had a change of who went to Spain we transferred in London so we usually there's a long haul for a Spite and then a shorter flight but we don't have the tickets yet student stay at hotel I'm getting a whole bunch of questions so I'm just answering them as they come in we stay at hotels very nice hotels Dwayne and I can say that are hotels in Portugal and Spain were wonderful and so we we stay at hotels while we're there how many hours is the flight good question are flights to our first flight to Spain was about as last time and then we had like a 2-hour flight so just depends I'm not sure because we don't have the routes yet do students have to pay for each of their meals so some of the breakfast and dinner are already accounted for in our in the price that you pay and then Austin time are on their own must have pretty much what we do and Lester Brothers do a lunch for us but typically it's it's the lunches are on their own find the airline we used last year was British Airways but some folks use Delta sometimes it's United usually ask me what are the fly on but other than that we we cuddle erupted CSA other questions when do we return March 11th that's the tentative Beach right now we will depart from Rome and head back to San Francisco if you're a senior do you get priority miss molinelli that is a question not necessarily last year we made a concerted effort to make sure that the seniors were able to go on the trips of their choices will seniors be able to travel absolutely but as long as they choose three trips they may not get their first choice and then I kept her second choice they might get their third but everybody actually last year all Juniors and seniors would have been able to travel there were probably 20 to 25 who only wanted to go to one place and said I'm not interested in any place else which is absolutely fine and then they chose another another course of more local course so will they will you get it most likely seniors we get there first choices but we're not going to guarantee that all seniors get their first choice so be flexible also and I think Miss Walton already mentioned this this is not a time where you go with your 10 best friends this is timer you really get a chance to get to know people very very differently and where you you wouldn't have the opportunity in another in any other space so I was just in the Thailand Zoom meeting and Misty follow mention that when she traveled she's now really good friends and stays in contact with the people that she traveled with during the week that she had not yet met in classes or anything so it's an opportunity to expand your horizon friends as well as the teachers so so do what you want and not with with your friends want go with what you want required as of now I don't if so there are some places where there's proof of vaccination it literally changed for us while we were in stayed around what we had to show so our recommendation right now is to make sure the students have their backs card on them actual card TSA keeps us updated with travel advisory so if it is required we will let everyone know we will also advise students to bring a covid test with them and we ate my husband and I will be bringing extra ones for by the school as well do students need to exchange money or pay by credit card typically when we've gone and sent our kids we do a little bit of both so we make sure that they have some euros for when they're first there or in the airport or ever and then they also have it either their debit card or some type of car that they can travel we had a student lose all her Euros last year and so the way that I helped that I guess that's why we're here helps her out and take care of her but having two methods is helpful I know we bank with Wells Fargo and we actually ordered are Euros just online and they sent them to the home as long as someone was there to to change the transport that's used between cities buses that are very very nice buses that a private buses that TSA has provided for us right now we don't have on our list to tour and University but I can miss bowling alley and I can talk about that  and talk to me how many students to a room typically 223 Miss Mullen LA and I make sure each child has a bed I'm very big on that was typically most of our kids were two we had like two rooms with three at the students have requested do students get picked up from campus know you drop off your child at the airport and pick them up there and Dwayne and I stay till the very last darling is picked up and we do like a parent we have a parent group chat and things so that we can and usually last time I did a Blog as well so that parents can stay up-to-date on everything so a typical amount for spending cash or debit what is really you want to have a conversation with your child so if you think about what the weather is going to be doing what do you think like the kids have their lunches or about 20 bucks a day probably yeah I think I maybe even on the little I side with what is snack in a watch a shot so you want to have that conversation with your child when our son went to Ghana we made him put in some of his own money about what he wanted to spend but at least if you think about like 20 euros a day at least her lunches and give him a little bit extra like that would be about a hundred Euros which definitely isn't enough for all so if they want to shop but that's a family decision last year they required a booster to exactly thank you what is a student test positive for covid-19 in the championship for the return flight so we had a plan last year Polly was going to stay behind which again is why we take more than just one person so well and obviously we would experience and we have a plan for that our rooms divided randomly and are by gender they are by gender and we asked the students once they see who's on the list who they would like to request I meant so we give them that opportunity to tell us who they would like to read with some students say I don't care just place was with somebody but we try to do the best I talked about the Euros in American dollars do I need another cell phone guidelines thank you for asking that so we currently have a son in early right now and what they required is for them to they actually had to get a phone there with a German SIM card because he's there till December but we also got a travel plan and internet don't plan on doing can you explain it cuz I never did you did it so are you sure so centrally and the plan we have is through a AT&T but you would set it up let him know no where they will be and then if they if they make a initial text or call then Bill they did we kill our son to use that phone for the entire day so you have 24 hours from the time that you making dinner Nicole to use it in the snow it's $10 so if you could have if your plan kind of your call times you know fine you can do that and also you in for emergency so if you're your student is not near a Wi-Fi or unable to make a call via Wi-Fi you know that's the nice alternative to have my five first whenever possible and so we usually get somewhere when we land join those I do the Nelson tell your parents are taking off tell them we landed like I'll try to send something as well but we always tell them soon as we get into the airport you can access Wi-Fi like you said when you're in the hotel here's the Wi-Fi let's see what we also talked to them about like this isn't the time to be on your cell phones all the time like you can take pictures or we want you in the culture and listening to the tour guide and so were we try to have the same distance and I thought we'd know that they want to take pictures but we also talked about what's a preacher post and what's not unforgivable in Ghana we had a dance party one night and I wouldn't let them post anything because some kids were embarrassed to dance in front of other folks so we won everyone to feel comfortable on the search chaperone I don't know yet it all depends on how many folks are here than just molinelli starts her draft and looks like to come with us as soon as we know we'll let you know will dinner be at restaurants or hotels are other just wondering how much authentic food will be available versus institutional there's a lot of authentic food on these trips. Something that TSA really plans for for example in Portugal we went to a photo show and how to follow meal especially in the lunches that they get a lot of time to to walk around and get some of the different types of food there's very sometimes we have dinner at a hotel and that's only because we're leaving early in the morning but typically they're like local restaurants very authentic my husband had all different types of paella when we were in Spain thinking about 4 so we will have opportunities to have a lot of great food and authentic food if they do that I'm going to tell the parents to come home and expect a very nice cooked meal from what your money has paid for any other questions I know some of you want to jump on a Saturn 30 probably so again if you have any specific questions about the trip feel free to contact me if you have overall questions try the website if you can't do that then contact smile and Ellie you are welcome this boy sending me thank you you're welcome and have a wonderful rest of your evening thank you you're welcome thank you it sounded like a little sister to prom

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