Sharbot Lake HS Plans Trip to Italy

Jeff Green | Nov 19, 2009

A preliminary meeting will be held on Tuesday Night, November 24th, at 6:30 to talk about a planned educational tour of sunny Italy in March of 2011.

Claudio Gerebizza, who is an educational travel ambassador with Education First Tours will be on hand to talk about the itinerary of the five city, ten day trip to Rome, Florence, Venice, Assisi and Piza.

Among the tours’ highlights will be St. Peters Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, the Trevi Fountain, the Ufizi Gallery, the Roman Coliseum and more.

The tour is being organised on the Sharbot Lake end by teachers Erica Kresen and Randy McVety, who have already been working out some of the logistics of the trip and planning fundraising events to defray some of the costs.

Students from the entire school, grade 7 to 12, are eligible for the trip, and adults are welcome to join as well.

In order for the trip to go ahead, about ten students from Sharbot Lake must attend, but students from other schools, and their parents, are eligible to go as well.

For Erica Kresen the fact that trip will includes students from grades 7-12 will be a great opportunity for students that don’t always interact at the school to experience something together and bring that camaraderie back to the school.

The trip represents her first opportunity to levve the continent and travel with her 12 year old daughter, who is a student in Sydenham.

“We’re already starting to save up,” she said.

Randy Mcvety was part of a school rip to Costa Rica a few years’ ago, and he found it to be an excellent experience for he students.

“The company that runs the trips keeps the students busy from morning until night. The days are packed with visits and learning opportunities. I can’t say enough about Education First.

Matt Green, now a grade 12 student, is the only student still at SLHS that participated in the Costs Rica trip.

He still lights up at the mention of it.

“It’s hard to remember all the things we did” he said, “because there was so much, but seeing a real volcano was certainly a highlight. All ina ll it was the experience of a lifetime.”

The Italian trip will feature more human history than natural history, and the artwork and architecture that the students will see is unrivalled anywhere else in the world.

Education First is offering some incentives for people to enrol in the trip by the end of November, and there are payment plans available as well.

At the meeting on November 24th, Caludio Grebizza will have all the details.

For further information about the Italy trip, contact Erica Kresen or Randy Mcvety at Sharbot Lake High School, 613-279-2131