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Day 1: Saturday, February 26

 

 From Alma to Boston!  

  It is finally Spring Break! For many Alma  College students, they are spending their weeklong vacation in sunny destinations such as Florida. But for a group of 7 Alma students and a Student Life staff member, we all decided to travel even deeper into the cold to work on a farm and learn about global hunger and rural sustainability.

This is our story.

 

  After spending one last night in our dorm rooms, we departed for Boston, Massachusetts by way of Canada at 8:30am. Our team had experienced some changes over the past few months and our 13+ hours van ride gave us plenty of time to get to know each other! We quickly had found common threads and spent the time talking and sleeping. After driving for what seemed like forever—and some of which was during a snow storm somewhere in New York—we finally arrived in Boston and checked into our rooms at 10:30pm. Eager to explore the new and vibrant city (a complete opposite of Alma!), we put on as many warm clothes as possible and ventured out into the cold city streets. Exhausted from the cold weather and the 800 some miles we had traveled, we all crashed in our beds in preparation for our busy day of exploration in Boston!

 

 

From top to bottom: We drove through a snowstorm somewhere in New York; we left Alma at 8:30am and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts at 10:30pm that night; one of our drivers, Jim Templin '06, making his way through Massachusetts.

Photos by Kate Bruder. 

 

Alma College students have the ability to design their own area of academic concentration, with the assistance of a faculty advisor, to meet specific educational or career goals. In recent years, students have graduated with Programs of Emphasis majors in such fields as arts management, archaeology and anthropology, environmental policy and community advocacy, Foreign Service and international law, and music technology and digital media.

 

Student Profile

Terra Teague

Terra Teague
Graduation: 2008
Major: Business Administration
From: Monroe
Interests: Business Simulations, Athletics

Terra’s Spring Term experience in China is a tremendous help understanding the relationship the U.S. has with one of its largest trading partners. The business administration major from Monroe has seen first hand the economic effects on southeast Michigan of low-cost imports and Chinese monetary policies.