Recently, the Berkshire Waldorf high school students returned from their biennial trip abroad. All the students travel at least once during their high school years, to Munich if they study German, and to a Spanish-speaking country if they study Spanish. This year the German language students attended a Waldorf school in Munich and also visited Berlin and Dresden. The Spanish language students traveled to Argentina to assist in construction work at a Camphill community there.
German language students in Berlin, Dresden, and Munich:
Spanish language students assist in construction work at a Camphill community in Argentina:
“These trips encourage real, practical foreign language learning,” says Stephen Sagarin, Faculty Chair. “Our slogan is, ‘Small School, Big World,’ and travel every other year broadens our students’ experience of the world we all share. There is no substitute for working and learning side-by-side with those who speak different languages and live in different cultures.”
German and Spanish language trips are financed by student fundraising as well as grants from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and the German government. The foreign student visiting program has flourished at the Berkshire Waldorf High School, with German students from Waldorf schools spending time with here, and continued biennial trips to Munich and Peru, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, and now Argentina.
