Polk students head overseas
PHOTO BY MARY CANNADAY
Students from Bartow Senior High's IB school and Winter Haven High School are going on a student exchange trip to the Netherlands and France during Spring break. (R-L) back row: Jeremy Mooney, Terrance Commons, Hunter Ryan, Aaron Presnell, James Harmer and Ethan Eichar. (R-L) front row: Gabriella Liwanag, Gabrielle DiLullo, Mathew Hewett, Nicole Radivilov and Courtney Floyd. Not pictured: Rachel Glogower and Kimmy McMillan.
Thirteen students from Polk County will embark next week on the adventure of a lifetime, visiting the Netherlands and Paris, France and staying with the families of students who came here from Oisterwijk, the Netherlands, in October.
According to one of the chaperones, Bartow High School history teacher Ted Wright, the group will visit the Van Gogh museum and Ann Frank’s house, as well as making day trips to windmills and wooden shoe (clog) factories. They will also visit The Hague, a town dedicated to international peace and justice going back to the first Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907.
