Five Mercersburg students and faculty member Will Willis are in Chile participating in a Spanish language immersion experience with the Academy's sister school, Colegio Alemán de San Felipe.

As part of a new annual exchange program, the group is staying with host families and began classes at the school August 1. The group will return to Mercersburg later this month, in time for the beginning of

Nine Mercersburg students and two teachers jumped the pond for an often vigorous, frequently instructive, and always-social three weeks in Germany and Austria: the group visited Salzburg, Munich, Worms, Koblenz (via a Lorelei cruise on the Rhine), and Heidelberg.

Here’s a full recap from faculty trip leaders Jim Applebaum and Peter Kempe:

Trips to foreign lands, as any Gulliver will tell you, are in