Jan 11, 2017
The Adventure Semester is a 14-week program for young people ages 13-15 who are excited to get out of their comfort zones, live abroad, become more independent, and create unforgettable memories with a dynamic group of peers and adult mentors. You’ll spend 6 weeks doing homestays and intensive Spanish language learning in Guatemala, 2 weeks […]
Jan 2, 2017
Travel tours are always expensive—but are Unschool Adventures programs more expensive than other options? A recent Sunday New York Times has a special section advertising teen group adventures: roughly $6000-$7000 for 2-3 weeks of travel, not including airfare: That’s $2000-$3500 per week. We’re proud to continue offering programs at an extremely competitive rate: $5000 for a 6- […]
Nov 27, 2016
Join Unschool Adventures for a 7-week adventure across four beautiful and safe countries in Southeast Asia—Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia—with our classic mix of group activities and self-directed free time. You’ll explore temples and bazaars, eat delicious and mysterious street food, meander down the Mekong river on a slow boat, blast through the streets on rickshaw-taxis, enjoy hikes […]
Nov 22, 2015
Today (*sniff) we had our final official challenges of the Adventure Semester. In the build-up to this Thursday we did not know what our last two days would have in store, until we started to receive emails. Each participant was told that they would have one partner, and were given varying degrees of information. Rather […]
Nov 22, 2015
For our last challenge of the Adventure Semester, Midge and I were challenged to… Wait. No. We didn’t know what our challenge was. Let’s start over. This morning, Blake told us to get into his car and then he blindfolded us. We drove for roughly 40 minutes, and finally got out, took off our blindfolds […]
Nov 22, 2015
Hi, I’m Spencer, and this is Jack O’News and today our challenge was to do a comedy routine and perform it in front of 4 groups of 20 people and have 1 person in the audience film it. This proved to be much more difficult then originally thought, and made me feel so uncreative, it […]
Nov 22, 2015
Today Oscar’s and my challenge was to set up a complaint table outside, then to have people write down their complaint. Later on, we were to make a creative writing piece about it and send it to them. However, it was clear from the beginning that each of us had complaints of our own. I felt […]
Nov 22, 2015
“With a budget of $200, makeover Dev’s look in a “business classy” fashion…aka cash money is king and make that man look fiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnneeee!” Lily and I made over Dev today from his normal farm life style into a classy business man. We spent over 3 hours in H&M working on finding clothes to fit him […]
Nov 22, 2015
Pop and I are the story nerds in this group of 21 kids. We spent our past individual self designed challenges working on some sort of writing. So it was no surprise that when we were given challenges according to our interests, we were tasked with meeting with someone who develops games for a living […]
Nov 22, 2015
Yesterday, I got an email from Blake. All it said was that Dave and I were going to be in a group together, and that we should meet him the following morning with a small list of items, namely, our instruments. Once we met up the next morning, Blake led us to his car without […]