Road to Morocco with Roosevelt Island's Child School/Legacy High School - Send Best to Hope and Crosby

You Tube video of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby on the Road to Morocco

Following in the illustrious footsteps of those intrepid explorers Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, the adventurers/students from the Roosevelt Island Child School/Legacy High School are on the Road to Morocco. They kindly sent this report so that the Roosevelt Island community could share in their experience.

Students from The Child School/Legacy High School are in Morocco for our yearly Spring Trip. We thought you might enjoy reading about their adventures.

The Spring Trip is an opportunity for our students to travel overseas and learn the culture, geography, and history of another country firsthand. The goals of the program are to foster socialization, develop independence, responsibility and teamwork. In addition to the adventure of traveling to another country, our Spring Trip encourages the development of personal traits such as integrity, honesty, empathy, decisiveness and, most of all, caring. Accompanying the “trippers” are faculty members who utilize this opportunity to:

• Develop greater insight into a child’s emotional and social issues
• Receive a better understanding of parent’s needs within the home

This year one student, of the 35 traveling, received a Scholarship created from our newly established Earl Spirit Fund. Every year for 25 years, a scholarship will be awarded, in Earl’s memory, to help a child in need. www.thechildschool.org/page.cfm?p=59

While students are in Morocco, they are being exposed to Islamic culture, souks (marketplaces), spices such as saffron, hand-woven kilims and carpets, couscous, tangine (stew), Mosques, camels, and as always, pools and beaches.

Image of Agadir Morocco

Image of Agadir Morocco market

All images are from the Child School/Legacy High School.