SPRING IS THE TIME FOR PROMS

Khatia and Yuhang




Miko and George

Miko (right) and friends

Alberto and Oak with their dates

Sebastian and his date

Oak (left) and Alberto

Yehia and Lea

FUN-FILLED WEEKEND IN ATLANTA

The last weekend in March we joined CIEE students, local coordinators and host families from all over the southeast in Atlanta for an action packed weekend of fun.  Friday night we enjoyed dinner at the downtown Atlanta Hard Rock Café.  Saturday we toured CNN World Headquarters, the World of Coca Cola and Stone Mountain.  At Stone Mountain we rode an aerial tram to the top and watched a laser show projected against the side of the granite mountain after dark.  Then we spent the entire day on Sunday at Six Flags Over Georgia.  There were over 70 of us altogether and we had a great time.



Waiting for our table at Hard Rock Café



Can you find the Alabama students?

We pose for a picture at a CNN news desk

Alabama students and Mimi from Nigeria (second from right) at CNN

 

Alabama students in downtown Atlanta

Waiting for the laser show at Stone Mountain

Students at Six Flags

Students at Six Flags

BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR

On March 7, we traveled to Birmingham, one of the main hubs of activity during the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, for a day long activity focusing on the movement and its dramatic impact on the United States, particularly the South.  We were joined by students and their local coordinator from the Montgomery area, as well as Alix Kreder from the CIEE national office who was in Alabama on a site visit. The day included a program at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, site of a KKK bombing in 1963 in which four little girls were killed, the Civil Rights Institute, a museum focusing on the movement in Alabama, and a memorial park located in the heart of the historically black neighborhood where locals and nationally known figures like Martin Luther King planned marches, sit-ins and other activities for the movement. The day concluded when we went to see Selma, a recently released feature film chronicling Bloody Sunday and the voter rights marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

Alix (top left) and the students in front of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Students in from of Civil Rights Institute

Special exhibit at the Institute

Student enjoy lunch with Alix, top right


Scene from Selma (1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery)