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We are proud to offer a number of cultural learning experiences during the summer of 2025. Please contact the lead chaperone for more information about each experience.
For information about the 2024 trips, please click here
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Wildlife, Culture, and Service in Rwanda
Lead Chaperone: Brian Borchardt
June 2025
This will be Mr. Borchardt’s 9th international trip with students. His passion is travel with a purpose. With service and culture as a central focus, this trip will allow students to immerse themselves in the Rwandan culture and work alongside the local communities to help them complete important projects.
Discover a beautifully biodiverse country focused on reconciliation and education. In Kigali, learn about the Rwandan Civil War and genocide against the Tutsi. Then, spend time getting to know locals in the small village of Giperefe and assisting them in service-driven projects focused on community development and protecting tradition. As communities evolve, so do their needs. That’s why we will work closely with local nonprofits to better understand each community’s issues and then focus projects on creating solutions. Round out your tour by looking for lions, elephants, and giraffes (oh my!) on game drives through Akagera National Park.
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Legendary England
Chaperones: Mrs. Lammers and Ms. Hager
June 2025
This is Mrs. Lammers’ and Ms. Hager’s first time collaborating on an international trip. We are both English teachers and are looking forward to heading to England to scratch the surface of the literary history present in this small island nation. In the past, Mrs. Lammers has had travel experiences to Ghana, Spain, and Portugal. Ms Hager has traveled to Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and France. Ms. Hager will also go to Iceland with Mr. Babbitts in the summer of 2024.
Robin Hood. William Shakespeare. The Beatles. During this tour, discover the famous figures and picturesque landscapes that make this England so epic. Explore the Bard’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, create your own art in muralist Banksy’s hometown of Bristol, and tour Nottingham with Robin Hood as your guide. And of course, London!
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Journey Down Under
Lead Chaperones: Deb Gauthier & Chris Rundquist
July 2025
Join us in July of 2025 as we travel down under to tour Australia and New Zealand. We begin the tour by flying across the international date line and landing in Auckland, New Zealand. We will spend 3 days in Rotorua visiting a geothermal area, taking an amphibious duck boat ride, and riding the Skyline gondola. While there, we will also visit a Maori village and learn about aboriginal culture. From Auckland, we will fly to Sydney, Australia to explore the sites, including the Sydney Tower, a boat ride of the harbor, and Hyde Park Barracks Museum. The next flight will be to Cairns to go snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef with a marine biologist and an excursion to Kuranda: Skytrail train and Pamagirri Rainforest Walkabout. This will be an incredible 12 day experience with abundant history and culture.
NHS teachers Deb Gauthier and Chris Rundquist will be accompanying the students and adults on this tour of Australia and New Zealand. In the summer of 2024, we took a group of students and adults on a tour of four European countries. Deb Gauthier has been teaching in the social studies department in Neenah for 32 years. She has traveled with EF tours to China, England, France, Netherlands, and Germany. Chris Rundquist has been teaching social studies for 26 years at NHS. He has over ten years of travel experience with students to Washington D.C., New York, and Egypt with EF tours.
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Bell’Italia: Art and Culture of Italy
Lead Chaperone: Lisa Dorschner
June 2025
Join us in June of 2025 for this 9-day, ‘best of Italy’ tour with art teacher Lisa Dorschner. This will be her fourth EF tour with students, with plenty of additional world travel experience to share at our meeting. We will begin our tour in the beautiful city of Venice, have a gondola ride, enjoy St. Mark’s Square and the island of Burano.
We then travel to Florence to see where Michelangelo lived, among many other famous Renaissance artists and architects. We’ll see the famous Duomo and Bell Tower, the Church of Santa Croce, the Piazza della Signoria, the Ponte Vecchio, and the Gates of Paradise. A day trip to explore the little town of Assisi follows, where we will visit the breathtaking Basilica of St. Francis, containing beautiful frescoes about his life and the tomb of this beloved Italian saint. Our tour then continues to Rome, where we will visit Vatican City, see Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, and explore the wonder of St. Peter’s Basilica. A walking tour will take us through the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and many other classic Roman sites, including the Piazza Novena, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and the Spanish Steps. We hope students can join us for this exciting tour. Parents are also welcome!
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