Volunteering & Service Learning in Spain, Cuba & Puerto Rico
Customized educational short-stay programs with rich immersive learning experiences
High school trips: what we offer
A high school trip focuses heavily on cultural immersion regardless of your students' language capabilities to enhance personal, social, and emotional development
Alandis’ short-stay high school trips are a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience designed to meet the specific needs and interests of your group of students. Our custom programs for high schools will take you across the cities and natural wonders of several European or Latin American countries.
These flexible programs are designed to offer a blend of cultural immersion, language learningy educational experiences. The custom program is created after working closely with you, the teacher, and other high school faculty, to understand your specific interests and requirements.
This may include visits to historical sites, educational institutions, museumsy cultural landmarks. Depending on your program’s goals, there may be opportunities to attend language classes, engage in community service activities, participate in cultural events, or meet local students to practice language skills.
What to expect when customizing your school trip
The Alandis Travel Promise
- Safety guarantee: our greatest priority is your students' safety, which is why we have one of the best developed protocols in the industry.
- Bespoke itineraries: you tell us your budget and program objectives and we'll give you various options to help you understand what you can fit on your trip.
- No-obligation quote: with 50+ years building custom programs and excellent client satisfaction, we know you will love our client service and proposals.
- Tour & site coordinators: our tour coordinators receive and accompany your groups throughout the journey, while our site coordinators are responsible for the well-being of your students throughout their trip, and will be there to accompany them and resolve any issues 24/7.
- Teacher planning resources: unsure what to include? We're happy to share promotional, organizational and safety resources to help you plan your trip accordingly.
- Free travel for teachers: we typcally include teacher & chaperone travel for free in the pricing.
What can be included?
- Spanish language or content-based classes & materials
- Certificate on completion
- Language exchanges with local students
- Service learning
- Cultural visits
- Viajes de ida y vuelta en el día
- Homestay accommodation
- Transportation
- Health insurance & 24/7 emergency support
Our programs are entirely customizable and adaptable to your specific preferences and needs.
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Benefits of Alandis' high school trips
💡Cultural immersion
💡Education/career opportunities
💡Academic enrichment
💡Personal growth
💡Global citizenship
💡Cultural immersion
- Students immerse themselves in a new way of life, learn a new language, and gain a better understanding of the world around them.
- Boost cultural encounters from flamenco dancing to guitar building and other local activities to discover culture and have genuine authentic interactions
- Students hold regular conversation exchanges y social meetups with local students
- Students see and experience an alternative way of life first-hand with the opportunity to try things they never would without the exchange relationship
- Students find it considerably easier to build relationships in a setting specifically engineered for this purpose
- Students often create long-lasting relationships with their exchange partner and their family for many years
💡Education/career opportunities
- Studying abroad can enhance a student’s resume and increase their chances of being accepted into a prestigious university or landing a job in a global marketplace. Employers value candidates with international experience and language skills.
- Students experience a different educational system y values para compare with their own
- Study the same topics and themes as at home but from a different perspective/cultural bias
- Students boost their CV with courses in Spanish y personal & visual presentation opportunities in Spanish too
- Students build a network of international contacts that they will stay in touch with for many years
💡Academic enrichment
- Students who participate in exchange programs have the opportunity to study subjects that may not be available at their home school. They also get to learn from new teachers and experience different teaching styles.
- Learn real, colloquial Spanish used day-to-dayy learn formal alternatives in your Spanish courses for a comprehensive approach to improving your Spanish
- We offer the option to level test students before and after their exchanges to measure their language improvement
💡Personal growth
- Living in a new country and attending school in a different environment can be challenging, but it also helps students develop independence, self-confidencey problem-solving skills. They learn to adapt to new situations, make new friendsy navigate unfamiliar surroundings.
💡Global citizenship
- By studying abroad, students gain a better understanding of global issues y become more aware of their role as global citizens. They learn to appreciate diversity, respect other culturesy develop a sense of empathy for people from different backgrounds.
Alandis made our high schoolers' trip to Spain seamless! The staff at Alandis is absolutely wonderful. We, as teachers in the US, exchanged many emails for many months with Laura. She always responded with great detail, having checked into all of our questions and concerns thoroughly. Rocío, our trip leader took care of the things on the ground with local guides, and Michelle and Ramon were so welcoming and generous. We would absolutely plan a trip with them again.
I worked with Alandis Travel, an academic travel company
that put together an intensive itinerary
custom-tailored to my quirky interests. I couldn't have been happier. See trip review
Alandis Travel has been a stellar partner in organizing our exchange program with a school in
Seville. The staff is dedicated to creating a rich experience for our students and provides us
with ongoing support throughout our entire stay. Due largely to the efforts of Alandis Travel, this exchange program has become very popular among our students, and the campus in Seville is considered an extension of our campus in the U.S., focusing on experiential learning and language immersion.
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