Every Friday morning, my third grade class takes a trip to a different part of the world. We talk about the geography of lands, the cities atop mountains, the varying cuisines, how every country has its own form of dumplings, the adaptations its people had to make, the hardships they had to endure, and how beautiful the world really is. We discuss how we are all so very different and how we are all really the same. They line up for their “customs” stamp in their passport, and they mostly say the same reason when I ask them why they are traveling, and that is “to be with my friends.”

Let’s take a trip!