RRHS students experience culture in Europe

Ken Johnston
Editor

For four Rainy River High School Students their spring break was filled with cultural experiences that will last a life time.
Danielle Shrumm, Missy Hartnell, Trienke van Rozen and Kevin Nordberg all travelled to Europe on March 8, 2002 with teachers Paul Elliott and Lori Armstrong.
Hartnell and Shrumm said that the experience that they will remember the most from the trip was the visit to Anne Frank’s hiding place in Amsterdam. Having both acted in the play Diary of Anne Frank last fall at RRHS, they felt like they had a real connection to the actual hiding place. Hartnell said that their set last fall was very accurate and had she not acted in the play the visit to the hiding place might not have had the impact it did.
Other highlights for the week long trip included three days in London, England where they toured St. Pauls Cathedral, watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and rode the Millennium Ferris Wheel which is the biggest of its kind in the world. In London they also visited London Towers and the Museum of Natural History.
A trip through the chunnel took them under the English Channel in about 20 minutes as the high speed train they rode on travels at about 180 miles per hour.
After that trip they arrived in Paris, France where the first item of business was a tour of the Eiffel Tower. Sight seeing in Paris took them to Versailles, the Arch de Triomphe and the Louvre.
A train ride to Amsterdam led them to visit a diamond factory, Anne Frank’s hiding place and the Vincent Van Gogh museum.
Each of the group had favourite parts of the trip. Shrumm said she really liked all of London. Hartnell liked the Anne Frank hiding place the best. van Rozen liked the entire trip and Nordberg said he enjoyed the beautiful women of Paris.