Galapagos 2020 Trip - Info Session 4/16/19

Dear Parents of Current 9th, 10th, 11th Grade Students,

As you may have heard from your child, Friends Academy is running a trip to the Galapagos Islands from Feb. 14 - Feb. 22, 2020 for students in the Upper School. Although that seems like a long way off, we are working on registration now in order to lock in the best rates possible for the trip. An information brochure with itinerary, costs, and other information is attached to this email.

We will be holding a Parent Information Session at 6:00pm on this upcoming Tuesday, April 16 in the Quaker Student Life Center. We will hand out registration forms at the meeting, and we will also be joined by a representative from the tour company (ACIS Educational Travel) to help answer any of your questions. If you are unable to attend this meeting but are seriously interested, please reach out to one of the trip leaders: Jen Newitt (jennifer_newitt@fa.org), Jeff Burt (jeffrey_burt@fa.org), or Casey Reed (casey_reed@fa.org).

We sincerely hope that it works out that student interest matches with the number of students we can take, but if that is not the case, we would like you to know that will prioritize students by older grades first. Hopefully, we will repeat the trip in future years so that all interested students will have a chance to go. For students who will be traveling this year, we will need to collect deposits for the trip by May 1 in order to lock in the price quoted for the trip. Final payments will be due in November and ACIS will provide various options for payment plans.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to reach out to any of the trip leaders.

Sincerely,

Jen Newitt

Jeff Burt