<p>Parents, where are your collegians headed for spring break? Have any decided to stay home and work? Also, are any of them headed to Mexico?</p>
<p>One is flying to Jamaica; the other is driving (or perhaps driving to Laredo, TX and taking the bus the rest of the way) to Mexico to go climbing at El Chico Potrero near Monterrey. </p>
<p>(I am very, very not happy about the kid hieing off to Mexico. But she has been in contact with the American Embassy in Monterrey about the local situation there.)</p>
<p>Mine is headed to Cancun, and I am also not happy. I just e-mailed her the article you posted, Dave, on College Life. I pray that she’ll keep her wits about her, and that Providence will keep her away from the areas where innocents get caught in the crossfire.</p>
<p>Israel – has a friend doing an internship there so she can stay with friend</p>
<p>Mine is going to the Bahamas with his rugby club</p>
<p>Mine is headed to the Dominican Republic. She went to Cancun last year and had no problems.</p>
<p>Mexico scares me these days. A lot.</p>
<p>Does the group find Mexico scarier than Israel?</p>
<p>How about home? I don’t get this whole Spring Break craze. If my kids have extra money that they could spend on Spring break then they could help to pay off some of their college expenses now.</p>
<p>my D is leaving Friday for Costa-Rica for a week… i’m a little scare… but i am happy for her to be going somewhere and having fun with a group of friends instead of coming home and be bored… like last year…</p>
<p>He’s coming home.</p>
<p>My daughter is in Spain this week during her spring break. She’s there with her Spanish literature professor and a group of students. Didn’t cost her anything in the sense that she had more independent scholarships than she had tuition - she’ll be in classes or clinics nonstop 8-6 for the next two and a half years, so she’s getting her last hurrah.</p>
<p>Last year’s spring break was spent in Tijuana, which had me a nervous wreck. The college took them there to speak with environmental workers and justice workers. She kept telling me that “Sister John would protect me until her dying breath”, and I’d ask what would happen after Sr John took that dying breath. Over Christmas the school took her to Guatamala for a worktrip, and the state dept. kept sending travel advisories for there, too.
I think the Catholic university people have more faith than this here protestant mother…</p>
<p>My S is studying in Florence this semester, taking a 10 day trip to Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris. A bit more exotic than the past 2 years when he stayed home.</p>
<p>Oldest usually stayed at her school past freshman year. If their breaks coincided her sister would go visit her,</p>
<p>My younger daughter was disappointed when many of the friends she made last year as a freshman didnt return to the OOS university, so she is going to go visit one in Colorado for spring break.</p>
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<p>Agree 100%. I wonder how many of these kids taking spring break vacations are the same ones receiving need-based aid? Just wondering…show of hands, please.</p>
<p>D2 is headed to Florida to lay in the sun, golf and watch baseball games. Her BF’s family rented a house and invited her along. This is her first spring break trip without us!</p>
<p>Heyalb, I’m wondering the same thing. Who is paying for the Spring breaks?</p>
<p>I have no objection to a spring break vacation. </p>
<p>And, who are we to question the way another student spends his or her money? 
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<p>My S is coming home and bringing a friend who has never been to this part of the country.</p>
<p>She’s coming home and we’ll take a few days off to go some local outings.</p>