Student Perspective

Graceland Highlights of the 2014 Fall Semester

January 21, 2015

Winning Football Team In the fall of 2013, Graceland’s football team had a not so great season if you measure success in terms of wins and losses. Putting it nicely, it was a long season for any die-hard fans. But...

January 20, 2015

Winter Term 2015 COSA sponsored a trip to Des Moines to watch an Iowa Wild hockey game. Around forty students signed up for a free ticket, soda, popcorn, hot dog and a ride to Des Moines. We had good seats...

January 20, 2015

Over all this has been such an amazing experience for me. Going to Belize to do yoga is not bad for my first time out of the country(: I never thought that I would be relaxing on the beach in...

January 20, 2015

Today was our first day doing yoga on the beach - kind of. There was this concrete platform just outside of the Tipsy Tuna restaurant off the beach that we practiced on. It was still a little more difficult to...

January 19, 2015

We woke up around 7:30 this morning and walked down the street over to the river. Once we were on the boat we headed off towards the sea. About half way to our destination, the engine started messing up. He...

January 17, 2015

Today we got went to a cacao farm! When we got there, it looked liked a small house, but that is exactly what it was. The house is a organic cacao farm where they make all kinds of goodies. In...

January 16, 2015

We got up bright and early and left for the tours. Half of the group went to cave tubing and zip lining, and the other half of us went to see mayan ruins and then cave tubing, but at a...

January 15, 2015

School can be stressful sometimes. Often times, your homework piles up until you feel like your drowning in it. Some stressors you can avoid, and some you can’t. You can avoid some of the unnecessary stress by managing your time...

January 15, 2015

Today we got to go on a tour of a Banana Farm! We left around 9, got in a big school bus, and headed down the Peninsula. When we first arrived, we saw so many trees that looked like small...