Summer is the perfect time to do new things, especially things that are difficult to do during the school year, like traveling. However, during the summer, students have three whole months that can be used to travel, with family or individually through a summer program.

If traveling with family is too difficult to plan because of a parent’s work schedule, there are a wide variety of summer travel programs for high school students that can be explored, including programs for volunteering, and language immersion. These programs can often be very expensive but many offer scholarships.

There is no better way to learn a language than to be immersed in it while living with a host family. There are also language learning programs for students that aren’t ready to fully immerse themselves in a family. In these programs students stay in dorms with other students from all over the world.

It can be less expensive and sometimes more fun to travel with family, and it can be easier to plan. The downside to summer travel programs is that an individual participating in one has very little say in what they do. When traveling with family everyone gets a say in what a student does. Another upside about traveling with family is learning about and experiencing a different culture firsthand.

Traveling during the summer is a great way to meet new people and have once in a lifetime experience. Most high school students don’t get the opportunity to become certified scuba divers in Australia but there are summer travel programs like that one that exist. Overall, traveling over the summer in high school is an enriching experience and something that everyone should do if they have the opportunity to.