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"I defy anybody to find a better student Europe trip than this one," he says, smiling. "This is a challenge to the Park City community."Krenkel designs the itinerary of the 39-day expedition across the European continent himself, making it a "truly custom trip." The focus, he says, is art (the tour features about 120 museums and cathedrals), but the purpose is to gain a deeper sense of European culture and history. June 16, 2008, about 75 students. Krenkel, PCHS English teacher Ed Potts, and a few other adult supervisors will board a plane to Brussels, Belgium. PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN FISCHER During the 39-day trip, the group Park City High School students on their 2006 Europe trip at will go to Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Val Ferret in the Alps of Courmayeur, Italy. Italy, and France. the beaten path, so to speak. "All ences of my life." This Europe trip, according to Going on the greatest student the tour groups go left - we go Europe trip ever is not a privilege right," says Krenkel, who insists everyone I have ever talked to we students take lightly. One that the high culture and low cul- about it, formally or informally, off the record or on it, is unique. requirement of participation is tak- ture are equally important. ing AP Art History so that we actuWhy? Take a look at the One feature of the trip that is ally understand the paintings and not usually featured on high school Student Rules Form. One of the architecture we will see in the con- tours is a much more solemn visit listed conditions is, "I will allot text of the time each work was cre- to the concentration camp at myself no more than one meal at a ated. M c D o n a l d s / P l a n e t Auschwitz. When asked what was so impor- Hollywood/Hard Rock CafeVPizza Not only do we attend a fourhour class every Saturday, many of tant about going to Auschwitz, Hut/Burger King/KFC/etc. ad nauus are paying for the trip ourselves, Krenkel responds, "There is no seum. That's one meal total for Jordan Fischer or at least splitting the $7,000 cost adjective on Earth that can the whole trip!! I am not in Record intern with our parents. I myself just describe what happened at Europe to have an American/Park wiped out my bank account mak- Auschwitz, or in the Holocaust. City experience!!!!" Every single ing the final payment - leaving me There are no words that can make participant has signed their soul the center of town and eat at the sense of it all." He pauses. "But away to European cuisine for 38 American restaurants." with a stunning balance of $31.76. From about 3 or 4 p.m., almost The stories I hear have me con- somehow [in being there] you do days. every day, students are free to sense it." "There's always the potential vinced it will be well worth it when explore. This means finding your I step off the plane in Brussels, not It's not fun and games, but it is for a totally Roman (or Austrian or own dinner night. "We to set foot on American soil for 39 important, Krenkel feels, to under- Parisian or . . .] experience," don't includeevery dinners, because The trip days. stand at least in some respect, what Krenkel enthuses. tour dinners suck," Krenkel "Being at encourages students to push their laughs. 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