Several GJHS world trips to take place

Students can attend long-distance trips around the world

Lincoln McQuade, Managing Editor • August 19, 2025

This poster advertises an upcoming French Club trip to Belgium, France, and Switzerland. GJHS French teacher Jodee Cronk will lead this trip in the early summer of 2028.

Grand Junction High School takes more summer trips than a swimmer in high heels.

The school plans long-distance trips during spring break and over the summer. The soonest trip will take place during the spring break of 2025-2026, and students will visit Costa Rica from March 12 to March 26. GJHS teachers Sarah Henao and Justin Whiteford will lead the trip.

“The students have the opportunity to earn college credit on all of the trips, and it’s also a really good opportunity to expand their world view and see how other cultures live,” said Henao.

The next GJHS trip is to Scandinavia during the summer of 2026. Students will tour Norway, Sweden, and Denmark starting May 30 to June 8 for the first group of students. Another group of students will begin the trip three days later, leave on the same day as the first group and vacation for nine days. Whiteford and Henao will also lead the trip.

“I think [Denmark] is gonna be fun… because I really want to go to the LEGO House. I think it’s going to be a good trip,” said GJHS sophomore Eric Scott.

The next sign-up meeting for both of these trips will be on August 26 in the GJHS library, starting at 6:00 p.m. for the Costa Rica meeting and 6:30 for the Scandinavia meeting.

In the Spring Break of the 2026-2027 school year, Whiteford and Henao will also lead students on a trip to China. The trip will be from March 10 to March 21. Then, in the summer of the 2026-2027 school year, Whiteford and Henao will lead a trip to Kenya and Tanzania, starting on June 1 and ending on June 12.

In the summer of the 2027-2028 school year, GJHS French teacher Jodee Cronk will lead a French Club trip to Belgium, France, and Switzerland.

“All three countries that we are going to visit are absolutely amazing and beautiful, and even though they all have French speakers, like French is one of their official languages, they are all very different as far as culture and even geography and architecture, so we get to see a wide variety of things in a short time,” said Cronk.

The trip will take place from May 26 to June 4, 2028. According to Cronk, an interest meeting will take place within a few weeks, and the trip will cost $5,500.

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Lincoln McQuade, Managing Editor

Lincoln McQuade is a GJHS senior and this year’s Managing Editor. This is his second year on the staff and his first as an editor. Lincoln enjoys playing the guitar and bass, and he is very excited to be a prominent editor this year.