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title: Blog | Prométour Travel Blog | Lori Hammerschmidt (2)
description: Before joining the Prométour team as a Tour Project Manager Lori taught English in Colombia for two years. She’s a fan of many things including travel, the outdoors, animals, theatre, and history. She can’t wait to help kick off your student trip! (2)
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 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On December 6, 2018
## [How Many Wonders of the World Are There?](https://blog.prometour.com/how-many-wonders-of-the-world-are-there)
If you ask your students what the *Seven Wonders of the World* are, they could give you upward of forty-nine answers, and they...
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 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On December 4, 2018
## [Prométour’s Trip to New Orleans](https://blog.prometour.com/prometours-trip-to-new-orleans)
New Orleans was settled by the French in 1718, making 2018 it’s tricentennial! The Prométour team were among the many tourists...
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Tags: [Blog](https://blog.prometour.com/tag/blog), [Languages](https://blog.prometour.com/tag/languages), [STEM](https://blog.prometour.com/tag/stem),
 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On November 29, 2018
## [Good Deeds for St. Andrew's Day!](https://blog.prometour.com/good-deeds-for-st-andrews-day)
November 30th is St. Andrew’s Day, the patron saint of Scotland! A fisherman from Galilee, St. Andrew and his brother Simon Peter...
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 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On November 27, 2018
## [Introducing Our Prométour Passports](https://blog.prometour.com/prometour-passports)
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 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On November 20, 2018
## [Happy Thanksgiving from Prométour Educational Tours](https://blog.prometour.com/happy-thanksgiving-from-prometour-educational-tours)
While Canadian Thanksgiving has passed, American Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Here in our Canadian office we have a...
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 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On October 25, 2018
## [Halloween: From the World to Your Classroom](https://blog.prometour.com/halloween-from-the-world-to-your-classroom)
It’s that time of the year again when witches, ghouls, black cats, and goblins come to roam the streets in search of sweets....
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 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On October 23, 2018
## [Park Güell – Blending Nature and Architecture](https://blog.prometour.com/visit-park-guell-student-trip-barcelona)
Barcelona is an art-lover’s dream, in no small part thanks to Antoni Gaudí, one of Catalonia’s most famous artists of Modernism....
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 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On October 18, 2018
## [The Spookier Side of La Belle Province](https://blog.prometour.com/the-spookier-side-of-la-belle-province)
Are your students suckers for all things eerie and perhaps a bit frightening? Well so are the citizens of Quebec, from...
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Tags: [Blog](https://blog.prometour.com/tag/blog), [Quebec](https://blog.prometour.com/tag/quebec), [Culture](https://blog.prometour.com/tag/culture)
 By [Lori Hammerschmidt](https://blog.prometour.com/author/lori-hammerschmidt) On October 10, 2018
## [A Ghost at the Garnier Opera House of Paris?](https://blog.prometour.com/a-ghost-at-the-garnier-opera-house-of-paris)
History, art, and mystery – the Garnier Opera House has all three, its mystery in no small part due to French author Gaston...
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