{"id":5976,"date":"2016-02-08T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2016-01-13T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:21:49","slug":"group-leader-vivian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/group-leader-vivian","title":{"rendered":"Group Leader Spotlight: Vivian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5971\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vivian_Rovirosa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5971\" class=\"wp-image-5971 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vivian_Rovirosa-e1452708044496-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vivian\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vivian_Rovirosa-e1452708044496-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vivian_Rovirosa-e1452708044496.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivian, librarian<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Vivian\u2019s enthusiasm for travel is\u00a0contagious. \u201cI love to travel,\u201d she\u00a0says. \u201cMy husband and I do home\u00a0exchanges, so when I started working\u00a0at a high school I wanted to help my\u00a0students see the world, too.\u201d At the\u00a0recommendation of a coworker, she\u00a0reached out to Explorica.<\/p>\n<p>Vivian was thrilled by the support and the ability to\u00a0change her student-chaperone ratio, so parents could\u00a0join her trips. \u201cI want families to be able to share in\u00a0the travel experience,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes that experience includes unexpected\u00a0changes. \u201cThe day before my trip to Greece, my\u00a0program consultant called to let me know that our\u00a0airline was striking,\u201d she begins. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know\u00a0how it would affect us, but she was already making\u00a0contingency plans in case we got stuck on our layover\u00a0in Rome.\u201d As an experienced traveler, Vivian took the\u00a0situation in stride, but not everyone shared her level\u00a0of comfort. \u201cOne mother was so concerned about\u00a0her daughter, who was traveling abroad for the first\u00a0time, that she wanted to back out completely,\u201d Vivian\u00a0recalls. Thankfully, the mother decided to let her\u00a0daughter come, and it paid off. \u201cWe got a bonus tour,\u201d\u00a0says Vivian. \u201cAs predicted, we got held up in Rome,\u00a0so Explorica gave us a tour of the city. We got to see\u00a0the Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, it was great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what became of the mom who wanted to cancel?\u00a0\u201cShe said she had been cured of her fear because\u00a0everything worked out so well,\u201d Vivian beams. \u201cThe\u00a0next year, she came on my trip and brought both of\u00a0her daughters. That\u2019s what Explorica does for people,\u00a0and that\u2019s why I travel with them: no matter what\u00a0happens, you can have faith in Explorica to give you\u00a0a great tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn about the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/explorica-advantages.aspx\">advantages of traveling with Explorica<\/a><\/strong>, or call 1.888.3410.7120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian\u2019s enthusiasm for travel is\u00a0contagious. \u201cI love to travel,\u201d she\u00a0says. \u201cMy husband and I do home\u00a0exchanges, so when I started working\u00a0at a high school I wanted to help my\u00a0students see the world, too.\u201d At the\u00a0recommendation of a coworker, she\u00a0reached out to Explorica. Vivian was thrilled by the support and the ability to\u00a0change her student-chaperone ratio, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/group-leader-vivian\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,172],"tags":[345,58,113,17,128,425],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorica-news","category-teachers","tag-educational-tours","tag-educational-travel","tag-greece","tag-italy","tag-student-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6000,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}