Four students from Wareham High Schools’ global education class are working their tails off to travel northward this coming April.

In order to raise money to offset the cost of going to Sweden, Norway, and Finland for nine days in the Spring, Hannah Eddleston, Carolyn King, and Madison Hough were selling baked goods and hand-knitted Vikings caps at the Wareham Free Library Saturday. The baked goods sale had already netted them $75 by the afternoon.

Eddleston said she, King, Hough, and a fourth young woman in their class, are also tutoring in the school’s afterschool CARE program to earn extra cash. The three young women at the library were unsure how much they had raised, to date.

Hough explained the four would be going to Wareham’s sister high school in Trollhatten, Sweden to act as ambassadors. The trip they will be taking is in conjunction with a larger, district-wide trip to Sweden to participate a global student summit. The trip will include students in kindergarten through high school.

“We are going to set up a relationship with our sister school, and we are trying to raise money, as much as we can, by April vacation,” Hough said.

“After we come back, we can keep emailing and start Skyping, and hopefully they will be able to come here and shadow us,” Eddleston said.

King went on a short trip of the same kind to Italy last year, and “loved it.” She is looking forward to this trip, too, but said the four were in a bit of a rush to raise money.

“[St. Julien] told us in, like, late October – ‘Hey, do you guys want to go to Sweden?’” King remembered. “We were like, ‘Yeah, sure … ?’”

Eddleston said she is particularly excited to take a night ferry to Helsinki, while King just wants to get down some basic Swedish.

“I have an app right now, and it’s not helping me,” King said, and laughed.

King and Eddleston both said they are interested in traveling abroad more, when they reach college.

“I love the idea of traveling a lot, and learning new languages,” King said. “I want to be multi-lingual, like my mom, so I can just go to places, and not have to worry about needing an interpreter or a guide or anything.”

The cost of the trip per student is $4,000. For more information, or to help the students get to Sweden, email Henry St. Julien at stj@wareham.k12.ma.us, or call him at 508-295-3510, ext. 743. The four will also be setting up GoFundMe pages to help with their expenses.