Shreya Anand from India spent 14 days in Germany on an exchange program. Each day included activities like visiting landmarks, spending time with their host family, going to school, and socializing with other exchange students. Highlights included welcoming ceremonies from local leaders, exploring castles and parks, building a bee hotel in school, performing Indian dances, and developing close relationships with their partner and host family during their two week cultural exchange.

1. Day to day plan
@Germany
Shreya Anand
IX ‘C’

2. Day 1
 Reached Germany at Hannover airport & we were given a
warm welcome by the guest family.
 We had to drive 15 minutes from the airport to reach the
guest family houses.
 Each one of us were given a separate living room to stay
 After getting refreshed & spending some time with the
family and Anna my partner & myself left home and I met
all my other friends @ the market place.
 Later we were divided into groups and our partners were
explaining the monument and architectures were we took
some pictures and left back to our respective homes

3. Day 2
 Woke up at 6 A.M., had breakfast & we left home to go to
school @ 7.30 A.M.
 I was very eager to see the school & the school environment .
 Mr. Writz, Head of the school welcomed us and we then
heard them singing their German’s traditional song for us
though it was quiet loud it was really amazing to hear.
 Later we walked to Mayor place and we had a official
welcome by the Mayor.
 We had some ice-creams and we then got dispersed.
 Then we all went to bowling centre and we played for a while.
It was really a fun evening for all of us then we all returned
back to our homes

4. Day 3
 Day 3 started as usual.
 This time we took our bi-cycles to travel to the school
 On reaching the school we gathered together and went to the classes with
the partners.
 I went to class with my partner Anna to 11th grade class as she was part of
11th grade. Was with her for one class which was all about religion.
 After class we presented our ppt to the German partners & teacher.
 We were asked to do posters based on bio-diversity which we started
working on.
 Later, some of us went to river side and we took pictures & selfies and then
returned back home

5. Day 4
 Day 4, started usually and we had to go to railway station
 This day we planned to visit the national park and spend our whole day over there
 We took two rains to reach a place from where we walked till Luchsgehege & the
national park.
 We sang Tamil and English songs & our partners were singing German songs we
enjoyed our walk till the destination
 The ranger showed us a slide show about the park and the surroundings .
 As we were walking around the part, we saw Lynx , looks like a tiger. Then we
returned back from the park.
 On reaching the Satthagen railway station, my host parents picked us and took us
to their friend’s party which was really fun and we returned back home

6. Day 5
 We planned to visit the Zoo on Day 5.
 We as usual got up and reached the zoo.
 On reaching the place we were divided into groups and we started
walking around the zoo.
 We saw lost of animals & birds all over which were really amazing
to see.
 The zoo was well designed and well maintained.
 The animals were taken utmost care by them.
 We saw sea horse show which is one of the special shows in the
zoo.
 Later we clicked pictures of the animals and birds in the zoo.
 On reaching home we played board games with the guest family till
late night.

7. Day 6
 Today’s plan was to visit the Amusement park.
 We got ready & Left our homes.
 Niko( Iran partner) picked us up in his car and we were traveling
together to the Amusement park which took us around 2 hours from
home.
 We met all our friends out there.
 We all went for few rides which was really exciting and thrilling.
 The had lunch, then played few games which and we left the place
at 4 P.M.
 We left early so that we all reached our homes early and hit the bed
early as we were all really tired after a long tiring day of travel and
play

8. Day 7
 This day was the Family Day out.
 We spend really a very valuable time
knowing more about the family
members.

9. Day 8
 Day 8 we went to Buckeburg
castle.
 We saw lots of Monuments in the
castle.
 The monuments and the castle
was really astonishing and we
really had a great experience
visiting the place.

10. Day 9
 Today we to Steinhudermeer.
 We had a briefing session about the place and about
few animals and plants in that place.
 Later, we started walking and we entered the forest
area.
 We saw few bird habitats and we reached the river side.
 The river was really amazing and we saw a manmade
island in the centre of the river.
 We had tall tower made of wood which was very unique
and different.
 The guide told us some some stories about the river
and we hanged out there for some time and we came
returned back home.

11. Day 10
 We visited Hamburg. Today.
 We had a long journey in bus and we reached the
destination.
 Later, we went to the harbor and we had a ride in the
ship.
 Then we did some shopping out there and reached
home.

12. Day 11
 Day 11 we had to go to school.
 We learnt more about Biodiversity.
 We also got to understand that the Bees are very important for
human beings.
 We saw some videos about bees and their importance.
 Different parts of bees were shown through the microscopes
and we were asked to draw any three these thing which we
found interesting about the bees.
 Later, we were told to build a bee hotel. We collected the
resources and we were divided into groups.
 It was really a new experience for all of us to build a bee hotel.

13. Day 12
 Day 12 was a cultural day.
 We had dance performance to be done in front of all our partners and their
families.
 They really enjoyed our dance performances.
 We practiced for a while at school before we gave our performances.
 Dance performance happened in the evening on the stage.
 We were all dressed up in our traditional costume.
 We explained about our festivals in India.
 Later we took pictures with all our friends and family.

14. Day 13
 Today we went to
Bremen with few
friends and their
partners.

15. Day 14
 We left to airport at 6 A.M.
 It was a very emotional moment for all of us as we
had to leave our German partners and the family
and return to India.
 They really treated us as part of their family and
we never made us miss our own family back at
India.
 We took our flight to Frankfurt…..

16. Danke…..!!