German exchange programe

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…..!!