Student Exchange with Sankt Ingbert (GERMANY)

From April 10 to 17, a group of students from 4ºA together with German and English teachers Rosa and Henar travelled to Sankt Ingbert, Germany, for the second part of the student exchange which started last September with the visit of the German students to Spain. This is the diary that our students kept during their week there.

Monday, by Alex Teubel. 

I started Monday attending three hours of classes with the German students, I was surprised when I saw all the new technologies and new material in the class compared with my class in Spain. The gymnasium was the best part because they had new material and enough for all the students.

I was impressed with how German teachers gave the class. It´s very different because they had two hours of class for each subject..

Walking the alpacas

The headmaster presented his school and he said that we had to have a very good experience in Germany.  

In the afternoon we were in the alpaca farm, where we were feeding the alpacas. After that we took some alpacas for a walk. Our alpaca´s name is Camelito and it was very funny to walk with all of them.

I was very lucky because I found a piece of obsidian. We walked with all of them in a forest near the alpaca farm.

For me this day was the best one because the alpacas were very calm. We named one Ñe because he always said "ñee".

After the beautiful day we went to the families and I had dinner with them, then I went to bed.

That´s all of my Monday in Germany, I had a very good experience there and if I can I want to repeat it.

Tuesday, by Inés Gómez.

On Tuesday, I got up at 6:45. Later, I had breakfast - a glass of orange juice and a piece of bread spread with Nutella. Then, we went to the high school of Sankt Ingbert where we  met the other students of the exchange in order to travel to Saarburg. We went to this place by bus and when we arrived we began a touristic route throughout the city of Saarburg. We visited the castle of this city which is known as the “Trier”. Then we had two hours of free time at which we saw over the city and bought some presents for our families. After that, we took a boat ride by the Saar River. It was very exciting because we rode in a lock. After that, we ate something in the boat. And finally, we climbed up a mountain for an hour. So, when we had finished the climbing, we returned to St.Ingbert and each one of the Spanish students went to his exchange partners'. It was raining a lot.  In the evening, we met most of the other students of the exchange to see the football match Real Madrid-Wolfsburg. The Real Madrid won and we ate something to celebrate . At 23:00 we returned home and we went to bed. It was a complete day and was the day that I liked most of the trip. 

Saarburg

Meander in River Saar

 

Wednesday, by Pablo Gil.

On Wednesday morning we went to the school for a few hours. Later we went to the Mayor Hall with our German partners, where the mayor received us and invited us to a drink and a snack. Then, only the Spanish, went to Saarbrücken by train to carry out a rally, where we had to look for some landmarks or curiosities around the city. After the rally, our German partners met us near the train station and we went to a restaurant (a not very cheap one)  to have lunch. Then we went shopping through the center of the city until we went back to St Ingbert, where each one went to their home to have dinner and sleep. 

 In Saarbrücken, the old telephone booths have been changed into 'libraries', where you leave your old books for anyone to borrow.

Thursday, by Tomás Tognozzi.

First, I got up at 6:30am. Then I had The typical German bread with butter for breakfast. Then I attended some classes. After class, we took a train which took us to Völklingen where there is a steel and ion factory. The factory had been turned into a museum and we had the chance to explore it by ourselves. The visit lasted until 2:00pm when we took the train back to Saarbrücken. There we ate some snack while doing some shopping. I was lucky to buy a T-shirt my size and a PS game for my dad. By 6:00pm we went back to St.Ingbert where we met some friends in a bar where we watched a football match - Bayern München vs.Bendica. To be honest, I didn't have any preferences and the match finished in a draw. When the match ended, my hostgirl and me went home and had a light supper. Finally, as I had to get up early the next morning, I went to bed to rest. 

 

Völklingen Ironworks has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Friday, by Alfredo Maestro.

Today was the last school day of the week, so we went to five classes: two of Spanish, two of French and one of maths. I like a lot one thing that it’s different from Spain, they don’t have a break of 30 minutes but instead of that they have longer small breaks between classes. The last two hours we went to another classroom with all the exchange students and teachers. Then we ate and drank something, and our teachers gave us some prizes of the city rally. Finally we all read a small text that we had made with our partners. The Spanish students read in German and the Germans in Spanish, so it was a bit funny.

The students of 4ºA got the first prize

When we went to home, we ate with the family and I played a board game similar to billiard for a while. I really enjoyed it because I won the two games. Later we had a shower and we met all the exchange students in a bar. There we talked about all the week and all the things that we had done, because it was the last day that we were all together. We also made some jokes so we had a very good time. We all went home early  because the next day everyone was going with his family to new cities or the countryside. This was probably the best day of all the week!