EXCHANGE WITH
GERMANY
ALFELD + BERLIN + WOLFSBURG + HARZ + GÖTTINGEN
The February half-term break saw
a group of 15 students from 3rd, 4th
and 5th Year, accompanied by Mr
Galloway and Mrs Wright, make the
return visit to Alfeld to stay with their
partners who had visited Pocklington in
September 2017. some of it into English which was good.
Then we went to Germany’s longest
suspension bridge in the Harz which
was next to a huge dam. It was very cold
and windy but the view was beautiful.”
– Harry
This was the 18th annual exchange,
and once again, lots of fun was had,
and German was spoken, with plenty of
visits and activities thrown in! Students
spent a full weekend with their host
families and then we had day trips to
Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Berlin, the
Harz mountains and a half-day trip to
the beautiful town of Göttingen. “I lived in Alfeld with Milena and her
family who were very friendly and
welcoming. In the evening we watched
TV, one night we watched Germany’s
Next Top Model. We also ate in a Chinese
Restaurant which was very nice. We
also went shopping with some of
Milena’s friends and had a smoothie
from Immer Grün which tasted really
good.” – Charlotte
Here are a few quotations from the
students involved, taken from some
reports they have written….
“Autostadt was very interesting and the
concept cars were very cool. After, we
went to the premium club lounge and
saw a Bugatti Veyron, which was gold
and mirrored. It looked really nice but
probably cost quite a lot of money.”
- Henry
“My lesson was double Chemistry.
The first half of the lesson was about
safety. There was a funny video at the
end about a cartoon man playing with
dangerous chemicals. In the second half
of the lesson, we burned magnesium to
make magnesium oxide and answered
questions on it. I learnt some new
german words.” – Ewan
“The trip to Harz was very fun and
also interesting. The silver mine gave us
an insight to life in the mines and the
difficulty of the work. We got the train
at 9:00am and headed to the mines,
and that was quite fun and informative;
those who are tall struggled with the
height of the mine. The colours that
leaked from the walls of the mine were
vibrant and pretty. After that we went to
the local town of Goslar and had lunch
in a local bakery. Then we headed to
Harz and up the mountain via a cable
car. On the way down we had lots of
snowball fights. It was a lot of fun and
we all got along well. The journey home
was funny and quite cold. Overall it was
a ton of fun and I‘m glad we went!”
– Sophia
“In Berlin we had a tour of the
Bundestag and saw the Brandeburg
Gate. After that we went shopping but
our partners took us the wrong way! We
got there eventually. I bought chocolate,
a top and lots more things.” – Taggy
“On Sunday we went to the Baumann
Höhle which is a cave and had a tour
in German. Felix’s mother translated
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