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Some impressions of the students visit in Assen

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Students Exchange Assen 5-12 November 2016

We started on Monday.

We changed the train about 4 times, all in all the trip was about 6 hours long. When we arrived at the train station, a teacher and an exchange-girl were already there.

After walking about 15 minutes, we first met our exchange-students. We arrived at school. It's a very big College, also it's very modern. After  the headteacher and the English teacher had said hello , we went to our "new" home by car. The afternoon was free for the family.

The next day, we had workshops at school. We talked about environment, had a city-bicycle- tour, built solar mills, made presentations about smoking and all this of course in English.

Wednesday we visited Amsterdam.

First we visited a very old and small city, Zaanse Schans. We stopped on the dike and looked a statue from a very famous person: Dr. Lely, who designed the Deltaworks. Finally we arrived Amsterdam, first we got the chance to see the science-museum Nemo (It looked like a ship).

Then we went to a boat to get to know Amsterdam by a boat. After this we got 40 minutes freetime. We drove back to school.

Thursday we had a bicycle-tour. Personally for me it was hard, because I had to go to school by bike as well (50 minutes!). In the afternoon we prepared healthy and international food. In the evening(18:00) we had dinner at school. It was very cool, because there you could talk to each other and become friends with them.

Friday we go to Wildlands Emmen, it's like a zoo. The people told us (in English of course) something about the animals. The tour guide was very interesting. When going in the animal-houses, it was like being in an another world. At 15:10pm we go back to the bus and drove to school. The evening we got freetime with the family: I cooked, together with Roy, Pizza. In the evening I first celebrated Sint Maarten, it was very nice.

In Germany we would say, that it is a mix between Halloween and Laternenumzug: The kids go to the house sing a special song and get sweets. The supermarket is a part of this celebration as well. They don’t get only sweets: they get little gifts as well. In the Netherlands it takes place for the little kids (~Grundschule and lower). The celebration can be compared with a black (!) Nicolaus. The little brother of my exchange-student joined it with a sheep-latern. It looked very cute.

Today is Saturday, time to say goodbye. It will definitely be hard, but it's nice to know, that they'll come to Germany in March.

By Erik Schuman

Students visit Assen

Program                                                                   

Erasmus + “Live Healthily in a healthy environment”           Students visit Assen 5-12 November 2016

Saturday 5 November:

arrival of Polish students at railway station Assen (late afternoon)

Sunday 6 November:

Arrival of Turkish students at railway station Assen (late afternoon)

Monday 7 November:

Polish and Turkish students attend regular classes with their host students

arrival of German students  railway station Assen 12:57

afternoon: meeting at school: matching activities

15.00 meeting all teachers at school Penta

Tuesday 8 November:

8.15 all teachers at school ask pupils about experiences

8:30 welcome by director Mr. den Hollander

9.00-16.00 uur workshop carousel at school,  topics: environment/health

Workshops 1: Why is our environment in danger? DVD and assignments

Workshop 2: Solar Energy, build your own solar device

12.20 healthy lunch at school

Workshop 3: make and present Powerpoint on harmful effects of smoking;

!Students collect and bring facts from their own schools:

% of smoking students and teachers in their classes, school policy on smoking

Workshop 4: safe cycling in the Netherlands

17.30 dinner in Assen

Wednesday 9 November:

8:00 at school, departure by bus to Amsterdam (departure at Sligro)

10:00 Zaanse Schans

12:00 Amsterdam: visit Science museum Nemo

Lunch for teachers at Nemo

14:15 tour of Amsterdam by boat

15:15 walking tour in Amsterdam

17:00 departure

±19:30 back in Assen, dinner at home

Thursday 10 November:

9.30-13.00 cycle tour to National Park “Drentsche Aa”

13.00 lunch in Assen

Students prepare international healthy dinner at home

18:00 Dinner at school

Friday 11 November:

9.00 Visit Wildlands Emmen (departure at Sligro)

12.00 lunch for pupils and teachers in Wildlands

16.00 Back at school (Evaluation of visit on the bus)

Saturday 12 November:

Departure of students