After one night and one day in Berlin we finally came to our German friends in Dorf Mecklenburg.
On Tuesday we had a great day. We got up very, very early in the morning, which is stressfull for us but it is worth. We came to school by buses. The day started with two lessons – one part of the group had chemistry and the other part had mathematics. In the chemistry room it was very exciting, because there were many new and interesting things for us – for example, the uniforms with big glasses and the experiments which we made.
After that we made a tour in Dorf Mecklenburg. It was very interesting for us to see the nice houses, the church and the other sites in the village.
When the tour was over we came back to the school and we watched presentations and movies about our first meeting in Bulgaria. Eric’s and Mirco’s movies were very cool, expecially Eric’s movie was very exciting and it was professionally-made. We also saw the homepages and blogs of the project.
In the afternoon we went home and we had free time with our hosting families. We were very happy that afternoon. We had funny moments like Atanaska’s fall from the swing.
The top event of the day was the grill-party in the school. It was very funny and the food was very tasty. We grilled much meat and bratwurst. There were many different sauces and bread. We laughted a lot. It was a wonderful day.
On Wednesday we were in Schwerin. Here we visited a Dokumentazionzentrum. It was very interesting for us to see it, because we had never been in a place like that. It used to be a political prison in the past but still there are cells, saved from those times. We watched them with interest because we had never seen a political prison. The stories about the prison were impressing – the authority treated people very bad. In this Center we met a German man Uwe Mälck, who tried to escape from East Germany by crossing the Bulgarian border with Greece in 1988. We were impressed by his story and all the things he had been through. After the meeting we had some free time in Schwerin and we went sightseeing. In the afternoon we came back in our host families and spent the evening with them.
On Thursday we went to Rostock. There we met the members of the Youth Parliament of Germany. They told us how they participated in the school management. It was new for us to learn how young people make their own rules in school and how they give their ideas for the ways of work. Everyone of us was impressed by the participation of the Youth Parliament in school life and we understood that we have to make the school better. There is no other one who can make the rules and the laws in school better than us because school is for us and only we know how to make it a better place. After the interesting meeting we had some free time in Rostock. We spent the afternoon in the host families again and we had fun. Some of us were on a walk in the villages of the families, some of us were at the lake, but we all had fun .
We started the Friday with work on our documentation. The teachers made final changes on the documents and they got everything in order. We worked on the homepage of the project. We put some information on it and we also put some pictures from our visit in Germany. After the last minutes of work we went to Wismar. There we visited some interesting sites in the town. We got back to school in Dorf Mecklenburg at lunchtime. After that we went back to our houses. Everyone of us had a special program for the afternoon. Some of us were in Schwerin, others were at the lake or on a walk. Five people of the Bulgarian project participators and two of the German project participators went to Greifswald for a seminar. They said that it was very interesting for them on this seminar. They also had looked and the city and gone to a beach.
Saturday was our free day in the host families. Everyone spent the day differently. Many of us were taken to some towns which were near Dorf Mecklenburg like Wismar, Schwerin, Rostock or Hamburg.
The Sunday was the worst day. We had to say goodbye to each other. It was hard to leave, but we had to. Our flight back to Bulgaria was in the evening so we had some free time in Berlin. We visited many sightseeings that day for example Check Point ‘Charlie’, the Brandenburger Tor, the Bundestag, the new museum “Topographie des Terrors”, Kudamm, Alexanderplatz, the Olympia Stadion, the Fernsehturm.
At 6 o’clock we were at the airport and we were waiting for our flight. All of us were very tired, but we were happy about the trip. Many of us didn’t want to go back home, because they really enjoyed their stay in Germany and in the host families. It was really great! Our trip back home continued to 4 o’clock in the morning and it was 9 days in fact. We came home really tired and really happy. We now have many new ideas for the new project and we are full of good feelings.
Velislava Ivanova, Kl.11b, Dobrich
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