From 31st March to 4th April 2008 seven students from Helsinki and Vlaardingen and three teachers visited our school. During the week they enjoyed different activities like a welcome-breakfast at school, a town-rallye or a visit of the castle.
For all students it was a big challenge to communicate in English for the whole days, sometimes also by using hands and feet. But the "highest" experience was the trip to the summit of the Brocken, the highest mountain of the Harz. We went there by steam railway because the weather was right as we expected - bad. Snow, storms, hail, fog and even a blizzard ;-). But being on the Brocken at nice weather with sunshine and a view about 200 kilometres would be boring, wouldn't it? At the summit we visited the "Brockenhaus", a museum about the nature of the Harz and about the Brocken and its meaning as a border between east and west during the Cold War. We also went back by train to Wernigerode. We spent our evenings together, for example at the bowling centre. On Friday we unfortunately had to say "good bye" but on 21st April we'll meet again in Helsinki!
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