Written by Laura

In the morning of the 10th February 2 teachers and 20 students including me started a journey to Werther in Germany. Werther is a quite small town in Germany and there is also the school that my school does the students exchange with. We had to go to Riga’s airport by bus and from there go by plane to Bremen. After that we drove 2 more hours by bus and then we saw our new families. My family was so nice and helpful at everything. I shared a room with the older sister Mira who is only one year older than me.

On Thursday our hosts took us to their school so we could see how many differences we can find between our and their school. First of all they have longer lessons than us, so many more students and more lunch options. After schoolday we visited an expressionist painter Peter August Böckstiegel museum where we also got to draw by ourselves.

The following days were full on activities. I went shopping in Bielefeld where I got in trouble because my card didn’t work properly and I paid basically double but everything turned out well. On Saturday we went to play football and badminton. The most exciting day for me was Sunday because then I met Mira’s best friend’s exchange student from England. It was so unusual and amazing to hear the real British accent. By the way they really can’t live without tea!

On Monday we travelled back home but it didn’t go very well for me. I got sick in Germany and now I have been sick for almost a week. The trip was still fun and I regret nothing.

My amazing family :)

Demi

Here are some extracts from my diary while I was an exchange student in Werther between 10th and 15th February. The student exchange was organized by our school's English teacher and science teacher.
"God sooo cool, so ineffable feeling inside me, the plane starts to gather strength! We are going faster and faster, it isn't the same like by car or by bike it's more awesome!!! :D :3......Ohh God we are finally in the air! Here we come Germany <3 *In the Clouds*.... "
"All is white, the plane inclined... It's extremely bright because of the Sun. Soo comfortable! My ears are not clicking almost at all... It's 2.08PM and we are still flying I am seating middle, next to me are seating two women....one is writing on her russian book something and the other one who is sitting next to the window is watching out...but meanwhile she looks from her eyecorner what I am writing! Hmm I think she is sneaking after me right now, I hope she doesn't speak estonian :D but I think she even doesn't understand my handwriting :D *muahahahaaa* "
"Now it's 2.36PM I am listening music and eating my "Halls" candies what I bought from Riga's airport. For now I think we are at an altitude of 10 kilometers. It's so delightful up here!! :3 Even the Highest clouds are lower than us and the sky is all over blue! :)"
"Hahaa from the start, when we were still in Riga and just got my seat, one stewadess came in with one scarf and started asking whose scarf is this or something like that....first I didn't notice him and that it is my scarf but then Anette called my name and said: "Demi, this is your scarf!" I was like what the hell!? When did my scarf disappeared!?! :D And ofcourse I said it's mine and they gave it back to me."
Sometimes I was just watching oustside, there is much more text than I wrote here, in my diary while flying!
When we were finally in Bremen we continued our trip by bus...
"First evening at my "new home" was wonderful! :D In my family there are five children. My exchange student Josefine is the middle child, she has two older sisters and two younger sisters who are twins. Their house is soo big they have three floors. Room I got is on the second floor with my own bathroom."
On the second day we went to school for five lessons, first two lessons were Biology, next two were Chemistry and the fifth was Biochemistry. After that we went to the museum what was about three kilometers from Werther's school. Later when we arrived back from museum we went to May's place she was host of Merike. We baked there a muffin like pound cake. Later Merit with her host joined and we played UNO cards and ate that muffin.
On the third day all of Estonian students with teachers went to Bielefeld. We had a tour of the town and after that we got time for shopping. I couldn't buy anything because there was so few time!

When we arrived home Josefine showed me one church two kilometers away from her home we went there on foot. There was soo beautyful nature there was like a spring weather!!

 












In the evening me and my host went to Nane's place(Nane was host of Anette) and later Merit and Johanna joined. We had like girlsnight but anyway we had soooo much FUN!!! We talked eachother, we ate wraps, danced and took some pictures.

On the Saturday in the morning I felt so sick that I even couldn't get out of my bed.
"It's 6.24AM and I just came from bathroom I am feeling so sick and tired but I can't sleep at all! :/"  
I thought that it is because of that food we ate last night but was worse I had received a stomach virus.
"Now it's 7.55AM and again I just came from bathroom, still feeling so sick I thought I'm going to vomit! When I told to Josefine that I am feeling very sick she brought to me some tea. :) " 
When the others were at the sport centre I was at home in the bed trying to sleep. I maddly wanted to go to shopping in Bielefeld so one of the sisters picked me up from home and the others from sport centre and then we drove to Bielefeld.
After we got home me and Josefine watched a movie. Later I felt much better so we went to Kolja's place(he was Jaan's host).
On Sunday morning me and Josefine baked pancakes and then we had a breakfast. In the afternoon we went to Nane's place again. I tried real balerinas and we ate there waffles with cherries and ice cream...It was so so so divine but my stomach got sooo full after eating one waffle!!!

 

 Later we went to a pizza restaurant. More than half of Estonian students came there too. In the evening my exchange student gave me a gift and teached me some German sentences and then unfortunately I had to pack my things because next day we were leaving.
Last day morning we had quick breakfast and then we went to Werther's bus station. At least I was very sad that we had to leave so early. Everyone said the last words to their exchange students and their families, hugged and went to the bus. Then firstly again we travelled by bus then by plane and again by bus. And in the end we got home.

Activities at the Student exchange by Karl-Rico

On 10-15 February we had student exchange with Werther Evangelisches Gymnasium from Germany. We went to Germany on Wednesday night at 19.00. We arrived at Werther local bus stop and our exchange students were already waiting for us to arrive. After we went home and they introduced me to their home. I got myself a private room soo I could've some privacy.

The name of my host was Klaus Schmidt and he acted exactly like me and he was really fun. At the very night we ordered some pizza and talked whole night to get to know eachother. 

On Thursday we went to school in the morning. We had to wake up at 6.30 in the morning, I was not used to it and I was really tired. The schoolday was really fun and different compared to lessons in our school. My host Klaus was always really tired and lazy, he didn't want to do any business with singing and he was just sitting the whole lesson. In English class Klaus asked the teacher some really awkward questions, but it was funny because he had exactly zero shame. The food in Werther school was really good and delicious but some of the students didn't like it. After eating we had a trip to some old art museum. I didn't like it there because it was really small and there wasn't enough air for me and I started to feel bad. Later on when we were walking back to school me and Tarmo's hosts  picked us up and did us a town tour. We went home to chill for a bit and after that we went to Lukas' place who was a host for my friend Tarmo. We played a football match in fifa. In final it was me and Klaus and I won by penalties. Klaus got really angry because it was his game and he was really good at this game. I told him that i haven't played this game but really I have this game at home too. I told him that later on and we laughed about it. 

 On Friday we went to Bielefeld and did a town tour. We did some amzing tourist photos and it was all fun and entertaining. Bielefeld old town was really beautiful and there was a lot of statues to see. After the tour we went to restaurant to eat. It was called ''Piro'' and it was Turkish restaurant. Our service was really good, the guy who was a waitress made a selfie with us and it was really fun. At the evening me and Tarmo went gokarting with our hosts. I was again the quickest one. We drove for half an hour and it was cheaper than in Estonia. After that we just went home to chill. 

After Gokarting

On Saturday we went to play football and badminton with other Estonians and Germans. We had a football match between Estonians and Germans but Estonia won. We got really tired of badminton and we started playing golf with badminton kit. It was really a great fun. After that we went to Lukas' place and we chilled for an hour. Then we went to bielefeldt and went shopping. Lukas and Klaus wanted to go to eat in McDonald's but there was no room so we went some restaurant and bought 1€ food and we ate McDonald's there. It was also really fun. After eating we went home for a bit and later that night we went to play lazertag. It was super awesome and it was like in a war movie but it was with electronic devices. Tarmo was last in both rounds. I was second at first round and sixth at second round. At first round some Klaus' friend won and Lukas won the second round. After the game we went home to chill.

Before lazertaging 

 

 

 

 On Sunday we woke up at 12 and we just chilled till 17 o'clock then we went to pizza restaurant with other germans and other estonians. After that we went gokarting with Tarmo, Klaus and Lukas. Me and Tarmo won. I was first and Tarmo was second so Estonia 1-0 Germany. After that we went home and just we just talked about everything with Klaus. He said that he's going to miss me and so will I. We went to sleep and we woke up at 4.30. We catched our buss at 5.30 and everyone's elses germans were waving to Estonians but mine and Tarmo's hosts were showing middle fingers. 
Our trip was super awesome.