Veel üks saksa piirkonnaleht avaldas artikli meie külaskäigust

Kohalik piirkonnaleht Westfalen-Blatt avaldas samuti artikli meie külaskäigust Wertherisse.

Student's exchange in Germany by Kadri Kalve

Some time has past from my return to Estonia from Germany but the warm feeling of  that trip is still in me. It was an unforgettable adventure and certainly a really fun memory to remember.

The whole trip started with a long drive to Riga. Driving with bus doesn't sound that exciting but with right people everything's fun. After the long ride came the thing that had scared me the most in the whole trip - airport. Soon it turned out that it's not that scary at all and the flight went very well.

I had a change to take a picture from the plane window while flying.

  
And then finally I was in Germany. I had never been so far away from home. Actually it wasn't that different from Estonia in the beginning but when we got closer to Werther everything got a lot more interesting.

First of all the sight was so beautiful, you could see the mountains covered with woods in the distance and it was really beautiful. Roads were quite narrow and everything was a bit old-fashioned but I absolutely loved that. All the houses looked really lovely and reminded me a bit of old fairy tales. After two hours ride we arrived at Werther. It's a gorgeous little town. Well maybe it wasn't that tiny but it just felt very compact with it's narrow streets and closely standing houses.

A picture of Werther.

In the evening I met my host family. I was hosted by Emilys family, or as she preferred it Emmi. Already on our firts chat we found out that we have very much in common- love for the same movies,  drawing passion, similar clothing style and so on and on.

Emmi had a very lovely family. Her mother was named Natascha and she was probably one of the kindest person I have ever met. Her dads name was Christian, he had a great sence of humour and could tell lots of interesting stories. Then there was Emmi's brother Oliver whose englsih was surprisingly good for kid who was under ten years old. 

Their home was located in Spenge which in Germany is considered as a village, but in Estonia we would probably call it a borough. Nevertheless it was a nice village. The house I stayed at was nice and felt cozy. I felt comfortable like I was at my own home.

On the next day we visited the Werther Evangelisches Gymnasium. It was really interesting to see the school because it was all quite different from my school. First of all there were so many students I can't even remeber how many but all the parallels of Emmi's class had more students than our whole school. In the afternoon we went to the Böckstiegel museum. The museum was about Peter August Böckstiegel who was a local artist who mainly focused on impressionism. I actually kind of liked that museum because some of the art was quite beautiful. The funnest part was when we were allowed to draw one picture of the artist by ourself. 
In the evening me and Emmi started watching movies, it was really fun. We also talked a lot about all kind of things.

Bielefeld's old town.

On the third day we went to Bielefeld which is the closest big city to Werther. We had a tour in the old city where I saw many very beautiful buildings. I liked the way Bielefeld's old town looked it was really picturesque. After the tour in old town we went to a local history museum. We had a really great guide. He talked about many interesting things and made joke after joke. We could even see some old linen making machinery work wich was very impressive. At end of the tour I was even a little sad because there were so many other interesting things in the museum I wish would have had time to get to know to and what our guide could have talked about. After that we had some time for shopping and walking around the city. There weren't any big shopping malls so it was quite hard to find cool shops.
Then came the weekend which we were supposed to spend with our host families. Me and Emmis decided to go to Wether again so she could show me some things that I hadn't seen yet. First palce where we went was a really astonishing shop called The Underground Factory. I absolutly loved that place. It was a unique shop and there is nothing like it in Estonia. After that we did some more shopping and then went to visit the Sparrenburg Castle. It was a huge fortress with a hihg tower and big walls. The castle has a system of underground passages but they could only be explored from April to October. We went home for the lunch time but after that we dicided to go to some near 

This is the cool shop called The Underground Factory that Emmi showed me.

Me and Emmi at the top of Sparrenburg's castle.

located shopping mall. At the end of the day we were quite tired.
On Sunday I slept til it was twele o'clock. After a wholesome breakfast we decided to visit some art museums. First one was art museum called Marta. There was a exhibition called "Beautiful and Brutal" it sounded really cool but actually it was just some bit confusing modern art. Second art museum that  we visited was located in Bielefeld. There was exhibition consisting of many different works from many different German female artists. I absolutly loved that exhibition. In the evening we had a dinner in a restaurant to crown the great time I had in Germany. And then on Monday started the long way back to home. 

This is the art museum called Marta with the exhibition called "Beautiful and Brutal".

It certainly was a great trip and I am still so thankful for it. I'll have good memories to remember for the rest of my life. I can't wait to see Emmi again and welcome her to Estonia so I could make her stay as memorable as mine.

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.