GERMAN –AMERICAN EXCHANGE

December 28-January 18

GOAL

-Create an international relationship with a German Montessori High School

Create a connection that will enable the school to participate in an ongoing exchange program with this school.

Allow for emersion into German culture that cannot be experienced through class or tourism

-Allow the students to experience German culture Travel Food Life Language Family

ROUGH ITINERARY : BERLIN - Leave from Bluegrass Airport on Dec 29th ( 1200$)arrive in Berlin, Germany on evening of 29th

-Stay in a Youth hostel while we take a German tour of Berlin on the 30th. The youth hostel experience is essential to understanding “travel” culture in Germany, Pfeffersbett, Doubles from

€24.50 Students will have the opportunity to go shopping in the market for food and cook at the hostel, or eat out and partake

in the international food culture of Berlin. Sachsenhausen (a concentration camp) is open on the 30th from 9 am to 3:30 pm. The train ticket is 3€ , 45 minute

ride/ walk.

-Celebrate New Years on the night of the 31st at Berlins world famous celebration. Students will go into downtown and see three of the Holocaust memorials that are in the city.

Before we go the students will have some reading to do on the artists who designed these memorials and Germanys Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

Normally people will find a spot on the river, sit on the capital lawn, watch the laser light show at the

Brandenburger Tor, enjoy carnival rides in the city center, or watch the amazing fireworks show.

-Leave for Dresden on the 1st. On the train the students will work on their Berlin projects.

ROUGH ITINERARY: DRESDEN -Leave Berlin on the 1st, train ride is ~ 3 hours (40€-80€, bus 16-20)

-Check-in to hostel (20€-40 €) depending on the type of room

- Baroque architecture at  Zwinger Palace

-Tour the city, go shopping, settle in, do reading on Opera house.

-2nd Students will have the day to explore, write their papers, read, etc.

-Go to the Semper Opera at 7pm and see Königskinder for 27.50 € per person

Write paper on experience citing readings.

--Leave by bus the morning of the 3rd for München (68-100 € )

ROUGH ITINERARY: MÜNCHEN -Arrive on the 3rd Check-in to hostel (20-30€)

- See more Baroque architecture, compare to Dresden -write paper

-4th We can go to Dachau (22 min train ride, 3 euros) 2.5 euros for audio tour or guided tour, in German and English

- paper on this (comparative)

For the remainder of the day they can tour the city, shop, relax, write papers.

5th We are picked up by host families and head to Penzberg!!

ROUGH ITINERARY: PENZBERG Neuschwanstein (huge beautiful castle that overlooks Alps) (1 hour drive from Penzberg

Winter Olympics (ski lessons, rent skis, rock climbing)

City Museum (Penzberg Mayor was murdered by SS officers because he wanted to surrender to Allies to save his city, lots of history here)

Going to school with host brother/ sister

Immersed in daily life

Big dinner last night with all the students (maybe parents)

Fly back from München with 2 stops, Amsterdam and Philadelphia

FUNDRAISING AND DONOR OPPORTUNITIES - magazine sales, car wash, lawn mowing, yard work in fall, selling German stars, Selling advent calendars…

Elks Club

German Society of Louisville

Marikkas

DAAD (The German Academic Exchange Service)

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