Erkundungstour durch Schwabach / Discovering Schwabach

Der erste Tag begann mit einem Treffen in der Aula, bei dem Frau Schindler uns den Ablauf der folgenden Woche erklärte. Da wir uns besser kennenlernen sollten, bereiteten die Lehrer Kennenlernspiele, die allerdings in einem Chaos endeten, vor. Danach sind wir in die Stadt gelaufen, um uns Mittagessen zu holen und um uns auf der Kärwa zu vergnügen. Nachdem alle Mägen gefüllt wurden, erkundeten wir in einer Rallye Schwabach. In fünf Gruppen aufgeteilt, absolvierten wir die Rallye in gut zwei Stunden. Gegen 17:00 Uhr wurden wir in unseren normalen Alltag zurückgelassen und jeder durfte das machen, was er wollte. Wir waren wie viele andere auf der Kärwa in Schwabach und haben den Tag schön ausklingen lassen.

Zurückblickend kann man sagen, dass der Tag sehr schön war, um neue Freunde kennenzulernen und die Litauer einen Einblick von Schwabach bekommen haben.

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The first day began with a meeting in the auditorium, at which Mrs. Schindler explained the course of the following week to us. Since we should get to know each other better, the teachers prepared introductory games, which ended in chaos. Afterwards, we walked into the city to get lunch and to have fun at the fair. After all the stomachs were filled, we explored Schwabach in a rally. Divided into five groups, we completetd the rally in just two hours. Around 5 p.m. we were allowed to go back home or just stay in Schwabach as we did for example.

Looking back, you can say that the day was very nice, because we met new friends and the Lithuanians got an insight into Schwabach.

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Schwabach via Dresden - September 21st

Wednesday was the second day we were riding the bus. We started our trip from a small town near the German border in Poland at 9:00.
After a few hours, we reached Dresden. It was the first German city we stopped at. We had a 45 min. excursion with one of our teachers around old town, we even found the Lithuania Coat of Arms on two old buildings. After that, we had free time. When we got onto the bus, there were 5 hours of driving left.

When we arrived in Schwabach at 19:00, a lot of Lithuanians were excited about meeting their host families for the first time and Germans were excited too.

Justas´ photos

One of us, Justas Kasparavičius, is a really great photographer. He took some awesome photos of our trip to the Alps and also Dresden, where the Lithuanian bus stopped before coming to Schwabach. Below you can see our impressions of Walchensee, Karwendelgebirge, the Leutaschklamm and the cities of Dresden and Nürnberg.

Walchensee

Karwendel mountains

The gorge of Leutasch - Leutaschklamm

Bildunterschrift hinzufügen

View from Neuschwanstein Castle to the Alpsee

Neuschwanstein Castle

A work of art in Schwabach

Dresden

Dresden

Dresden

Dresden

Dresden

After hiking

Schöner Brunnen in Nürnberg

Trip to Regensburg

We started our trip  in Schwabach at 8:15. We drove for two hours – thankfully we had our earphones, so the trip went quickly.

In Regensburg our teacher showed us a cafe that used to be a princess school. GOTCHA! That‘s  not true. In the tour there were  three hidden lies and the group that guessed them correctly won Kinder chocolates.

One of the things we saw was the „Stone bridge“. There is a really interesting legend about the  Bruckmandl: a long time ago the architect was racing with the architect of the cathedral who will finish their creations first. He saw that he will lose, so he had to make a trade with the devil, who asked for three souls in exchange of building the bridge.

Then we went to a very breath-taking cathedral which took 600 years to build.

After the tour another teacher gave us one apple and said that we have to trade it into something more valuable. For example, one group got perfume, another one got a chocolate bar. The winners even got a pair of cute socks which are worth 15 Euros – that‘s crazy, right?!

Mini Golf, Soccer Golf and a lake

The actual plan for Wednesday was to drive to the Rothsee and go rowing in a Dragonboat there, but due to low water levels in the lake we weren't able to do so.

Instead we went to the Brombachsee, another lake in the Franconian Lake District.

We left Schwabach on a very cold morning at 8 o'clock and drove to Pleinfeld, a city near the Brombachsee.

When we arrived our teachers told us to form groups of five or six and asked us to decide if we want to play mini golf or soccer golf.

Soccer golf isn't too famous in Lithuania so especially the exchange students were very interested in it.

 

Afterwards we went into the bus again and drove to the lakeside, where we had a little picknick.

    A restaurant there opened for us and some students enjoyed a delicious Franconian lunch.

We arrived in Schwabach again at 3 pm and then had time to do whatever we want.

Some students went to a mall, others visited Nürnberg again and some went to a swimming pool.

Scavenger Hunt in Schwabach

After going to school and getting familiar with the German school system we went to the downtown of Schwabach.

 There kids had some free time to have lunch, take pictures and get to know the town they're in. After that, teachers announced the scavenger hunt. We got into groups of 8 or 9 pupils, we thought of funny group names and then we started to participate in the race.

Everybody had to solve riddles through the center of Schwabach, take funny and creative pictures, bring various stuff back. The team that collected the most credits won a Schnitzelsandwich.

We were chilling in the park, modeling, promoting books, being friendly with a hen and entertaining the horses in the fountain!

We had the greatest time learning something about the city while playing a game and getting to know each other better!

School Days...

On Tuesday we met in school at 08:45. When the Lithuanians came to the first meeting they saw their flag hanging in front of the school.

In the begining of the official welcome the music teacher Mr. Rösel played the clarinet.

After showing some pictures from the two years of the exchange programm the headmaster Dr. Kifmann officially welcomed the Lithuanians.

Then the "Singing Girls" sang two wonderful songs for us.

At 09:35 the Lithuanians took part in 3 lessons of their German exchange partners, which was really interesting for them. It was a really good experience for all because they saw differences between their lessons and ours. The biggest difference is that the Lithuanians have a break after every lesson not like in Germany.

Our Wonderful trip to the Gorge and Schloss Neuschwanstein

After a tasty breakfast in the youth hostel Mittenwald we started our trip to the Leutasch Gorge. 

We were all surprised by the lovely landscape and the river with all the nature. 

Although our hike was not as easy as we thought at the beginning (high pathes and long bridges over a deep gorge) and we were completety wet because of the very hard rain, we were all in a good mood. 

But we kept on going.

After a meal in Füssen we drove to the famous castle Schloss Neuschwanstein.

While some pupils were visiting a lake nearby the others were taking a closer look at the castle. Very tired we drove home to Schwabach.