Sunday
Arrival in Leipzig
At the Leipzig train station, we met with our host families and parted ways to each of our new homes for that week.
Monday
Meeting & walk
On the next day, Monday, we started our first day at the school where each group of students presented facts about their school, their country and its history. After lunch we had the opportunity to visit the museum of East German secret service called “Runde Ecke”.
Tuesday
Visiting Berlin
Tuesday was the day we visited the capital of Germany, Berlin. There, we had a chance to visit a Wall museum where we learned a little bit more about the history of separation in Germany followed by a tour of a beautiful government building named Reichstag which houses the lower house of Germany’s parliament and free time walking trough the city.
Wednesday
Introduction to workshops
On Wednesday students split into 3 groups divided into 3 workshops chosen earlier (graffiti, hip-hop and music workshop).
Thursday
International game of billiards
We worked on mentioned workshops. The dancers started to come up with their own choreography, people from the graffiti workshop went outside and painted on canvases and a big school wall and the music group started to decide on what genre they want to write their music in.
Friday
Closing ceremony
On Friday, everyone gathered and each group presented what they were able to come up with. The graffiti group had an Exhibition of all the pieces everyone had made, hip-hop group performed a choreography made by them and last but not least, the musical group prepared their own song in which they sang and some of them even rapped!
Sobota
Goodbye & back to home
Saturday morning, we packed our stuff and met at the Leipzig train station. As we stood together and waited for the train, we reminisced of all the great things we got to experience in this week and we even talked about keeping in contact and seeing each other again. It was just a week but all of us enjoyed it throughly. We got reminded to not let differences separate us, on the contrary let them be something we will cherish and respect.
We met new people, made friends all around the world and learned how things work in different families. None of us are ever going to forget this experience.
Around afternoon we got to the Prague train station where it all began. There, we said goodbye and returned home to our own families.