Home on time!

Our trip home was an "adventure" which started when we arrived at Berlin airport on Wednesday afternoon to find our flight to Amsterdam had been cancelled.


Frau Zimmer negotiated long and hard while we all waited in anticipation. We finally left Berlin in two separate groups in two different directions - Frau Zimmer was off to Vienna and Herr Black to Frankfurt.


The two groups eventually met up again on Thursday evening in Kuala Lumpur just in time to get on our schduled flight back to Auckland ... home at last!!

Danke und Auf Wiedersehen!

It's time to say thank you and good bye to our new friends and host families. We have had a wonderful time in Germany and look forward to seeing the students and teachers from the EHG in Auckland next year.
Our group will meet at Berlin Tegel airport at 3pm. Take off is at 5.40pm (Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur - Auckland). We will arrive in Auckland on Friday at 10.50am. See you there.

Today was our first day back at school in Werder and we had one period with our hosts. We then all met up and walked to the train station to catch the train to berlin. We walked to the "Story of Berlin" exhibition and looked at what it was like to live back in the days of the World Wars and things. It is very very different to our lifestyles now, whereas back then they mostly only lived and survived in one room. We then went on a short tour through a bunker where 3600 people couldve lived throughout the cold wars if they ever got bombed. It was very cramped with beds all around and only a few toilets and only enough oxygen to last them a short period of time.

We then went shopping for like 2 hours!! we walked along the Kudamm and went to The "Ka De We" (biggest department stor in europe) and did some shopping. It was also one of the days that hadnt rained in aages, which was toll!!