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After we had just put down our luggage, the bus took us to a kind
of "creative centre" called "Panaz" where we
met our Dutch friends for the first time that day.
The teachers informed the whole group more closely about the
course of the day and afterwards the German and Dutch pupils were
divided into four mixed groups of about eight pupils. Each group
participated in different workshops. While the first one was
practicing a certain dance, for example, group number two was
playing the "Jambe", a special kind of drum. But the
other groups were busy, too: they made a city tour combined with
finding answers to historical questions about Leeuwarden and went
shopping in town. After a period of 45 minutes, the groups changed
among one another so that everybody had the chance to experience
different and interesting things and to get to know the city of
Leeuwarden a bit more closely.
At 13:30, the four groups gathered at "Panaz" ,again,
to find out about what was going on for the rest of the day. Then
we had free time until 5 o'clock. We spent the time with preparing
salads, cakes and other delicious things for the collective dinner
and passed the rest of the time in our host families or just with
our exchange partners themselves.
At 5 o'clock, all Dutch and German pupils went back to the
school. Although all pupils had enjoyed the activities during the
day, the whole group felt a bit exhausted and especially hungry so
we decided to have dinner first and to go on with the "drama
workshop" afterwards.
One hour later, when everybody had the feeling to be ready, again,
we continued with acting in the assembly hall of the school. Newly
mixed groups presented different scenes they had invented
themselves in a period of 20 minutes. Afterwards, the Dutch pupils
and teachers and later on, the Germans, too, pretended to go by
bus and presented different moods of people which each "passenger"
had to adapt to.
At about 8 o'clock in the evening, we had free time, again.
Most pupils went to their host families, first and spent the
following hours in smaller pubs in and around the city of
Leeuwarden.
On Saturday morning, the majority of the pupils had breakfast
in the different families and went shopping in town until 12:30pm
when the Germans had to be back at the Dutch school to say goodbye
to their exchange partners. At 1 o'clock pm, the bus started
moving back to Aurich and an interesting exchange visit got to its
end.
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