- Welcome dinner with my host family and Experiment e.V. Betreuerin in my Heikendorf home.
- Living history day at the Haithabu Viking Museum.
- Having Heinrich Heine Schule friends over for food, fun and dancing!
- Meeting up with my 5th grade exchange partner while in Berlin.
- Walking up the 768 stairs for the slightly cloudy view of the surrounding city from the Ulm Minster.
- Staying with my 8th grade exchange family, touring the Ludwigsburg Palace, walking distance from their home!
- Touring the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart with my middle school German teacher and her daughter.
- Enjoying Lyon's Sunday morning market, praline brioche, beautiful cathedrals and Roman ampitheatre and aqueducts with my parents friends as the ultimate tour guides. Then traveling with them to Paris where they provided fun walking/Metro/bus tours showing us many of the Paris attractions (including the Louvre).
- Shopping at the Ritter Sport factory and touring the Jacques Chocolate factory.
- Seeing the GOP Variete "La Luna" show at the Kaiser Wilhelm Palace theatre in Bad Oeynhausen.
- Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland, stumbling on a movie filming, an lunchtime organ concert after walking the St. Michaelis tower.
I had an AMAZING Easter break which started off with my parents arriving in Hamburg March 25. During their two week stay, besides seeing local area highlights with my host family, we toured Berlin, Ulm, Ludwigsburg, Bonn, Bad Oeynhausen, Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, Lyon and Paris, France and the area around Liege, Belgium. Some of the highlights:
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Deborah
6/10/2016 09:25:29 am
You had me at praline brioche :). What a perfect culmination of your language immersion and school life experience !!
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6/27/2016 12:43:51 pm
Hi Elizabeth,
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aboutElizabeth began German immersion at Waddell Language Academy and continued at South Meck World Language Magnet. She is spending her senior year in Heikendorf, Germany as a CBYX scholar. Archives
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