German Language Tour

Tag Vierzehn (Day Fourteen) by Jessica Holland

Hallo Ihr Lieben,

We had to get back into the routine of waking up at 7 am for school after our sleep-ins over the weekend As usual, we woke up to our regular breakfast and got ready for our last few days of language school, this was our last half day

Looking back on last Monday at language school, you can tell just how much all of us have improved our understanding and pronunciation of German words We looked over the text we got on Friday and talked over what was stated in the text with a few prompt questions that were on the board to help us write some notes about it. We also did a few other worksheets and one sheet was creating the correct questions to the answer that was given, then depending on if you got sheet A or B you paired up and quizzed each other After our lesson, we all had our lunch and then head off to do a bit of shopping in our free time we had

Firstly we all made our way to ‘Destination 1’ which was Bikini Berlin which was a nice mall. We had an hour in there to shop and look around and there were even monkeys in the zoo out the back! After our time was up we made our way down the street to some other shops like the Berlin souvenir shops, Lego, Wrangler and more. We all met up at the Haribo shop which was so big and most of us got a supply of lollies there Then we made our way back to Inlingua where we met our guide for the East Berlin Wall guide

The Italian guide took us on the U2 to Gleisdreieck and then U3 to the end of the line. As we went along the wall looking at the different art pieces on the wall he told us some of the art piece's significance and message from the war For example, he talked about the image of the two politicians, Russian leader Leonid Brezhnev and East Germany’s SED party chairman Erich Honecker, and how they shared a kiss signifying a kind of socialist greeting. He also talked about the river and the confusion of where the border was and shared a story about it which was very interesting to hear In the story, there was a little boy who accidentally fell into the river but no one could save him even the soldiers because it would look like they were fleeing East Germany and would therefore get shot, so the boy unfortunately passed and that’s when they started making a border in the river. More artworks depicted so many different aspects of this time and was very interesting to learn more about the wall

When we got back we had a bit of time to relax before heading down to dinner which was exciting because the chips were back!! It was hamburgers and chips with pudding for dessert which was ‘sehr lecker!’

Bis morgen!