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Web Site Chronicles Current German Exchange
Since they arrived on October 6, nineteen German students and two teachers, Mr. Joachim Sprotte and Mr. Michael Kirchgässner, have been busy, as this Web site suggests. They've attended a variety of Upper School classes as well as German classes in the Lower and Middle schools. They've also participated in a McDonogh scavenger hunt, a nature hike with science teachers, a poetry session, and a baseball lesson. On October 16 they accompanied Upper School students studying German to Western Maryland College for workshops offered on the occasion of the annual celebration of German-American Day.
Later in the month, the exchange group and their McDonogh partners will have the chance to explore various sites together in Baltimore. They will also be taking overnight trips on their own to points of interest in the mid-Atlantic area.
This second half of the direct German exchange program was preceded by a visit of twenty McDonogh students to the Faust Gymnasium for 3½ weeks last summer. They were accompanied by German teachers Buck Lyon-Vaiden and Marie-Helene Field.
McDonogh students stayed with German families, visited classes and reported on various aspects of American life, attended a combination celebration of graduation and prom, and took day trips to nearby Alsace, France and to Grindelwald for a spectacular cable car ride and hike in the Swiss Alps. Their German hosts also accompanied them on a trip to Munich, where everyone had a chance to visit old and new sites and explore the city individually.
The Faust Gymnasium is a college preparatory school of about 1,200 students in grades 5-13. It is located in Staufen, about 10 miles south of the old university city of Freiburg, in the extreme southwestern corner of Germany, along the foothills of the Black Forest. The school is named after the legendary Dr. Faustus, the alchemist in the Middle Ages about whom literary and musical works were later written. It was here in Staufen that Dr. Faustus died as a result of an explosion in his laboratory.
The exchange is offered to Upper School German students every other year, the next being in 2003.
Since they arrived on October 6, nineteen German students and two teachers, Mr. Joachim Sprotte and Mr. Michael Kirchgässner, have been busy, as this Web site suggests. They've attended a variety of Upper School classes as well as German classes in the Lower and Middle schools. They've also participated in a McDonogh scavenger hunt, a nature hike with science teachers, a poetry session, and a baseball lesson. On October 16 they accompanied Upper School students studying German to Western Maryland College for workshops offered on the occasion of the annual celebration of German-American Day.
Later in the month, the exchange group and their McDonogh partners will have the chance to explore various sites together in Baltimore. They will also be taking overnight trips on their own to points of interest in the mid-Atlantic area.
This second half of the direct German exchange program was preceded by a visit of twenty McDonogh students to the Faust Gymnasium for 3½ weeks last summer. They were accompanied by German teachers Buck Lyon-Vaiden and Marie-Helene Field.
McDonogh students stayed with German families, visited classes and reported on various aspects of American life, attended a combination celebration of graduation and prom, and took day trips to nearby Alsace, France and to Grindelwald for a spectacular cable car ride and hike in the Swiss Alps. Their German hosts also accompanied them on a trip to Munich, where everyone had a chance to visit old and new sites and explore the city individually.
The Faust Gymnasium is a college preparatory school of about 1,200 students in grades 5-13. It is located in Staufen, about 10 miles south of the old university city of Freiburg, in the extreme southwestern corner of Germany, along the foothills of the Black Forest. The school is named after the legendary Dr. Faustus, the alchemist in the Middle Ages about whom literary and musical works were later written. It was here in Staufen that Dr. Faustus died as a result of an explosion in his laboratory.
The exchange is offered to Upper School German students every other year, the next being in 2003.