Comenius Trip 4 - Day 5 and 6 -Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

The last two days Mark and Tristan spent most of their time with their host family and the other students. We met up at the school on Thursday as it was a public holiday in Germany. While the Coordinators held their project meeting students and other teachers participated in mini- olympic games. From Basketball to Football they played sport for about 3 hours! We had lunch at the school which was provided by the parents of the German students. We also contributed - many teachers from our partner countries brought some good from their respective countries. It was quite an international meal.



In the afternoon the students went bowling while the teachers returned to the hotel and took a boat trip down the river Ruhr to Kettwig.





It was a beautiful day and we finally got to soak up some sunshine. The view was spectacular...Kettwig is a lovely traditional German town where we had an hour to explore. From here we took a bus heading towards Sigi, our German coordinator's house and had our meal there. We walked thorugh the German countryside for about two hours which was beautiful. When we landed upon Sigi's house, we had a lovely catered meal of chicken, vegatbles and potatoes. Lecker!! After some singing and guitar playing we made our way back to the hotel.






On Friday we all met at the school for our lessons. Students participated in lessons while teachers taught. After the lessons we said goodbye to some of our colleagues and headed for Essen where we went to an old coal mine and a design museum. It was fantastic. It was amazing to see an old coalmine converted rather than torn down and replaced by a large modern building. The grounds were lovely and we had our lunch here a while later.





In the evening, we were hosted by one of the English teachers at the school where we had a BBQ - German sausages amoung other things! It was a fantasic trip.