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October 2, 2014 To be up and about at 5:00 a.m to reach the railway station! A bus to catch with our exchanges and teachers, what excitement!! Four days in Berlin! Wow! First halt en route was the Buchenwald Labour Camp, one of the largest concentration camps in Germany. Buchenwald – the forest of Beech… Continue reading DARMSTADT DIARIES: A VISIT TO BUCHENWALD LABOUR CAMP

6 Oct. 2014 Berlin woke up to cloudy weather but we brought sunshine to it with our big ,bright,smiles! Quickly after having a buffet breakfast at the Industrie Palast youth hostel, the German and Indian groups parted. The Indian group went to the ‘Frei Universität’ by tram and got to know about the university, the… Continue reading DARMSTADT DIARIES: A VISIT TO THE BUNDESTAG AND FREIE UNIVERSITY

October 8,2014 It all started as usual , coming to school, sitting together and discussing what we did the previous day with our exchanges. Like everyday we had a meeting with the teacher for 10 minutes, making sure everything was fine and working smoothly. After the meeting got over everyone went to their allotted clubs.… Continue reading DARMSTADT DIARIES: WORKING ON THE PROJECT

15 German students and their teachers Mrs. UlrikeWolf and Mrs. Susanne Hughes were accorded a warm welcome by the parents and students of Vivek High School. The German delegation will be working with the Indian students and teachers on the Project titled’Understanding Our partitions and expressing it through art’ The Indian students had also visited… Continue reading Chandigarh Diaries: German delegation from Darmstadt arrives in Chandigarh

A delegation of International Students visited and interacted with the faculty members, students and research scholars of the Department of Gandhian and Peace Studies. The Chairperson of the Department of Gandhian and Peace Studies, Dr. Manish Sharma and Dr. Parvinder Singh, the Controller of Exams received and welcomed the delegates on behalf of the University… Continue reading Chandigarh Diaries: Indo German students visit Panjab University

The students of the Indo – German Exchange project were privileged to have a first hand account from eminent senior citizens of Chandigarh . The august panel included Brig. Jagjit Singh, Brig. Gobindar Singh & Mrs. Devi Singh, Mr. Amrik Singh Sandhu & Mrs . Sukh Bans Kaur. The senior citizens recalled the horrors of… Continue reading CHANDIGARH DIARIES: VETERANS REMINISCE ABOUT PARTITION

SEEHEIM SNAPSHOTS………. Oct 3, 2015 The Journey begins….. Passports check, cell phone check, wallet check, tickets check! All in! Four a.m at the ISBT , Chandigarh to catch the Volvo bus to IGI Airport in New Delhi.A bunch of super excited teenagers with their teacher coordinators were on their way to Seeheim -Jugenheim Germany.After the… Continue reading SEEHEIM SNAPSHOTS

SEEHEIM SNAPSHOTS………. Oct 5, 2015 SCHOENES HEIDELBERG A train journey to the picturesque romantic town of Heidelberg was one of the highlights of our exchange. Thirty two Indian and German students accompanied by our teachers reached the Youth Hostel in Heidelberg which was to be our home for the next two days. We could not… Continue reading SEEHEIM SNAPSHOTS: Schoenes Heidelberg

SEEHEIM SNAPSHOTS………. Oct 6, 2015 WORKSHOPS IN HEIDELBERG It was a different experience indeed to have a workshop in the Youth Hostel in the chilly October morning in Heidelberg. The students made freeze frames, did some body and movement exercises in the morning. In the evening we went to see an EndLish movie” A Royal… Continue reading SEEHEIM SNAPSHOTS: WORKSHOPS IN HEIDELBERG