Hi from Gracie

Hello Everyone,

Another update from Germany!

I have been very busy lately traveling, with a school trip to London and a Rotary trip to Amsterdam.

My trip to London a few weeks ago was with my schools advanced english course to study Shakespeare. During the week we spent in the heart of the city we went to several museums (including, the V&A, Science, Tate, National history and Sherlock  museums), we also got to see Buckingham palace, Big ben, Trafalgar Square, tower of London, Westminster Abby, St Paul’s Cathedral, tower bridge, and more. After site seeing we also had a boat tower down the Thames ending in Greenwich. For our Shakespeare study we attended two plays in the Globe theatre as well as a behind the scene tour and two lectures about Shakespeare and his works.

I was also lucky enough to spend a weekend with the my host clubs, Dutch sister club in Amsterdam with three exchange student friends. We saw three museums (Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh and modern museums), home-less football (soccer), and Anne Franks house. We also went on both a bike and boat tour of the city, it is definitely one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and completely different to any German City i’ve seen. 

In-between these trips I spent my free time visiting other schools in the area to talk about Australia as it is an exam topic in the english courses, it was fun to talk about home and listen to all the stereotypes they had about Australia, many of which on reflection are very true.

My next update will be after my Germany tour, which will take me to city like Berlin, Amsterdam, München, Rothenburg and about six others over the next two weeks!

Best wishes from Germany 

Gracie.