Tuesday was our first day in school, which actually was very interesting. It was nice and I understood almost everything. Sometimes I couldn´t say what I wanted to say because I couldn’t think of the word but my friends helped me out. I learned something about the history of England and I was really impressed. My tip for you: Stay positive, because school isn´t bad. Actually, it was fun. All the teachers were kind and they gave us the feeling that they were happy having us there. (Charly)

The teachers were all native English speakers and the lessons were only in English, because the teachers couldn’t speak any German at all. In our first lesson, we had a teacher who told us the story of Eastbourne. For me, it was a little boring, because she kept talking and everybody had to listen to her. Okay, sometimes she asked some questions like: “What does that mean in German?“ or she described something in English and we had to say the English word but it seemed that her lesson was for listening. In other lessons we could talk a little more English because the teachers sometimes asked us for our opinion, or we had to tell them something about ourselves. In another lesson, we played the game “Stadt, Land, Fluß” but with English words. In this lesson, I thought that the teacher only played this game because she had no idea what else she could do with us. All in all, I think school was redundant because we have better English class in Germany. (Lioba)