German Exchange

   Hopewell-Jena German American Exchange  

Laissa Alvarado-Juliane Weiss                          Nora Ames-Jenny Geissler

Charlotte &Catherine Bhaskar-Agnes Holtz                  Edward Wang-Elias Günther

Laura Feibush-Katrin Fechner                          Ian Garber-Benjamin Kipler

Christina Boyce-Jacino-Daniel Jacobs               Vivienne Gillmett-Carolin Franz

John Hallinger-Lucas Spilling                             Kelsey Johnson-Alexandra Paschka

Sara Miovic-Maria Wohlfarth                                       Terri Mohacsi-Sarah Harant

Kathleen Reside-Susanne Schlegel                                Kristen Starcher-Friederike Kammel

Chelsea San Filippo-Maria Naumann                            Shelby Veazey-Franziska Burgschat

Kyle Walsh-Johannes Rosenhan                                   Chryssi Youard-Martin Andrä     

Becca Wood-Julia Femel                                              Sijia Zhao-Max Grenzer                      

Topher Anuzis & Tom McKeon-Nils Schuhmacher

Marilyn Lilly-Carola Hartwig                                         Frank Flegeal-Angelika Kämmerer      

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An excerpt in German and one in English from a half hour discussion in the Hopewell Valley Central High School television studio in the fall of 2006 while the exchange students from Jena were visiting Hopewell Valley.  Exchange student Kyle Walsh directed his third level television class in this taping

 

 

Four montages playing at once show German-American Exchange students and places they visited.  Music by Ernst Abbe Gymnasium students at their graduation ceremony.  Hopewell Exchange student Catherine Bhaskar gives an overview of the trip.

 

 

Hopewell Exchange students Christina Boyce-Jacino, Chelsea San Filippo, Terri Mohacsi, Catherine Bhaskar and Chryssi Youard talk about our bicycle, train and subway tour of Berlin.  Music by Berlin street musicians.

 

 

We stay at a youth hostel near the eight hundred year old village of Sayda.  Students practice the dance they will do at the farewell party the night before leaving Jena, and make incense burners.  We tour Seiffen, a wood carving village near the Czech border. 

 
 

German exchange students Juliane Weiss and Max Grenzer talk about our welcoming party in Jena where we spent two weeks with our German Exchange partners.  Music by a band including Max Grenzer and teacher Frau Carola Hartwig.  Hopewell exchange students Kyle Walsh and Topher Anuzis also perform. 

 
 

Kathleen Reside talks about toilets in rest stops on the Autobahn.  Kathleen’s Jena exchange partner Susanne Schlegel tells about the evening spent dancing at a campground on the Baltic Sea.

 

 
 

Jena exchange students Max Grenzer and Susanne Schlegel talk about the campfire on the beach on the Baltic Sea.

 
Hopewell Exchange students talk about Hopewell Valley Central High School to an English class at Ernst Abbe Gymnasium (high school), and discuss differences between life and school in Hopewell Valley and Jena
 

Hopewell Exchange students Vivienne Gillmett and Laissa Alvarado talk about playing Sing Star at the home of the Franz family in Jena.  Shelby Veazey and Sijia Zhao compete against each other.

 
 

While staying in Jena we visited nearby cities including Weimar, and Erfurt.  Ed Wang talks about Dresden, and Laura Feibush talks about Buchenwald concentration camp.  Music by a Munich street quartet.

 
 

While spending a weekend in Dresden we visited the Saxon Switzerland.  Charlotte Bhaskar, Laura Feibush, Catherine Bhaskar and Shelby Veazey sing.  All the Hopewell exchange students sing a second song.

 

 
 

Hopewell Exchange student Charlotte Bhaskar talks about a very non traditional performance of Orestes at the outdoor theater in Jena

 
 

Hopewell exchange student John Hallinger talks about the farewell party on our next to last night in Jena.  Hopewell exchange students of the class of 2009 sing and dance while Kristen Starcher shows the Germans how to eat their fists.

 
 

Hopewell exchange students of the class of 2007 and 2008 perform Lukas Podolski at the farewell party on our next to last night in Jena.

 
 

All the Hopewell exchange students perform Cotton Eyed Joe at the farewell party on our next to last night in Jena.

 
 

 

The German and American exchange students say good bye to each other.

 

 
 

John Hallinger and Max Grenzer compete against each other in Sing Star.  We tour Munich, and Neuschwanstein castle in the south German state of Bavaria, and Salzburg in Austria.  Becca Wood and Tom McKeon talk about Munich.  Topher Anuzis is late after a lunch break and has to sing before he can get back on the bus.

 
 

Laissa Alvarado and Vivienne Gillmett talk about our visit to the Hofbräuhaus in Munich.  Topher Anuzis joins the dancers on stage.

 

 
 

On our last night in Germany we eat dinner outdoors at Munich’s Augustiner Keller.  Music by a Berlin street musician.

 

Jena teachers Frau Carola Hartwig and Frau Angelika Kämmerer, student teacher Achim, student Max Grenzer, and Hopewell German teacher Mrs. Marilyn Lilly write new lyrics to a Beatles song to be sung at the farewell party on our last night in Jena.

 
 

An early edit of the opening montage with music by a band performing at the Munich town hall square during an animal rights festival

 
 

 

An Italian street singer in Erfurt.  It sounds like he is singing in Portuguese.