HHS students experience Germany
“We sat in on math, English and biology classes,” Sittason said. “The math teacher taught in German and we listened but didn’t understand what was being said. It was different in the English class, however. The teacher spent a lot of time questioning us about American culture and lifestyles.”
“German students are bilingual,” she pointed out. “They are required to take English when they’re in the third grade and they’re encouraged to take Latin or French in the sixth grade. They’re also required to participate in two sports. But they don’t offer softball, baseball or football.”
But what appealed to her the most was the acceptance and respect the students showed for one another.
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“They don’t have fights with one another or violence of any kind,” she pointed out. “If they have personal issues, they leave them outside of school.”
Sittason said of several visits to tourist attractions the exchange students made she liked a visit to Berlin the most. “We saw the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie, where Germans slipped through the wall to get from one side of the city to the other.”
Weather was another noticeable difference between Alabama and the German mountain region.