If you know my daughter, please don’t tell her I wrote this story about her in high school. All children lie to their parents a little. No matter how virtuous they are there is a fib here and there. My child is no different.…
Tag Archives: German exchange
Day 164 May 5, 2023 Brenna or Brunnen?
When learning a language people find helpful ways to remember words. Patrice who was our German teacher was very good at finding those connections. Another key factor is the repetition of words and language. Patrice understood this and was always reminding kids of words and phrases and their connections.…
Day 163 May 4, 2023 French Monkeys
I promised stories about French Monkeys all the way back on day 131 of the blog. Here goes… In Germany, we travel around the region for fun and history. One of the lesser-known attractions is a Monkey Park called La Montagne des Singes.…
Day 162 May 3, 2023 Panhandling
Panhandling seems to be a problem everywhere. While we were in Strasbourg, France we saw the in the tourist areas. Along with people walking around selling junk for exorbitant prices. You just had to pay attention. The teachers were having a cup of coffee while students explored the La Petit France area of town.…
Day 161 May 2, 2023 Problems Abroad
Our goal of the German Exchange was to explore history as well as modern life in Germany. It was to support our German language program at Rangeview. We always spent time traveling the region and extended into France. Our trips to Strasbourg were always an education of history and modern times.…
Day 160 May 1, 2023 Hike On The Beach
This is a story that I haven’t told often. It is in keeping with my goal to not appear on the six o’clock news as a teacher. The exchange that my daughter was a part of had many different adventures. You have already heard a couple but now the one that could get me fired.…
Day 159 April 28, 2023 Berlin
I had a post about our first trip to Berlin earlier but I want to add a couple of details I didn’t include in the first post. The unexploded bomb that delayed the train was just the beginning. We got to see the era of capitalism that has exploded worldwide.…
Day 125 March 10, 2023 – Spring Break Bonus Bodensee
Bodensee
I am adding blog posts from my trips to Germany for the exchange. This story is about our trip to the Bodensee 2014
Thursday morning we left for the Bodensee with all of our students and our hosts. It was an experience in public transportation.…
Day 124 March 9, 2023 Struthof Camp
Of the trips I have taken, this was the hardest day. We went to the Struthof Concentration camp. Prisoners here worked at a quarry about a kilometer away. The post was short but the pictures were more powerful. I have added a link to the website for further information.…
Day 123 March 8, 2023 A German Walk
I love to walk and enjoy nature and sites. I was to learn that a walk in Germany means something completely different. Here is a post I did in 2009:
June 22, 2009, By: Randy Mills I was informed this morning of what is considered a short German walk.…
Day 121 March 6, 2023 Prague
Another blog post from the 2009 Exchange. This was a visit to Prague in the Czech Republic.
July 06, 2009, By: Randy Mills
Prague is an ancient and historic city. We roamed buildings that had their origin in the 880s. A couple of hundred years before the Vikings traveled toward North America.…
Day 120 March 3, 2023 Bodensee
Another post from the 2009 German Exchange about our trip to the Bodensee:
June 16, 2009 By: Randy Mills: Thursday morning we left for the Bodensee with all of our students and our hosts. It was an experience in public transportation. We first caught a train to Friedrichshofen to stay at a Jungendherberge.…
Day 119 March 2, 2023 School Days
We are getting to the end of the quarter and like the students, I am going to recycle some stuff. This is a post from our first German exchange talking about the school.
Our next big adventure was to attend school with the students.…
Day 117 February 28, 2023 My Overseas Office
As an American teacher, I am used to having an office for my job. I loved my desk in the business office and it was a place to relax and not be stressed for a short time. It was very important until it was taken from us a couple of years ago.…
Day 116 February 27, 2023 Exchange Aurora
The way we did the exchange when we started was that the German group from Heimschule Lender visited us in April/May for three weeks, and then we went there starting in June. It was a very busy few weeks, but it was a great adventure.…
Day 116 February 27, 2023 My Best Friend
The relationships you develop over the course of an exchange are lasting. Dawn and I have developed a relationship with our German counterparts over fifteen years. It is a bond that goes beyond just partners for academic activity. We have spent a great deal of time with many teachers over the years but we have a family that we are especially close to and have contact with until this day.…
115 February 24, 2023 Exchange Hosting
The Greman Exchange program has been a highlight of my teaching career. Your first question might be if I know the language. The simple answer is no. It is much more complicated than a simple answer. I could survive but not for too long.…
German Exchange – June 17, 2009
Monday June 15th found us in Strasbourg, France. It is a unique town on the Rhine River and has alternated between France and Germany for centuries. Again we had the chance to ride the trains into France. It was a short hop and didn’t take much time at all.…