Willkommen!

The students met their host families and the tech school's director read a statement in English to welcome us to Darmstadt and their college, which is Campus Peter-Behrens-Schule. Today, we visit Friedrich List Schule (http://www.fls-da.de/). These colleges provide technical training in culinary, office practices, printing, carpentry trades, etc. Different than our system, their students work with the company two days a week and attend their classes three days a week. Most programs are two or three years.

Today

Departure day!!

We will post pics and moments of our journey! Thanks, James, the fearless group leader, for your work and effort. We begin!!

Germany! Switzerland! Italy!

The Germany exchange group is preparing to take off, and we are very excited about the opportunity and the possibilities. I look very much forward to seeing Armin and Danielle as well as their community and college. Ater spending a week or so in Darmstadt, we will bus through the Swiss Alps and arrive at Imperia, Italy. Check out the GoogleMap: http://maps.google.com/maps?rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&gl=us&saddr=darmstadt+germany&daddr=imperia,+italy&dirflg=d&geocode=KdnNcxFkcL1HMfDFsClQQyIE;KfdcSh-PbtISMQDMPEd95gUE&ei=cWK-T4aMIIeHsgKPypEf&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ-A8wAA.

So... by way of Madison, Detroit, and Frankfurt, we will arrive in Darmstadt. We will depart Tuesday morning, so many of us on the excursion will try to keep our loyal followers updated to the events, scenes, experiences and friendships as merrily we roll along.

I'll have some students post once we arrive.