{"id":1814,"date":"2019-05-07T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:15:41","slug":"wanderbus-wanders-to-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wanderbus-wanders-to-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"WanderbUS Wanders to Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

German Students Visit Washington DC, Meet Titans<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Regina Allen and Abigail St. Jean<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\tThe WanderbUS has started its tour across the continental U.S., visiting 51 schools in 48 states and its first stop is T.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tDifferent events and exhibits that revolve around the business and industry, politics, education, culture, and science of Germany are hosted in the WanderbUS. It is designed to emphasize the importance of transatlantic relation, as a part of the Deutschlandjahr USA, the Year of German-American Friendship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tGerman Teacher Charlotte Johnson initiated the event. \u201cI know some people at the Goethe Institute and they reached out to us because we are so close to Washington DC,\u201d said Johnson, \u201cI thought it would be a really good opportunity for our students to see why learning German is important and how they can use German in not only in their school life, but also in their careers later in life. I thought it would be a neat thing to do for kids outside of the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe bus is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe Institute, and it is supported by Berufsverband Deutscher Internisten (BDI). According to the Goethe Institute\u2019s website said that the Wanderbus is designed to \u201cboost your German, win good prizes, and experience Germany.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tStudents enjoyed the experience.  \u201cIt was an amazing experience. I had the time of my life. It was like a cute little museum on wheels. There was lots of German history and information. It was just really interesting and I feel like a learned so much. I am a big fan of the WanderbUS,\u201d  said Sophomore Michaela Mannel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSophomore Will Bavin said, \u201cI think it was a good experience to have German culture brought to us. It was nice to see the opportunities that Germany had and other countries that were there\u2026 I\u2019ve been to Germany and I can say that the stuff was very reminiscent of what I saw there. It was a good learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \t\u201cIt was really fun and I got to talk with German people, which is always interesting. I got to talk with this one lady who had come over from Germany with the bus and we talked about college options, including Germany and going abroad,\u201d said junior Julie Cizek. The bus is more suited for introductory German speakers or those with intermediate levels of the language. \u201cIt incorporated a lot of information that I already have done, like apps from the Goethe Institute, they had them on iPads and I already have some of them downloaded, so I was like \u2018Okay cool for some of the kids that hadn\u2019t experienced that,\u2019\u201d Cizek said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tGerman teachers Charlotte Johnson and Adam Levine agree that the bus was a wonderful experience and would be welcomed back. \u201cIdeally, I would probably wait a couple of years, so we get some more kids who have not seen it,\u201d said Levine. \u201cIt is an experience that you really need to do once and you learn a lot and you see all the things they can do with German\u2026 [Johnson and I] were discussing that it could actually be fun for us to bring it down to the middle schools, as a promo for German.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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