On Monday (9/19) the UMD students visited Berufsfachschule für Sozialwesen (Professional School for Social Workers) in Berlin Charlottenburg. The purpose of this meeting was to take our students out of their daily English-speaking environment and to offer them an opportunity to make acquaintance with local students of their age.
The meeting started with individual introduction of 8 American and 10 German students. As ice breaker, all students played a Bingo game while the German students asked questions in English and UMD students in German. The first four winning students received prizes.
Then, students matched with their speaking partners by name lottery, started their first conversation and exchanged contact information for future meetings through the semester. The UMD students are encouraged to visit their speaking partners' school, living district, or family. They also can invite these German students to FU, to their host family, or to their apartment quarter.
Through this acquaintance, our students will have the opportunity to meet more German locals, to participate in a reading club, sport group or a volunteer organization. In addition, they can closely observe the German culture and collect materials for their semester report. Hopefully, this initial meeting will flourish into interesting cultural encounters and develop into productive experiential-learning explorations.
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