Erasmus Project - C3 Activity Program.pdf
Mobility in Germany for the project "You are what you eat"
From 7th March to 10th March 2022 the students of the Europe class 9E of the IGS Bertolt Brecht in Schwerin played host to eight students and two teachers from Czech Republic, North Macedonia and Portugal. After more than two years of planning, the mobility could finally take place.
Due to current local restrictions that still exist, our guests were not allowed to stay in host families. With regard to the goals of the mobility - getting to know new people, the German, or rather northern German culture as well as deepening the knowledge regarding healthy nutrition by co-operating - the mobility was a success.
On Monday, the students of the 9E as well as our guests were surprised by our headmistress Mrs. Arndt with an English speech and warmly welcomed by our superintendent Mrs. Debold.
To break the ice and show our hospitality typical German bread was served with some herb butter on the side.
After that all students were given the possibility to get to know each other a little better with small getting to know activities, such as "Find someone who...". This was followed by a scavenger hunt in our school in small groups. After a tasty lunch, half the students started on another scavenger hunt in small groups through Schwerin while the others walked to the city's castle to have a guided tour through the castle grounds. All of this was accompanied by a lot of sunshine.
On Tuesday, the actual project work started. Knowing their skills or wanting to improve some of them, all the students were able to decide in advance which workshop they wanted to join. Four workshops were offered: producing a cooking show, outside cooking over a fire, building raised garden beds for the school garden and doing some plant work in our inner schoolyard. While the first two groups went to the market or the supermarket to buy the necessary products for the dishes, the other two groups went to a local hardware store buying plants and the necessary equipment for building. 
Back at school, the hard work started. The different parts of the cooking show were filmed with the help of Mr. Neumann.
The vegetables were pealed and cut for the cooking over the open fire, the raised garden beds were built by closely following the given instructions and the soil that was needed for planting was carried in buckets to the inner schoolyard or put in the raised garden beds when they were finished.
After so much hard work everybody had earned a delicious lunch: For regaining strength everybody had a serving of vegetable stew with a German "bratwurst" and a roll. For dessert everybody could enjoy homemade cakes provided by some students from the class 9E. Well fed and invigorated, the whole group went to the Old Market in the city center where they boarded the "Petermännchen" that took them around the city for an informative city tour on the history and architecture of Schwerin.
Wednesday morning was also a day for cultural exchange and international communication. In the early morning the students visited a local farmer's market. The German students showed their guests the different fruit and vegetables offered and the guests were to decide which products they deem weirdly looking, difficult to pronounce or simply unknown.
These products were bought and at school different groups first researched and then presented some background information on these products, e.g. how or where they grow and which funny sports activity they need to do to burn 100 grams of that product. 
Of course, the more courageous students were also invited to try some of these products, getting a taste of sweet potatoes, kumquats, pomegranate seeds or a parsley root. After that everybody went to the castle again to have lunch in the castle restaurant that offers a very nice historic ambiance. 
After a delicious meal and some nice conversations, the groups from Monday either participated in the scavenger hunt through Schwerin or joined the guided tour through the castle grounds depending on what they have not done yet on Monday.
The highlight of the week was supposed to be a trip to Hamburg on Thursday to show our guests a typical northern German Hanseatic city. After arriving in Hamburg by train the trip started off with a boat tour around Hamburg harbor. 
From the "Landungsbrücken" everybody went back to the "Chilehaus" where the chocolate museum is located. Inside, the students were able to explore the way from a cocoa bean to a chocolate bar entwined with a lot of different tastings as well as the possibility to actually make their own chocolate. 
A shared meal at the food court of the "Europapassage" was the end of the trip and all went back to Schwerin by train. In front of the train station everybody said goodbye and one could witness some heartfelt goodbyes between some host students and our guests. This proves that new friendships developed and the goals of the mobility mentioned at the beginning were met.