Guten Tag (good day) to all! The days we, a group of 30 General Paper (GP) and Knowledge and Inquiry (KI) students, spent in Germany, accompanied by Madam Annie Yong, Miss Sabrina Lim, Miss Tan Jie Qi and our tour manager, Miss Cheyenne Lu, were good days indeed.
We began our exciting expedition in Berlin, visiting the iconic Reichstag building, the Brandenburg Gate, the Holocaust Memorial, the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, and of course the remains of the Berlin Wall. After an intense lesson on politics and history, we visited the John F. Kennedy School, a unique bicultural school, which offers both the German Abitur and the American high school diploma. We also learnt about Berlin’s investment into Research and Development (R&D) at the Adlershof – Germany’s leading science and technology park. This was followed by a cultural immersion at the Old National Gallery and the Pergamon Museum, located on the museum island, which was granted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) National Heritage Site status in 1999.
Departing from Berlin, we continued on to Nuremberg where we visited the Palace of Justice and the Documentation Centre, gaining insight into the Nuremberg Trial and life during the Nazi Regime. Our final destination was Munich, where we visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Germany. We ended our learning journey on a lighter note, visiting the BMW museum and leaving impressed with German technology. We even made one last school visit, to the Bavarian International School and made some new friends before we flew back to Singapore!
To prepare for this trip, we engaged in collaborative and independent research, sharing our knowledge with our peers, and sowing the seeds of curiosity. The nightly discussions during the trip allowed us to share and listen to one another’s opinions and thoughts in response to what we learnt in the day. We have not only acquired knowledge, but also important values and life skills, as well as friendships, which made the trip an even more memorable one.
Reported by Tan Hui Shan, 2AH
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