Hamburg-Vigo Exchange 2016- 2019

Currywurst (sausage with curry) We were in Hamburg in "The Europapassage". "The Europapassage" is a big mall where many shops are. Especially there is a floor called "Food Sky", where a lot of restaurants are located. The German students showed us the "Curry Wurst". The "Curry Wurst" is traditional food from Hamburg and tastes extremely good. Before we ate it, we thought it would not fit with each other. After trying it, it was surprisingly tasteful. Schokostreusel (chocolate sprinkles) Even saying to put chocolate sprinkles on a bun sounds weird, trying it, sounds even worse. The Spanish exchange students refused to eat it. Then there was a victim called Leana. She was courageous enough to try it. Her face said everything! It was delicious. Schwarzbrot (black bread) The healthy option for normal bread is black bread. The Germans call it regular bread. It has a lot of proteins and a sticky texture. It tastes how it sounds: borin

Hi! We´re Alexandra, Annika, Julia and Natalia. On monday we spent a lovely day in the City Center of Hamburg. First we all went to the International Maritime Museum of Hamburg which was really interesting! We learned a lot of facts about the history of the harbour. After that we walked to the Underground Station "Überseequartier" which is near the museum in the Hafencity. We had lunch at a burger Restaurant named "Jim Block" next to the Gänsemarkt. Everyone ate a huge burger and it was sooo delicious. In the afternoon we were relaxing next to the river Alster and had a Virgin Colada. Afterwords we took a lot of nice pictures in front of the council in the evening light. We went by train to "St.Pauli" and had a short view at the Dom which is an amusemant park in Hamburg. Sadly it first opens on friday the 23rd March. :( Because of that we just walked along the famous street Reeperbahn and saw a outdoor stage where for example the announcement of Germany&#

The Rollercoaster The Rollercoaster is a restaurant in the south of Hamburg, southern of the Elbe. The really good and exquisite food comes to your table by rail, after you ordered by tablet. Sometimes even with a sparkler. We went there with 10 persons. Exept from another branch in Dresden, this restaurant is unique. The "Schokofondue" On sunday afternoon, we went to Pauline's to eat the so-called "Schokofontäne". It's a fondue of melted chocolate in form of a fountain, where you dip fruit in. It exploded twice. That was the second time. The first time, we took the tablecloth away, expecting it not to happen again, but... The "Tropenaquarium" Monday, we were at the "Hagenbeck's Tropenaquarium". It's part of the zoo here in Hamburg.  That's Steve. He's a manta ray.

Satuday 17/3/18 In the morning we woke up at 09:00 AM and we went to see a football match with Sebastian and Ana. After  that we took the train to Hamburg. Once there we went to the Europa Passage mall where we ate some pizza and visited some shops. After that we went on a tour through the City Center, and we finally stopped at Starbucks for a coffee before going home.                                                                         While we were waiting for the train we decided to go to watch a Performance that was taking place  school's theatre that evening. It's title was BLIND. After that, to end the day we returned home, tired but happy.

We have had many bad experiences with bikes and stoplights, they are horrible!! The first time we crossed the street the green light turned red in a few seconds, we thought we were going to die because of the cars.  And then, the bikes slow down going backwards so we crashed with a car in the middle of the street because of  the lack of knowledge. Really funny to see but not to experience. The cursed bike (purple one, the other one was OK)

On Monday, we tried some different kinds of chocolates and German candy. We went to "Edeka", a German supermarket, to buy them. Tara showed me all the kinds of candy that she likes and are not available in Spain. She told me that her favourite one works as if it was some kind of "drug": the first time it's good, but it doesn't make you addicted. However, the second time you try it, nobody can stop you from eating it all up. Tara was right. Both of us are vegetarian, and it turns out that Germany is "The Vegetarian Paradise" for gummy bear lovers. We had already tried the ones that Tara's parents gave us the previous night, so we bought a different kind. Just after that, we went home and had a nice talk while we were eating all the candy. We did not even realise that we were almost finishing them all; then, Tara's mum called us for dinner, and we were already full (of candy :)). One of Tara's favourite candy is "Knusperflocken&q

Through the exchange we noticed a lot of cultural differences between German and Spanish people in general:   Germans (Spanish view): Wake up early in the morning. The school starts earlier than in Spain and they have more lessons. They are always in a hurry, for example they eat and walk very fast. They eat a lot and they don´t have timetables to eat. They don´t have to show their tickets on the public transport. They have to pay for extra sauces. It seems like they talk in an agressive way. They don´t wear their shoes when they are at home. Spanish (German view): The relationship with their teacher is closer. They clap when they are laughing. They study the night before an exam. They go to bed late. It takes them more time to eat and walk. They eat less and for breakfast they only have a coffee or cookies.  The conclusion we draw of this experience is that even though there are some differences we had a lot of fun and we got along very well. We all enjoyed our

When we arrived in Germany, we thought everything was going to be sausages and beer. But NO!!! There is more food and it tastes delicious! It always looks perfect and sublime. We tried Bretzel with cheese and ham, Quarkbällchen , Franzbrötchen (everyone loved them), Spritzlinge and Kürbiskernbrötchen . But we didn't try sausages. Awful!!!!!! And of course, we drank still water because the "normal" water in Germany is sparkling and it's horrible. Bretzel with cheese Quarkbällchen before Quarkbällchen after

On Thursday we left  from our highschool at 13:30. We went  to Porto by bus to take our first plane. It was delayed, so we had to run when we arrived in Munich to get our second and last flight to Hamburg. We arrived there at 11:00 pm and all of our families were waiting for us at the airport. They gave us a big welcome and took us home. On our first day in Hamburg we met in the high-school cantine, our German buddies gave us a fantastic present: some beautiful Erasmus T-Shirts, which we wore for the rest of the day. Next, we went on a gymkhana throughout the city of Hamburg. Despite the freezing weather conditions, we had a great time together. Then we went back home and headed down to a party we were invited to with other exchange students.

This photo was taken at the "Fischmarkt", in english fishmarket, at  about 7 on a sunday morning. Bananen Fred threw bananas at us as always, but Schoko-Jonny already had a sore throat.We danced at the concert inside the "Fischauktionshalle" (fishauctionhall) to german "Schlager". An old lady tried to teach us line dance and an asian tourist filmed us. Even though it was very cold and windy, we had a lot of fun.

On Tuesday, 20th of March, we all went on a guided tour through the Hamburg harbour. The tour guide was really funny and told us a lot about the history of Hamburg and showed us interesting monuments. From the ferry we were delighted to see the great view of Hamburg and its harbour. We all really enjoyed the good weather after some very windy days. In the evening some of us met up to play lasertag. We beat everyone! No one can defeat us.

This is a picture of our flight from Porto to Hamburg. We flew both our flights with Ryanair and drove with the bus from Porto to Vigo and back. The driving time was a bit long, but most of us didn't know each other so well, so we had time to change that.

We took this picture of the soccer field of the Celta Vigo Stadium in Spain. I was in the Stadium with Andi Guille Luisa and Fernando. We watched the game between Celta Vigo and Las Palmas. There was a Great atmosphere in the Stadium. After every Goal from Celta Vigo they played a Music and the Whole Stadion was celebrating. At the end of the Match Celta Vigo won 3:1. It was a Great day because there are many differences between a Soccer Match in Germany and in Spain. So it was an important thing to me that I did in Spain. We visited the Stadium in our free time after the regular program in the afternoon of the 3rd of April.

This day we were on a ship in Hamburg. We visited the big ship and took funny pictures. One of them was this one. We imagined to be on the Titanic and recreated the famous picture, where the Person behind holds the Person in Front. This picture shows our Team Spirit and How good we came together on this Exchange. This is another picture we took on the ship. (Andi, Guille, Fernando and me (Lukas)) are dabbing to create a funny picture and to hold this nice day in memory for us. The dab became in very famous in 2017 so we thought we should do this too.

                                                             The harbour of Vigo    As can be seen here, Vigo is located at a bay- if it were in Norway, they would probably call it a fjord We might have cursed them after a few hours of work, but in the end we created really impressing octopuses Jackson- Pollux-Style The seagulls seemed to like our art

One day, our spanish friends came to school with us. Our art teacher prepared a painting project for us. The topics were "Painting water in it's different shapes and colours" and for the other one we used different kinds of material to create collages of a ship on the sea. For the boat art works, we worked in teams of two with our exchange partner. It was nice to see, how different the individual paitings were and how we got new ideas from our partners. An example for the paintings of water... ...and one for the collages of the boat. For this one different kinds of paper, wooden sticks and rope were used.

On our last day in Vigo, all of us did a project called "Action Painting" in the school yard. It was inspired by the dripping technique of Jackson Pollock. Not only the students of the exchange were part of the project, but students from art  classes participated and helped us. The canvas was made of a lot of small pieces and in the end, everyone got their own little part of the art work and so another suvenier of the trip.  To present our results, we worked on a big poster with photos and four of the small canvases, that was hung up in the school.

 Street Art in the heart of Vigo.  Our teacher analysing the art in the museum. Our exchange partners told us about these dinosaurs and that the mayor of Vigo loves it. Walking around in Vigo