LANGUAGE CORNER - GERMANY
My Experience from Germany
Written by: Charlene
Grade X Science SMA St Peter Jakarta
At 10th August 2013’s evening I bid goodbye with Jakarta to leave for
Germany. We are departing to Düsseldorf then we will take a 3 hour trip
by bus to where we will be staying for the next 3 weeks, a small city called
Bielefeld. The other group will be staying at a city called Sankt Peter-Ording.
There are 17 people in total
in my group, all from different
cities in Indonesia, 1 teacher,
5 male students and 11
female students. On our way
to Düsseldorf we stop by at
Atatürk airport in Istanbul for
transit.
Then after a 3 hour trip
we arrived at a hostel, the
students are asked to take
their keys and keep some of
their money in a safe.
The students other than the
Indonesian ones are from
Turkey, Azerbaijan, Yemen,
Oman, Morocco, Egypt,
Tunisia and only one student
from USA.
My roommates come
from Azerbaijan and Turkey
and we don’t talk much
as a roommate due to the
language barrier, my friend
from Azerbaijan is pretty
fluent in German and not
We depart from Jakarta at 7 pm and arrive at Düsseldorf
the next day at 12 pm Germany’s time.
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that fluent in English, and
so is my Turkish roommate.
I usually hang out with my
fellow Indonesian friends,
sometimes I come to other’s
room to chat.
The long flight motiva \