We started in the night with the Bus from Siauliai to Poland. It was a pretty long drive but the students were very active and so the time went by quite fast :).
We played some games, talked about everything, listened to music, made several stops, ate a lot of sweets and as you see in the end there was even not a lot of time left to sleep. Because of that I went to bed as early as possible when we arrived in our wonderful hotel in Poland. We just went to a small, reaaaally small store to buy some food and then I went to bed. Of course the students enjoyed their first evening of the trip and so they were a little bit more quiet when we continued our journey to Berlin the next day.
Berlin
We made a short stop at the "Berliner Mauer" to take some pictures before we finally went to the center of Berlin to start our sightseeing tour. :)
Thanks to the History teacher the students got always some information about the different sights and thanks to some students, who were willing to translate for me, I also could learn something. Well the language was again a kind of challenge for me. Not just because I was the only one out of nearly 50 people who can not speak Lithuanian but also because I could speak German again and I realized again how much easier life can be when you can communicate with people as you wish.
For example in Berlin I met one of my friends form Austria who is working in Berlin at the moment. During our break we went together to a restaurant and we had a nice conversation with a couple next to us. Absolutely nothing special but for me it was so nice that I was able again to just join a conversation easily.
So simple as it sounds but for me this experience and hour together with my friend was the highlight of Berlin.
For the students of course it was the amazing city itself. We have seen the Parliament, the TV tower, the "Brandenburger Tor" and so on. Hundreds of pictures where made, some nice moments I could also catch.
After sightseeing we went to Hanover where we stayed in a Motel.
Bremen and Serengeti Park
On Tuesday the 31.3 we started early in the morning our travel to Serengeti Park where we explored "the jungle". With a bus we drove through the different areas of the park and our bus driver told us a bit about the animals we could see. The man could just speak German and so it was my turn to translate. It was a really special experience for me and I enjoyed the tour a lot. We had the chance to see so many awesome animals from normal goats and pony, over Elephants and Giraffes up to Lions and Tigers. Very impressive was for me the white Tigers which are very rare. Our bus driver told me that he had raised one of this unique creatures at home some years ago. He said it happens often that someone from the park had to raise a animal at home. He also had already a Giraffe and at the moment one college has a monkey at home. For me it sounded very interesting but like a huge challenge
Nevertheless Bremen is a really nice City and really enjoyed the bell song and the cute narrow street "Schnorrstrasse".
Heidepark
Bad weather and storm warning- not really the best conditions to go to a fun park like Heidepark. We were thinking and discussing long but finally we decided to give it a try and we were lucky. It did not rain a lot and a lot of roller costar were working. I think for the students it was a special and memorable day. I could not join them riding the coaster but still it was nice to walk through the park and see happy faces everywhere.
Not as funny as the park was the bus drive after it because a lot of students felt sick. Fortunately soon everybody felt better and was ready for the long journey back to Poland, where we stayed one night before we continued driving to Lithuania.
