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From Oct. 29th to Nov. 3rd , 19 representatives of the teachers and the students from Holbein High School  in Augsburg, Germany visited our school for mutual communication, which is the 5th visit by the  representatives of this school.

At the welcome ceremony, Mr. Han Xianghe, vice principal of SEHS, delivered a speech to welcome the  guests on behalf of the whole school. He introduced the development situation and passionately looked  back on the friendly interacting activities we have held since we established the friendly relationship with  Holbein High School. 

The representative of teachers, Mr. Funk Wolfgang, who has visited SEHS for four times said that though  our institutionalized interactions and the homestay reception pattern, experiencing the life in local families  by themselves and learning about the culture and customs, the teachers and students from both schools  improved their understandings and friendships.

During the meeting, it was discussed deeply about the relationship in the future and indicated that both  sides would strengthen the deep communication about the protection and exploitation of water resource.  At the same time, the German representatives invited the students of SEHS to take part in the 11th  Reading and Writing Competition in Augsburg in 2015 of which the topic is Fantastisch (depicting the  originality of fantasy).

During the visit, the students and the teachers from Germany were paired with the students of SEHS and  watched our classes, experiencing our school’s pyrography classes, paper-cutting classes, calligraphy  classes, English classes and AP courses. In this way they got comprehensively acquainted with the  teaching in our school. They also travelled to Daming Lake, the Confucian Temple and Qushuiting Street in  the old urban area of Jinan and Shandong Provincial Museum, the Art Museum, the city Gallery and the city  Library in the new urban area, comparing the present and past of Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province.  Through these activities, the interactions between the two schools and the communication between  different cultures were promoted.

German students experienced pyrography class

Translated by: Fu, Jiaxin & Fu, Jiakai

 Edited by: Jingren Ji