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German exchange celebrates 25 years

By Kimberli Turner
Colorado Hometown Weekly

The German Exchange program has reached its silver anniversary, and Monarch High School students welcomed a group of 15 German students to the school, Friday, March 12.

When Debbie Singer started teaching German at Casey Junior High in Boulder — now Casey Middle School — in 1985, there was one stipulation: She would not teach unless she could implement an exchange program into the curriculum.

The program is still going strong 25 years later, and Singer — who brought the program with her when she began teaching at Monarch High School in 1998 — will pass the torch to the school’s new German teacher, Katalin Ivanyi.

Singer retired last May, but will help Ivanyi with the program this year.

“It’s a great pleasure to take this program over from Debbie,” Ivanyi said. “Without her it would have been impossible. Her help means a lot to me.”

Ivanyi believes the exchange program is an integral part of the students’ education, and immersing them in another culture only strengthens their understanding of the language.

“They really get to live the life of a German teenager there and an American teenager here,” she said.

The exchange students from Germany will stay for three weeks with host families. They’ll follow their partners to classes during the day and take part in other activities throughout the week.

The students will then switch roles as hosts, and MHS students will travel to Oldenburg, Germany, to a high school called GEO — Gymnasium Eversten Oldenburg — in May.

MHS held a breakfast reception March 12 to welcome the students, with Louisville Mayor Chuck Sisk and Boulder Valley School Board President Ken Roberge in attendance.

“This is such a fundamental part of what we’re trying to do as a school district,” Roberge said. “That kind of perspective is what makes us a better citizen of the world.”

Daniel Nustedt, 16, said he was a little nervous about his first trip to the United States, but he said he likes what he’s seen, and noted the differences between the schools.

Nustedt said he was surprised there was a TV in every room at Monarch, and the high school has more computer rooms than GEO, as well.

“It’s more technical,” he said.

Nustedt’s host, Michael Picker, 16, won’t be a stranger to Germany when he stays with Nustedt’s family.

Picker has family there and has visited the country nine times, he said.

The GEO students have a full schedule before them, complete with trips to the Capitol and the Denver Mint, a visit to National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration in Boulder and a weekend getaway at Snow Mountain Ranch in Winter Park.

MHS exchange students will get to visit the German Islands, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich during their stay.

“This is important to Monarch on an interscholastic level,” Sisk said Friday. “It’s phenomenal what this program can do for these students.

German exchange celebrates 25 years
By Kimberli Turner
Colorado Hometown Weekly




In March and June of 2010, Monarch High School, in Louisville Colorado will once again join with Gymnasium Eversten in Oldenburg, Germany in the German American Partnership Program. Oldenburg is located in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen).

The goal of GAPP (German American Partnership Program) is to not only expose students to the German-speaking world around them, but also to forge lifelong relationships with other students from Germany. Through learning another language and about another culture, you better understand your own.

Detailed flight itinerary for German students:
German students arrive on March 11th in Denver at 3:50 on Lufthansa
(parents and students meet at international gate)

German students depart on April 1st in Denver at 5:59 on Lufthansa
(parents and students need to be at the airport 2 hours before international departure.
We will meet at the Lufthansa counter at 4:00)

American students depart on May 28th in Denver on Lufthansa #447
(boarding begins at 5:00)
Students need to be at the airport 2 hours before international departure.
We will meet at 3:00 at the Lufthansa counter.

American students return on June 18th from Bremen to Denver on Lufthansa #446
(parents and students meet at international gate)

Janice Bond is our group travel co-ordinator at James Travel Points
Detailed flight itinerary for American students:

SALES PERSON: JB ITINERARY DATE: 11 JAN 10 / CUSTOMER NBR: MONAR10720 IYKKMW PAGE: 01

TO: MONARCH HIGH SCHOOL / 329 CAMPUS DRIVE LOUISVILLE CO 80027

28 MAY 10 - FRIDAY
AIR LUFTHANSA FLT:447 ECONOMY MEALS
LV DENVER 5:59P EQP: AIRBUS A340-600 / 09HR 46MIN

29 MAY 10 - SATURDAY
AR FRANKFURT 11:45A NON-STOP / ARRIVE: TERMINAL 1 REF: 3RIMJR

AIR LUFTHANSA FLT:344 ECONOMY REFRSHMNT/COMP
LV FRANKFURT 1:20P EQP: AIRBUS A319
DEPART: TERMINAL 1 55MIN
AR BREMEN 2:15P NON-STOP / REF: 3RIMJR

18 JUN 10 - FRIDAY
AIR LUFTHANSA FLT:345 ECONOMY REFRSHMNT/COMP
LV BREMEN 10:40A EQP: BOEING 737 300 01HR 00MIN
AR FRANKFURT 11:40A NON-STOP / ARRIVE: TERMINAL 1 REF: 3RIMJR

AIR LUFTHANSA FLT:446 ECONOMY MEALS
LV FRANKFURT 1:50P EQP: AIRBUS A340-600
DEPART: TERMINAL 1 10HR 20MIN
AR DENVER 4:10P NON-STOP / REF: 3RIMJR


Do you have questions about the Monarch High School / Gymnasium Eversten Partnership Program?
Contact our infamous leaders, Katalin Ivanyi and Frau Singer

 
     
IMPORTANT DATES


GAPP 2010
Meetings to prepare us for Oldenburg:

Meeting = Sunday, May 16th 4:00-5:00 for students only at Frau Singer's house.


Final Fling barbeque = Sunday, May 23rd 4:00-600 for students and families at Monarch

 
 
 
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