Picture from the Grand Tour to Essen 16-25 April 2010

On Friday-Sunday 16-25 April 2010 class IP3 at Presterudsgymnasiet and class TE3 at Brogårdsgymnasiet in Kristinehamn will make a journey to the school Berufskolleg West in Essen in Germany. The tens days journey is a part of a two year Comenius bilateral language partnership between the schools, which run from August 2008 to July 2010. The Swedish part of the project is EU-financed by 22 000 €. During the visit the students will visit the school and lessons, work with the joint energy project, visit a coal mine and coal plant. On Wednesday 21/4 we also will visit Brussels and the EU-Commission and the EU-Parliament. We do our grand-tour to Germany and Belgium by bus and on the trip to Essen  we will visit the concentration camp Bergen Belsen, and on the way back to Sweden we will visit the old Lübeck. Essen is the Capital of Culture in Europe 2010.

Program

The program of our journey is on http://andersandersson.nu/comenius_kristinehamn_essen/galleri_essen_apr_2010/timetable_essen_10.pdf,
which also is a complement to the picture down.

Picture

Images are stored according to various tour events:

  • Bus tour to Essen (Scharnebeck boat lift, Becklingen War Cemetery, Bergen Belsen). Click!
  • Our hotel Gästehaus ABZ. Click!
  • Football at Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park) between Borussia Dortmund - Hoffenheim. Click!
  • Visit at our partnerschool Berufskolleg West in Essen, where we build paper bridges, played football and had barbeque. Click!
  • Visit at the 50 m height Tetraeder (pyramid) and Prosper 2 coal mine in Bottrop. Click!
  • Visit at EU-Commission, EU-Parliament and Atomium in Brussels. Click!
  • Picture from Essen. Click!
  • Datteln new coal power plant, which start 2011 and will produce 1100 MW electrical energy. The cool tower is 180 m high. Also picture from Oberhausen's CentrO and the gasometer. Click!
  • During the bus tour back to Sweden we stay for three hours in Lübeck and visit Petri and St. Marien church, Tomas Manns Buddenbrook and Willy Brandt hous. We arrived to Kristinehamn at 05.00 in the morning. Click!

Articles

Here are three articles from the journey written by students and published in Nya Kristinehamnsposten (NKP):