| What Students Are Saying |
| "We love to look at online arial views of the cities we are all from." |
| "I learned what homesick means." |
| "The funniest thing I have seen is the translation from English to Dutch." |
| "The most exciting thing I have seen is the Statue of Liberty, and New York City." |
| "The most odd thing to me is the big cars. We have small cars and stickshifts." |
| Some facts about Germany: -Geesthacht is a very small city with only 30.000 inhabitans. -1 hour away from Geesthacht (with the car) is the Baltic Sea. -Berlin is the capital of Germany. -Every year in october there is the "Oktoberfest" in Munich. -Hamburg is a big harbor city. All the ships come here. -Germany is bordered by the North Sea, Danmark, the Baltic Sea, Poland, Czech Republik, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxemburg, Belgium and The Netherlands. |
| Things you should know about our countries |
| Some facts about The Netherlands: -Holland is only 2 provinces of the Netherlands. -We have lots of windmills they are used for energy. -The Netherlands is very flat, there are no mountains. -Rotterdam is an important harbor city of the Netherlands. |
| Some facts about Hungary: -Budapest is the capital of Hungary. -The Hungarian girls are very pretty and cleaver. -Hungarian food is very good. (for example Gulash) -Hungary is democratic and they have a president. -We are very good at waterpolo and handball. |
| Some facts about Russia: -The capital of Russia is Moskau -The Urals mountains are the border between Europe and Asia. -Russia is the biggest country in the world -Russia has a lot of artists, composers, writer and architects |
| Some facts about the U.S. -We use too much gasoline. -We won our freedom from the British in the 1776. -We fought each other over slavery. -We support out troops in Iraq and other troops around the world. -We are like a salad bowl filled with different ingredients, because our citizens are from different cultures. |
| In the Netherlands football is not popular so we don't have the football shape balls. |
| "I learned how to drink out of the water fountain." |
| "The big houses and the nannies are exciting also." |
| "The funniest person I have met is Cory from U.S." |
| "Het gezin van Ben Record was geweldig!" The family of Ben Record is great. |
| Ez uton szeretnenk megkoszonni a fogado csalad (Tobin and Brinkman family) faradozasait, hogy mi a leheto leggazdagabb, legszinesebb elmenyekkel terhessuink haza. We would like to thank you for the family because of the accommodation, food, kindness. So we thank the Tobin and Brinkman families. |