Monday, May 4th, 2015

It was a bright day, with nice weather in the morning! We first went to Barmbek and visited Plan International Germany. Whe we saw a presentation about education that was on promoting child rights to end child poverty. Just like to play chess we first need to know the moves of each and every piece to make any move, we need basic education to play the game of life. Plan also does Developmental work for 3rd world countries, sponsors children who can't afford it and has various educational programmes in 72 countries. 
After the presentation, the group was split into two, half went to Eppendorf Gymnasium and the rest to Heilwig. My group went to Heilwig Gymnasium (which is my buddy's school) We went there and attended 2 classes with the ninth graders. They were interactive sessions wherein they asked us about India, the misconceptions, stereotypes, how we found Germany and so on. We also told them about how our perspective about the Germans before the exchange was totally different.
Then we had lunch and started working on our presentations. 
We retired for the day then and went ahead with our own plans for the day like just spending time at home with the family, some of the people went out for dinner together. All in all it was an educational, interactive and productive day.