Student exchanges resumed after a long break

After the Johann-Christian-Reinhart-Gymnasium with students from Barcelona, the Schiller-Gymnasium has now continued its student exchanges with our European neighbors. This time: France. More precisely, 28 students from the eighth and ninth grades from the small town of Loué near Le Mans visited the Schiller-Gymnasium with three teachers. The return visit by the Germans to Loué took place in January of this year. The exchange was supported by the Hof Franco-German Society.

Laëtitia Tarbouriech and Barbara Beilein, Daniela Geyer and Kirstin Schweitzer, the organizers, resumed the long-standing contact after a long corona break. During the visit to the Ratsstuben, the program also included a visit to Hof town hall and the town hall tower. Other excursion destinations included Nuremberg, Bayreuth and Regensburg and, of course, a whole weekend with the host families.

Mayor Angela Bier: "I would like to thank Ms Tarbouriech from Loué and Ms Beilein, Ms Geyer and Ms Schweitzer from our Schiller-Gymnasium for the great organization and the will to start the student exchanges again after a long break. They make a valuable contribution to the development of our young people and to building a tolerant and open-minded community."

Daniela Geyer: "The student exchange came about through discussions. A French colleague friend of mine put a former colleague at Schiller-Gymnasium in touch with a teacher at the collège in Loué. The collège there was also looking for a suitable partner school and so the contact was made."

This turned out to be a stroke of luck for the Schiller-Gymnasium, as the second French exchange program with Hof's twin town Villeneuve-la-Garenne was also on hold at the time. The grammar school is all the happier that the exchange with Loué has been established for many years, with interruptions due to coronavirus.