Our fall semester begins next week & it's official-- in Braunschweig at the TU there will be 33% more incoming freshmen college students this year. That means a total of 3,000 freshmen. Why? Because of 2 factors: 1) Germany's obligatory military service for young men (or civil service, for conscientious objectors) is being done away with; & 2) in states where there used to be 13 grades for high school, it's changing to just 12 years; therefore, 2 high school classes graduated this summer simultaneously. (above are Sören, Henning & Nikola, our 1-month intern who is graduating & from our group)
One of my long- time dreams became true. We had friends donate various practical items to create student "welcome packets" -- including a mixture of things such as post-it notes, highlighters, erasers, pens, gummy bears. We also put in a new Connexxion postcard that advertises our group, with a new theme: "Stell dir vor" in a cloud of thoughts... (below I'm with Lars, Dodo & Steffi). This means, roughly, "just imagine..." Last Friday 10 of us stuffed 1,000 welcome bags-- they will be
handed out this Monday on campus! THANKS & danke for your prayers & to all those folks who contributed-- truly a HUGE help!
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