http://hartland.patch.com/articles/germany-meets-hartland
Germany Comes to Hartland
Seventeen German exchange students are currently exploring Hartland Township.
By Tatum Ryan Email the author April 17, 2012
Seventeen exchange students are learning what it is like to be a Hartland High School student for three weeks in an exchange program that involves German teacher Pam Iden’s class.
Starting two weeks ago, seventeen families from Hartland are hosting German students in a program called GAPP or the German American Partnership Program. The program began in the 1970s and was designed to help teach younger generations about other cultures while building „lasting relationships between young people so that we understand and trust each other better,“ according to Iden.
„I believe programs like this teach us how similar we really are,“ Iden said. „People of all countries, languages and cultures want to have a world that is free of war, disease and poverty and full of opportunities to be educated, employed, safe and happy.“
Learning each other’s culture might help teach the young students their similarites, but, but for some students, it was simply a chance to make new friends and have fun.
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