Vasudha Gupta, Class XI E
Deutschland or Germany was a wonderful experience. The two month AFS reciprocal Program gave me experiences that will last lifelong. I was stationed at Isny, in the south of Germany. It was a small town with lovely woods and a river surrounding it! The Alps were just a few steps away and the air was as fresh as it could be. They have a lovely school called ‘Waldorf Schule’ with not just regular subjects but even metalwork, eurythmy, music, Russian, etc. During my beautiful stay in the fairyland, we visited some of the wonders of human creation. In The Deutches Museum in Munich I spent the longest time I’ve ever spent in any museum. From the mining caves to marine navigation and sea fossils, physics to maths, music to tools, it took me 8 hours!! It 
was thrilling to walk around the city carefree and listen to all the artists singing in the streets. We played golf and sledged in the Alps, cycled from one city to the other, went swimming in the river and shouted across huge fields…things I’ll forever cherish. It was also amazing to meet student refugees in my school from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan. I made artefacts and jewellery from wood, silver, gold, metal and sandstone. We also went to a carnival in Austria and also saw the lake of Constance and Kunsthaus Bregenz there. In a road trip to Italy we visited some medieval cities and camped in the Alps, and if you’ve seen the Sound of Music you know exactly how it must’ve felt. Besides Frankfurt we also did a tour around Dresden, visiting the Moritzburg Castle, Semper Opera, Zwinger and the Dresden Castle. The days and nights spent there will forever remain as a beautiful album in my mind.
