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On the occasion of the Day of German Unity, teachers, staff and parents organized a festival that united aspiration and celebration.
Together the school community, kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and IB started the day in the very beautifully decorated main hall. Herr Darmstädter, our school principal, gave a warm welcome to those present and engaged the students with quizzes on German records. After the welcome, the national anthem was sung. Frau Vaessen, cultural officer at the German Embassy delivered the greetings of the ambassador and illustrated this eventful and essential period of German history with very personal accounts of the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification.
DIS-Doha was also pleased to welcome another guest on this day – the school’s process advisor, Herr Metken, who had journeyed from Dubai. He also addressed a few words to the assembled.
It was a pleasure for the students of the classes 4, led by Frau Dünnebier, to paint the older schoolmates with the colors of the German flag.
In the workshops, too, all the students dealt with the day’s topic. Thus, contemporary witnesses were interviewed, sporting competitions were organized or “wall scenes” reenacted. The primary school students and the kindergarten were able to conduct their own age-appropriate programs.
The “big ones”, accompanied by Frau Karnebogen, Frau Al-Dubouni and Herr Bodenschatz, worked in groups to produce a film about “their” Germany, which was finally judged by all the secondary school students and the best one was awarded a prize.
In the meantime, the parents were also active. They organized a lavish buffet in the main hall. Surprised and hungry, the students went for it ….
Herr Darmstädter warmly thanked the parents and the parents’ representatives. With coffee and cake the party came to a very pleasant end.
Erika Theil
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