EfA-SOZ – Chancellor Angela Merkel hands over Europasses at the Jane Addams School

Neither we nor the participants would have thought that when we prepared them and accompanied them from Berlin during their stay abroad in Wales and Spain: It was a great honor for the participants to be able to tell the Chancellor personally about her time abroad. “Flexibility, language, unbelievably many new interesting experiences – above all, I was able to get to know myself in Wrexam in a completely new way and to gain an authentic insight into the working and living conditions of the people”, reported Patricia Press the Chancellor. “I was able to get to know methods of teaching in a primary school and gain insight into the Welsh school system, which is very different from the German one.