JAS Gymnasium, Nabburg, Germany

Some Examples of our interviews with older people about environment

We have prepared some questions in order to find out, how the attitude towards environmental pollution and protection has changed during the last decades. 

Sarah Meiller:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	I'm 61 years old.
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	When I was young - let's say 45 years ago - my family didn't talk about environment, but we absolutely lived it. If only for thrift. We heated with wood and most of the time only the living room. The bathwater heater was only heated on Saturdays and the whole family used the same water for bathing. The youngest was allowed to bath first. We did not either have a car no telephone or refrigerator or similar. My mother took care about our vast garden and the small animals and she was really skilled in preserving food and cooking. We lived very environmentally friendly, were happy children and missed nothing.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	Nowadays: We have different dust bins and bin liners: paper, plastics, other waste and a composter in the garden. In former days we only had a composter and I cannot remember that we had any other waste. Newspaper, scrap iron and used clothes were collected by travelling people (gipsies).
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	No or only few pesticides were used in agriculture. There were only few cars and electric gadgets in the household. Industry has not already been this developed, but it returned more sewage and exhaust gas into environment without filtering.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	I think it was at the end of the 70ies or at the beginning of the 80ies, when the "green party" made people attentive for environmental problems. Many spectacular actions of Greenpeace went through the media. And now due to the drama in Fukushima .

Tobias Braun:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	69
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	Environmental pollution wasn't important because nobody knew, that the environment could “die”. Nobody spoke about this topic.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	It was normal to throw things into the forest or in a sea. Moreover there wasn’t more than one bin to separate rubbish.
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	No, not seriously.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	Now scientists agree that the plants and trees will die, if people don't stop destroying the environment. So the people see that a life without plants and animals will be very bad.

Peter Plank:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	68
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	It wasn’t an important issue in my youth.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	All combustible things were burned.
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	In the eighties we had Sundays where you mustn’t drive the car. And e.g. in the butcher’s shop we bought sausages and meat  and the shop assistant put it into a “tupperware” . We didn’t need plastic bags.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	It started about the year 1980.

Moritz Prüfling:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	51
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	There was no information about the environmental pollution, only if there was an environmental disaster.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	There was no separation of garbage.
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	No, there were no steps, because nobody was interested in protecting the environment.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	About 1980 to 1985

Fabian Fleischmann:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	I am 71 years old.
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	I didn’t get any information about environmental pollution. It was not a topic when I was young.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	I didn’t have to separate garbage. There was only one bin for all rubbish.
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	Some people protested on the streets against the atomic power plants but nobody recognized them.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	One of the most important changes towards environment protection was in the year 1986 when the nuclear incident in Tschernobyl happened.

Max Luber:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	74
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	When I was young there wasn`t talked much about the destruction of our nature, because there was no plastic and other stuff like this.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	The rubbish wasn`t separated. When we had rubbish we burned it.
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	No. Everybody could decide what he did with the rubbish.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	At the end of the 50ies.

Anja Gruber:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	I´m 75 years old.
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	We got no information about environmental pollution and everybody said there was no environmental pollution.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	At first we didn’t separate garbage. But about 20 to 30 years ago, we began to separate the garbage. First we only separated the paper and later the other things, too.
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	We didn’t know anything about protecting the environment.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	20 years ago, at the moment when the separating of the garbage began.

Armin Zitzler:

Questions:	Answers:
1. How old are you?	61
2. What information did you get about environmental pollution when you were young?	I hadn´t got any information about it. I come from a little village and nobody threw his trash into the nature.
3. How did you separate garbage at home?	We had a farm at home, so we had nothing to throw away.
4. Were there any other steps taken to protect the environment when you were young?	No, there was nothing to be done, because there was no environmental pollution.
5. In your opinion, when did the attitude towards environmental protection start to change?	It changed when the people wanted everything new. I think it was a false solution to sell everything in plastic.

Environmental Problems in Nabburg (Oberpfalz)

With the following link you can (finally) watch our presentation about environmental Problems in Nabburg!


http://www.slide.com/r/k2rBQ4vm4j9PgrJXu8hjvR6EopdH-H6J?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original

JAS Gymnasium, Nabburg, Germany

Our experiences in Spain  

First of all thank you very much for being such a perfect host, we all enjoyed being in Spain with you! Here are some of our experiences, we tried to collect things that surprised us and wrote one report all together.

We start with the school life:

School started later than in Germany (we start one hour earlier) and ended at 3 pm (in Germany we finish school at 12.50 o`clock and sometimes we have lessons in the afternoon until 4.15 pm). For us it was a big surprise that in Spain the pupils didn’t need to stand up when the teacher came into the classroom and they changed their seats during the lessons. Also the students called their teachers by their first names, and the teachers weren’t very strict.

The biggest problem for us during the lessons was the language, because no teacher spoke English, except English teachers. In Germany almost everybody speaks a little bit English. Another funny thing was that the pupils were not separated in PE, in Germany boys and girls are separated in these lessons.

Now our experiences with our guest families:

In the Spanish houses you needn't take off your shoes, in Germany you usually do this when you enter a room. Additionally the meals are later than in Germany e.g. dinner is at 10 pm or later. In Germany we eat at approximately 7 pm! For us it was also very surprising that Spanish people don’t drink water with bubbles.

The impression we had from the Spanish:

The Spanish girls like blonde boys and the people in Spain are not very tall. Youths  meet each other very often and at every meeting they give kisses to the others. In Germany we just hug each other, if we are good friends.

Most of the parents couldn`t speak English but they were very very nice. They cared a lot for us, and fulfilled all our wishes. The people there are very friendly and maybe like we, very crazy. J And of course, they showed us many funny and great things in their hometown to entertain us, e.g. the day in the park, where the dog left a gift for us  :D

ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

My experience in Spain!

April the 5^th, is for me an important day:

My first time by plane, my firt time in Spain, my first contact with another culture.

I have been lucky to partecipate to “PROJECT COMENIUS” a project whose aim is to get in touch with young people coming from different countries,and different cultures.

Pilar, my friend, has welcomed  me in a very friendly way in her house in Ciudad Real.

In those days, I had lot of fun.

I got in touch with the Spanish culture, expecially with the Spanish cuisine ( I LIKE IT!) and I was very surprised to find the streets and the school  very clean.

I noticed, that during the class, there was respect towards the teacher,who is surrounded by silence!!

Pilar’s family was very nice with me and I’m looking foward to meeting my Spanish friend in December.

It was a wonderful experience,which opened my mind on  another culture.

                                                               Federica Mariggiò

ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

My journey to Spain has been fantastic.

Before leaving, the wish to fly and to stay with a Spanish family got me scared.

The first day I was there I was not familiar with my Spanish friend Sandra and I felt a little embarassed.

But Italian and Spanish languages are similar so we could understand each other.

Their way of living is a little different from ours.

They go to work at a quarter to nine and they come back home at a quarter to three.

They have dinner very late, about eleven o' clock.

I have noticed that Italian food is better than Spanish food, but the latter is very good.

My favourite Spanish food was paella. It is a mixture of shrimps, meat and rice.

It's very good!

Sandra explained me that in Spain a lot of regions don't accept corridas.

Sandra and her friends were “anti-taurista”.

The most incredible thing I saw there is that there were huge parks with very big fountains.

Sandra was very nice and kind to me.

At any time she and her mom asked me if I needed something.

In the morning we used to go to school. I suppose her school is bigger than mine.

The rules of her school are different from ours.

There students have to change classrooms according to the subject they have; on the countrary, in my school teachers change classrooms at the end of each lesson hour.

I was very well in Spain and I hope I'll go there again.

ALBERTO SARACINO

ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

Report J

My journey to Spain has been great I had fun and I’m very happy of this experience.                                    The travel by plane was a cool experience, but the staying in Spain was the best!                                   In the first day I was there, I was embarrassed, but after few hours from my arriving I understood that Esther and her family were nice and very friendly like each person that I met there.           Spanish food was delicious and I tasted a bit of everything but “tortilla de patatas” an “paella” were the best!                                                                                                                                                          The way of life of Spanish people is similar to ours, only the school: the structure and the rules are very different.                                                                                                                                                            It was a fantastic stay and I hope, indeed, I wish to go back again because I felt very well with all!

Di Palmo Stefania

ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

REPORT

From 5^th to 9^th of April 3 of my friends, 2 teachers, the headmaster and I went to a foreign country : Span.

On the morning of the 5^th we took the plane from Brindisi and we arrived in Ciudad Real at about 5:00 o'clock pm of the same day.

There, there were the families who were going to host us

I found a girl and his father: Bea and Paco. She's very beautiful and his father is very nice.

We went to their house and then we went out into CR with Federica, Pilar, Sandra and Alberto.

It was very hot, in fact we wore always T-shirts.

The school was clean, tidy and very big: there were many classroom and one atrium where everybody went during breaks. The lessons were very interesting for me because I had to understand what the teachers said...but in Spanish! They started at 8:45 am and finished at 3 o'clock pm.

My “new family” prepared me some typical food, such as el pisto, la tortilla de patatas or an other food called giutarra. I got on very good with Bea, her mother Maria, her sister Sara, and his father Paco. They are very friendly. For me it was very easy to understand Spanish, because it's very similar to Italian.

We went to lots of shops and parks: they are very large and beautiful. We visited lots of particular and important monuments.

On the last day we went to Madrid and we visited it during the night, because only in this part of the day, everybody go out in the center of Madrid. We went to a restaurant and I ate the peilla, an other typical food.

This trip was educational and important, even because also I now have a new friend in a foreign country! =) that I'll never forget!

                                                           Rebecca