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The group of youngsters will spend nearly three weeks in the city, offering residents a chance to brush up on popular German phrases and learn a little something about the students' home in the fabled Black Forest region of Germany.
"We're picking them up in Boston (today)," said German teacher Jared Maul, who along with NHS teacher Spencer Wolf is helping to organize the host partnership. "Students are very excited. They're looking forward to it. They don't really know what to expect because they've never done anything like this before."
Sixteen different Newburyport families are providing a home base for the foreign students, based on a reciprocity program that will in turn send students involved in the Newburyport High School German program to Germany over the summer. The program allows students from two small towns and different cultures to sample life in another country -- which is something Maul feels will provide invaluable experience to students as they head out into the big wide world.
"I think it definitely provides the students with the chance to step outside America, where they can look beyond the border of the United States and see what else is out there," Maul said. "People can forget there's a whole world out there, and that other people are out there that do the same things we do, but just a little bit differently. They get the ability to participate in someone else's culture."
Newburyport High has planned an elaborate schedule for the visiting students, which will include a scavenger hunt around the city of Newburyport to familiarize them with their home community, trips to the Salem Witch Museum and the House of the Seven Gables, to the Goethe Institute and the USS Constitution. A trip has been planned for the Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, N.H., and some time to shadow their teenaged counterpart for a few days at NHS.
"The host parents will also take their German student to work and introduce them to what it's like to work in America," Maul said. There's an after-school field trip to Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, and they'll spend two free weekends with their host family, who will choose a unique activity to expose them to Massachusetts sites and sounds.
If you run into one of the foreign visitors downtown or at one of the organized events planned for their stay, be sure to stop and say hello, or "Gruss Gott," and extend a hearty "Willkommen."
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