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Published: December 8th 2017
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This morning it was work experience with the apprentices of Tübingen. We went all went off to different offices with one of the German apprentices. Firstly I worked with Anna Lina in the Rathaus to look at how she inputs data into the system for the amount of people who voted in different villages. She said for elections the age is 18 but for council voting people could vote at the age of 16 although she said not many young people vote for the council ones.
She also showed me other tasks, like putting applications on for the ‘Bundesverdienstkreuz’ which is translated to ‘Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany’. Only 200,000 individuals in total have been awarded this and it is for the recognition and gratitude of deserving men and women of the German people and of foreign countries for their achievements that served the rebuilding of the country. Anna Lina needed to create the application for the person who had been nominated for this award and then she sent this on to the next person in the process.
We spoke about many things like how our apprenticeship programmes were different. All of their apprenticeships seem
to be the same for structure and they all move around different departments and have a longer time to complete the apprenticeship. Durham County Council apprentices have different contracts and some go to college to complete their work while others complete it in their work places. She also explained that they have options to do other subjects at the same time and Anna Lina’s chosen topic is religion.
I then worked with Temo folding up letters that needed to go out by 15:00. I asked Temo about the school system and how he felt about people being put in different types of school relating to their academic skill. He said that it is easier for the teachers to have a class that has a similar knowledge level of the topic. It was something I hadn’t thought about because our school system doesn’t work this way and it is interesting to see how people feel about it.
We then went for lunch with the German apprentices that were paid for by our Tübingen hosts, which we are very grateful for as we all had burgers the size of our head. The apprentices are all very friendly and their English is really good although they all apologise for it. I also tried to pronounce some German words better today, with the help of the apprentices, which just ended up with me embarrassing myself. I had a really funny day with the other apprentices and it was a very informative day discussing lots of things with them.
Then the official opening of the chocolate festival was at 13:00. We had just finished our lunch and missed the first 5 to 10 minutes. The Mayor was speaking to the crowd and then took some photographs. There was a lot of chocolate as you can imagine. Because it is on for 5 days I have decided to wait till it gets dark tomorrow to take some photographs of the buildings all lit up.
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