Way of livingWay of living

Interview with a Spanish Exchange Student

Interviewer: Good evening, you are from Spain, aren´t you?Student: Yes, I am.Interviewer: And you are visiting Germany?Student: Yes, I´m doing a student exchange for one week.Interviewer: Yeah, I heard about it...Can you tell me the biggest

difference between the way of living here and in Spain for you?

Student: Everybody here lives in houses, but the people I know from Spain usually live in flats. The German also have a big garden with a lot of plants and flowers.

Interviewer: It´s very beautiful, you enjoy your week here a lot, right?

Student: Yes, but the food is a bit different too. They eat so many vegetables, on their pizza and on their bread!

Interviewer: Oh, and is there any other difference?Student: Yeah! They ride bikes whenever they want to get to

another place, in my week here I saw more people on bikes than in my whole life. In Spain we

always walk to school or to our friends.Interviewer: And what about the parties? You dance a lot in

Spain, right?Student: They don´t have parties here, and they go to bed

very very early.

Interviewer: So you have a lot of time to sleep?Student: No, they also get up very early in the morning.Interviewer: Okay, that were all my questions, thank you very

much. I hope the rest of your exchange will be wonderful too.

German houses.

Arpartements in Merida.

Interview with a German Exchange Student

Interviewer: Hello, how are you?Student: Fine, thanks.Interviewer: Okay, let´s start. My first question is what do you

think what the biggest difference is.Student: The people are very relaxed. They´re all like a big

family. Interviewer: Do you like it?Student: Yes, in Germany a lot of children are bullied

because they like a different kind of music or aren´t as pretty as the other but in Spain they don´t mind.

Interviewer: Oh, that´s great! What about the evenings?Student: They eat and go to bed very late. When I´m tired and my family in Germany goes to sleep, they´re still

awake.Interviewer: And what do they eat?Student: They eat a lot of fast food, sweets and that kind

of stuff. They eat less vegetables than we do in Germany, I don´t know how they can be so skinny.

Interviewer: Can you think of last difference for the interview?Student: Yes, in Spain a lot of people live in flats, I live in a

big house with a number of rooms, twice as manyas in Spain and a big garden.

Interviewer: Okay, thank you very much. That was interesting.

Teatro romano inMerida.

Bergstraße in Worpswede.