Selected Events 2008  

From left: Kirsten Teschauer and Sunshine Moore

April 22, 2008. Consulate General Leipzig reached out to the public library in Meiningen, southern Thuringia, with its "Meet US" program. Sixteen high school students and their teachers from the Meiningen Gymnasium (high school) participated actively in the program, which greatly contributed to the success of this visit. After Information Resource Center (IRC) Director Thea Bohse introduced IRC products and services, Leipzig American intern Sunshine Moore and staff member Kirsten Teschauer addressed common generalizations made by some Germans about life in American. The entire class joined in during the Q&A session to share their own experiences. The Consulate representatives also presented a donation of books which had come from U.S. publishers for the display at the Leipzig Book Fair, while the students and their teacher were given booklets about the U.S. from the State Department’s Bureau of International Information programs.