Selected Events 2008      

Middle America Meets Middle Germany

Gräfenhainichen students and Consul Jim Seward

September 16, 2008. 15 students and their teachers from the Paul-Gerhardt-Gymnasium in Gräfenhainichen, Saxony-Anhalt, gave a presentation to their parents and Consul for Public Affairs Jim Seward about their recent 17 day trip to Springfield, Ohio, the first phase of a school partnership exchange sponsored by the sister city program with Springfield, Ohio. Consulate Geneneral Leipzig has been involved in this program from its inception. The students bubbled over with zest describing the overwhelming variety of impressions and the depth of the information they brought back from their trip; they concluded with a remarkably well-done, upbeat video permeated with enthusiasm about United States. Consul Seward expressed his gratitude to the students, their parents and teachers for doing so much to bring their communities in Ohio and Saxony-Anhalt together.