Maandag 13/05

Vandaag stond een uitstap naar een ecologische varkensboerderij op het programma. Vervolgens kregen we extra uitleg omtrent lokale landbouw en hoe ze de concurrentie aan kunnen gaan met de grote commerciële verkopers en kwekers. Dan hebben we onze eigen barbecue moeten aansteken met vuursticks: een zeer leerrijke ervaring. Na het eten hebben we een cave bezocht, maar jammer genoeg zonder veel stalactieten en stalagmieten , waarschijnlijk omwille van te veel luchtverschuivingen en andere omstandigheden. Op terug weg naar de school zijn we gestopt in Blaubeuren en bezochten we de "Blautopf".

Dinsdag 14/05

Projectwerk vandaag! Als ontspanning, en om verder te werken aan ons project, zijn we interviews gaan afnemen in de supermarkt en daarna hebben we alles geanalyseerd in de bib.
Om onze vrije tijd 's avonds in te vullen zijn we met onze huisgenoten samen een ijsje gaan eten in Schelklingen. Inderdaad, we verblijven hier in het prachtig genoveerde internaat van de school, dat oorspronkelijk een klooster was.

Wednesday 15/05

Wednesday morning our day started again in the library where we prepared  for the visit to the local market in Ulm. We went to Ulm by train. On the market we used the questionnaire we made the day before to interview ten people. The purpose of the questionnaire was to do research on the reasons why people chose the local market instead of the supermarket. And if sustainable food production is important for their choice. We also had to buy strawberries and vegetables for the projectwork on Thursday. The German students guided us through some history of Ulm. We visited the butchers tower, a remaining part of the old wall. The story tells that a butcher got locked up in the tower because he put sawdust in the flesh to make more profit. We also saw the most crooked hotel in the world and the statue of the sparrow. The sparrow is the symbol of Ulm. The walk ended at the Donau, the longest river in Europe. Then we had lunch in Ulm. To digest our lunch we climbed the 730 stairs of de Münster in Ulm, until today the highest tower on earth. Due to the clouds we couldn’t see the Alps, but anyway the view was amazing. After some free time to see a little more of Ulm we went back to school. We were invited on the movie-night in the loft of one of the dorms and ate pizza.

Thursday 16/05

Today we did project work all day. We started the day by going to the shop to buy chicory, nuts, yoghurt and mayonnaise for making a Belgian chicory salad. When we got back we washed all the ingredients and chopped them. The Germans prepared their salad and we prepared ours. The salads were served as side dishes with the barbecue at lunchtime. We also had to prepare strawberry jam with the strawberries we had bought on the local market yesterday. In the afternoon we designed our own logo for the jam-jars and wrote the recipes of what we made for our cooking book. We also wrote our rapports from the last days.