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Azores – setting foot on European ground again
For the last five months we´ve been sailing around half of the world on our ship -and home- the Thor Heyerdahl. We´ve visited so many countries that some of us don´t even remember the first stops in Falmouth or Lisbon.… mehr lesen
A zoom out view
“Outward Bound“- a concept we have probably all heard of. It is the educational theory by the educationalist Kurt Hahn as well as the educational fundament of the Thor Heyerdahl and the KUS-Project. It consists of four pieces: physical and… mehr lesen
Havanna – The city of contrasts
After our bike-tour and our stay at the Friedrich-Engels-School, we went to Havanna, the capital of Cuba. When we arrived in Havanna, we crossed the Plaza de la Revolución on our way to the hostel. Around the Plaza there are… mehr lesen
Taking over the ship
Taking over the ship is one of the students’ tasks in the project “Classroom under sail”. During the entire journey, there are three ship takeovers (German: Schiffsübergabe) and every one of them is unique in their own way. The first… mehr lesen
The struggles of the DPL
Show us a city, buy food for everybody. Or maybe plan a bike tour. All that and more are tasks of the Daily Project Leaders (DPL). But what even is the DPL? In Panama and Cuba, everyday two to three… mehr lesen
Riding bikes in Cuba
Our journey began last autumn in Kiel – we moved onboard the Thor Heyerdahl and left Germany. In our luggage, there weren’t only clothes for six months, but also over 30 bicycles. The following three months, they didn’t see any… mehr lesen
Returning to our new home
It is sometime in the morning. We’re sitting in small motorboats moving down a big river. Why are we sitting there? We’re on our way from Bocas del Toro, the last stop of our stay in Panama, back to the… mehr lesen
Miga-Cove: Our stay with the indigenous tribe Naso Tjër-Di
“Miga”-with this word the Naso greeted us every day. When a person said that, you answered with “cove”. It’s a friendly greeting in the language of the Naso. After a long bus ride, we arrived in the small town called… mehr lesen
Host Families
The bus stops, the sky is dark. It is late in the evening. I get off the bus, which brought us from David to Boquete. We all grab our backpacks and go to a place in front of the language… mehr lesen
At Miguel’s
“Everything that´s green is poison – good thing that I am brown all over.” ~ Flo That was our motto when we visited Miguel, a lovely, funny man who lives together with his partner Yaneth in the rainforest of Panama.… mehr lesen