English Blog Posts 2019/20

By Mona “[…] and we will come back home, and we will come back home, home again […]” These are some lyrics from “From now on”, a song out of the movie “The Greatest Showman”. mehr lesen…

by Magdalena Stormy sea, waves crashing over the poop deck, rain, hail…we expected all of this. We prepared for all of those situations and we were ready. And then, everything was different from what we mehr lesen…

By Marc Democracy is an important element of our daily life on board. It is represented in different aspects of the educational concept. One of them was Kurt Hahn’s pedagogic, he emphasized the importance of mehr lesen…

by Paul After a ten-day journey we finally reached Bermuda. Bermuda was discovered 1500 and colonized 1609 under the British crown. The country is in cooperation with the UK but they are kind of their mehr lesen…

by Moa Taking over the ship probably doesn’t sound as exciting as it is. The idea is that we students use the knowledge we’ve gained so far to navigate, cook, and repair the boat. Everything mehr lesen…

by Katharina Our life aboard the Thor Heyerdahl is like an inertial system and therefore a life full of extraordinary rituals, traditions and unique running gags. Some of them are done every week or even mehr lesen…

by Alea After 10 days in Cuba a big highlight was waiting for us: the small group expedition. We sorted ourselves into five groups by very special criteria. It was important that you weren’t so mehr lesen…

By Freya We arrived in Cuba on the 5th of february at the diving hotspot Maria la Gorda – white sand and blue sea, a place only made for tourists. From there we started our mehr lesen…

by Maike During our stay in Cuba we visited the “Escuela Federico Engels”, a school that seems like ours at home but is actually quite different. The biggest difference you can see without even visiting mehr lesen…

by Merle Thirty-six bikes, two motorcycles, one bus, thirty-four KUSis, two teachers, two policemen, one bus driver, one travel guide – that’s how we travelled through Cuba. We drove from Maria la Gorda, the most mehr lesen…