A group of 26 German high school students and two of their teachers recently spent about three weeks visiting Laramie, Wyoming and South Dakota.

They come from Sankt Bonaventura Gymnasium located in Dillingen, Bavaria on the Danube River, a small town with a population of about 17,000.

Their visit was through the German American Partnership Program (GAPP), a high-school link program that has been in existence since 1972. It’s sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency and the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. Over 10,000 students and 350 American schools participate every year.

Last June LHS German teacher Dave Miller and Laramie Junior HIgh School German instructor Marcie Tanner traveled to Germany with a group of LHS students as part of the exchange.

Each Laramie student lived with a student host and experienced the life and culture of southern Germany.

On Sept. 12, during their final full week in Laramie, four of the German students were interviewing by student writers in Bob Roth’s fourth hour journalism class. The LHS students were divided into four groups. Each group of Laramie teenagers then interviewed one of the German teenagers.

Stories about each German student appear in the next story.