Never judge a Book by its Cover

During the last couple of weeks our class 11/1 had the opportunity to take part in an interview project that we created with our bilingual Economic class. The project started to develop after the first few weeks when we discussed the topic of our arrival at the FLS and when our teacher Mrs. Kaiser-Herz asked us what our thoughts and fears for the future were. Everybody agreed on feeling lost somehow because the school building seemed so big and there were so many unknown students that it was hard to integrate.



Thanks to the interviews that feeling soon changed. The project consisted of severalteams of two students. Each team had to interview three people of the FLS: first a teacher, second a staff member and third a student. We had to pick a teacher we didn't know in person yet. The staff members (e.g. the head master or the cafeteria lady) and the students were drawn by lot due to the various types of vocational trainings that our school provides and the different branches of education, e.g.: students from the BG Q3 Economic branch, BS students or prospective event managers.

Step one was to find our selected people and to arrange a time and place to ask them questions that we came up with ourself. Step two was to preform the interviews in German and to translate them afterwards into English. Evaluating and discussing the results in class was our third step. Step four was to transform our written interviews into a visual project. We decided to cut out some human figures out of cardboard which represented our emotions about the interview. These figures where pinned on to the wall in room 103 together with the printed English interviews and pictures which we took while interviewing our teachers, staff members and students. Step 5 was to reflect our impressions and feelings of our experience. The whole class agreed that of course at first it was unusual to talk to strange people but it also was a great help to get to know our school better and its members which were all polite and openminded to us FLS-reporters. Being reporters made us feel more introduced into the school.

(Click here to view the big photo)

We all came to our first day of school thinking that the kind of old looking facade would also apply for the members and education of the FLS. But this interview project showed us the complete opposite, it showed us that the management, teachers and staff members from this school are anything else but an "old facade". With getting to know our school better and feeling more comfortable with coming here, we learned that one should never judge a book by its cover.

written by: Jessi Lenwell and Hanna Gossler, 11/1

By the way: if you are interested in getting to know better the people who form our school community come and see our wall collage in room 103 and find out more about them.