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For very late arrivals we meet at 22: 30h and 00: 15h in Lingenfeld station. Please inform us about your arrival time. You stand visible at the railway station opposite to the restaurant “Zum Bahnhof” You have to phone one of the above mentioned mobile phonenumbers about one hour before you arrive in Lingenfeld. Than somebody can pick you up. If you are not able to communicate just wait! If you didn’t inform us that you come, just take a taxi or go the 5km to Weingarten Arena. This is not so far and sports is part of the camp.

In any case. You can also walk the 5 km from Lingenfeld to Weingarten Arena. Just go to west to Westheim and than to Weingarten.

Use google maps, your feet and your brain.

Once in Weingarten/Pfalz

Just go 400 meters from the bus stop (church) to the arena

First read and understand and than you can ask:

Any question to Dr. Ralf Rieger: ralf. rieger@dhbc. de or phone +491713085097 or
+49 157 85649986 (Iva Krá lová ) ivca. kralova@seznam. cz

More about the accommodation:

Accommodation: will be in the main building of the Arena with several-sleeping-rooms (12 beds, 5 and 7 beds in each), kitchen, bathrooms, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures. It is recommended to bring equipment for football and or tennis to the workcamp.

More about self-organisation:
Our workcamps are self-organised by the group. One or two “leaders” will be there supporting the group but all participants will take full responsibility for the group’s everyday life, such as organisation of leisure time activities, kitchen-duties and house cleaning. It is not a holiday with full service by the group leaders. They take care of a lot watch that people speak German and send people home if the speak Russian or English!
Accordingly you will find absolutely no set program of leisure activities day by day, don’t expect anybody to fill up your free time. What exactly will be done during camp depends largely on your individual wishes and on the wishes of the group. Help and recommendations is given by people from the SV Weingarten.

More about the food:

Household chores and kitchen-duties are also self-organized. Each day a couple of volunteers do not work outside and take care of cleaning and meal preparation. Shopping is generally done according to a shopping-list written by the group itself. Therefore a budget is available. Just be aware that not every exotic ingredient can be easily found in Weingarten.

Good cooking is important J and a camp is a unique possibility to try tasty recipes and cook great food. Please, take the opportunity and show some of your culture to all. It happens to receive a critic at the end of the camp: “I have a few kilograms more than before I came here... ”; -).

More about the work:

Main work will be in the Arena, around the football fields, tennis court; in the wood and the churchs. Participants will also be doing various manual works to prepare the area around the arena. Time of work will be about 5 hours daily. .

More about leisure possibilities:

The Arena in Weingarten http: //www. svw2007. de/fotogalerie-eg. html is close to Germersheim and Speyer ( http: //www. germersheim. eu/stadt_germersheim/Tourismus/In%20der%20Region/ and http: //www. speyer. de/sv_speyer/en/Tourism/ http: //www. weingarten-pfalz. de/bilder. htm ). Germersheim is a historical and picturesque town, 50 km southwest of Heidelberg. It has 20. 000 inhabitants, including 3. 000 students. Weingarten itself has a nice Arena with sports facilities. One Goal is also that the volunteers participate in sport activities of the SV Weingarten. (Ferit’s football training und Gü nter Freizeitsportgruppe etc. ). The women football team of SVW is also interested in playing against the volunteers. On the weekends a trip to Heidelberg and Speyer, Karlsruhe or Pfä lzer Wald etc. might be interesting.

More about Weingarten:

The camp is located approx. 10 km away from the city centres of Speyer and Germersheim. Terminal: Busstation Weingarten, via Speyer Busstation, Germersheim Busstation or Lingenfeld, The next train-station is in Lingenfeld; next airports Karlsruhe/Baden, Frankfurt/Main, Stuttgart, or Frankfurt-Hahn.
https: //de. wikipedia. org/wiki/Weingarten_(Pfalz)

More about the weather:

The south west with its Rhine valley is called the Toscana of Germany. Normally it is warm and sometimes even hot. But weather can vary. It shouldn't be too cold but there is no guarantee. Bothersome rain is possible, and some of the planned activities of the workcamp can change because of bad weather.

More about the German language:

This is a German-speaking camp for people who wish to learn German, so even the short use of any other language will damage yourself and the entire group. Most of all we strongly recommend to avoid English. From Monday to Friday there are generally lectures, 2 hours long and usually in the afternoon, after work. The language training is conducted with the help of university of Mainz Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft of University Mainz (http: //www. fask. uni-mainz. de).

A good preparation for the workcamp is to read a bit german literature like this: www. kicker. de. Three courses will be offered by language specialists from university Mainz – for beginners and for some advanced people.

During the 3 weeks the volunteers will (try to) communicate only in German and receive an effective German language training.

Of course you may ask each question concerning language whenever you want.

You will be provided with learning materials but if you have your own books or dictionaries, bring them along with you.

Additional remarks:

Each word which is not German is disturbing! It has something to do with how our brains are working. When people shift between two languages while learning at least one of them, the neurons get “confused” while memorising. This is widely known as “Ranschburg-Phenomenon”. So if you are learning and talking partly in German, partly in your mother-tongue, partly in English, and by chance listen to other languages, your language learning will not be satisfying. We want instead you to think and dream and make jokes in German already after the first week.

The lectures are anyway not the most important part of the language camp. The camp itself and daily life will be your best teachers. It means what happens in the morning at breakfast, during work, in your leisure-time, on excursions. Just as an example, you will be having breakfast and you could easily ask for the butter in your mother tongue to the person sitting near to you. But we expect you to ask in German, and if you don’t know how to say “butter” in German then find it out. That’s a workcamp: everybody helps and supports everybody! Moreover the organizers and groupleaders don’t deserve to work as a “language-police” and tell several times to stop talking in English or Russian or Italian or whatever else. We just expect that you accept this rule from your arrival. We know how hard it can be at the beginning, and it could be that you feel lost and start thinking that all the others are speaking German better than you. In the first days you will maybe have troubles to express what you really mean. Believe us: after a few days this feeling will change and everything will be OK!

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P. S.: In unseren Workcamps sprechen wir fast nur Deutsch (it is written everywhere, on our database, description, info-sheet, big and clear. Still some people come and say: “Oh really? I didn’t know it! ”). But we have experienced that they learn something

Look, in previous years we had many participants who needed to improve their German language – for the university, for career, for own and private reasons, for whatever. Well, I am personally happy that many participants told us later that our project was really helpful (not just for language, of course). Then we don’t ask respect for pro-international but for other people and for yourself.

Once you are here, only German language! Deal?

Andreas Kunz

In Weingarten it is quite easy to speak German, because a lot of people don’t speak English. You have to ask them to repeat if you don’t understand. Sometimes you have to ask two times or three times J. Than you will have success. The group leader - Iva Krá lová - takes care and she will watch carefully that all the people speak German – or travel back. From 2016 to 2019 we had a group which followed this concept and they had success and fun. Nobody was sent home.

Ralf Rieger

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