Foreign Correspondents

by Düzgün Sarikaya | 28. Feb 2024 | Rämibühl Realgymnasium  Germany has already stepped out of nuclear energy usage – while England and France are planing to build new reactors.  In the year 2023, 24.5% of Europe’s electricity was generated from nuclear energy, while alternative green energy sources made up a total of 43% in energy production in Europe. Nuclear energy remains the biggest …

Ayse Yilmaz was born in Turkey, but moved to Switzerland in 2011 along her husband. She found it difficult to leave those for whom she cared, but she understood that life would be better for her husband and her in Switzerland.  “The arrival in a new country, is a fresh start. It is a new chapter of your life. It …

The hunter Philipp Ritter keeps his eyes fixed on the deer, pulls the trigger and hits the animal directly in the heart with one shot. It has not noticed anything and within a few moments the deer collapses and lies still. But that, of course, is not the way most people today get their meat. People have gradually moved away …

When you ask students from two different schools in two different countries if they are satisfied with their educational experience and happy in day-to-day life at school, the answers are startlingly different. In an American school, where the educational system requires less hours of study, there is more of an emphasis on sports and the schools try to create a …

Comparing the Swiss school system to the International school system Wake up at 06:30. Get to school at 07:45. Don’t dare be late to your first class of the day! Sit still for 45 minutes at a time, listen and learn, that’s the drill. During your 10-minute breaks you get to walk around, stretch your legs or have a quick …

Part I: Paper from fallen leaves The climate crisis, powered by harmful emissions of burning fossil fuels, deforestation, agriculture and heavy industry, is a global problem. While the headlines are dominated by government policies – for example restrictions on emissions and big events such as the United Nations Climate Change Conference – other kinds of response to the crisis are …

Farming is an industry as old as the human race. It has, of course, developed over that time – but the basic model of cultivating land for food production has been a constant. Until now. Soon there will be 10 billion people on this planet – and they all need to be fed. Since our earth hasn‘t got infinite space …

Beautiful beaches, tropical forests, blue water… and a raging crime crisis. Why is Queensland, Australia, suffering from such a high crime rate? What’s going wrong below the surface of this seeming paradise on earth? I was on exchange in Townsville, QLD, in 2023 for six months, and I was able to learn a lot about life in Queensland, both the …