GG Friend : Olivia from Germany

 This is a blog space of Olivia from Germany.

Hello and 안녕, my name is Olivia and I’m from a small village near Cologne in Germany. It’s called Niederzier and is located next to the biggest lignite opencast mine in Europe. 

On a school trip in the opencast mine. 

Here you can see my home and the three open pit mines in the region.

This is of course, a special burden on the environment in our region and led to the fact that I dealt with geography early on. Geography was also my first exam subject in my Abitur (German A-Levels) and I always enjoyed our lessons in the advanced class.

Our last course trip to Manchester.

I finished school about half a year ago and will be travelling to Australia in two weeks. There I will work on a ranch for a few months and then travel.

Animals have always played a big role in my life, I myself have a cat, two dogs and ride a craft horse.

I often go on trips with the dogs, for example also to the open pit mine. A few years ago, there were disputes between activists and the operating company of the lignite mine. It was about a piece of forest called "Hambacher Forst". 

In the end, the activists convinced and the forest area still exists today. I hope that in the future we can learn more about geography and thus also about climate change and our future, and thus ensure that environmental destruction like this one can no longer occur. 

Best regards and feel free to ask anything!:)