Today we started fairly early, Meeting at School at 08.30. The first thing we did was to watch a mock debate. Teams from our host school here in Poznan, and another local School, team IILO and team VIII LO, competed in a debate titled "The voting age should be lowered to 16 in order to increase active citizenship among the youth". The teams both had good arguments, and it was a close debate, which for the audience was won by the negative side. However, the judges disagreed, pointing out the moer consistent argumentation of the affirmative side, and awarded this team the victory.
After a short break, we were divided into two groups to participate in workshops about debating techniques and to prepare the affirmative and negative side for our debate tomorrow. We worked together to find ideas and arguments, and then chose the students who would represent the group in the debate tomorrow. For the affirmative team this was Esther, Francisze, Joan, Sindre, Fynn and Lourdes. For the negative team this was Joanna, Sarah, Piotr, Philipp, Pawel, Emma.
After an intense afternoon, we left school at 15.00 to join our host families for the evening.
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