Living conditions of 16 to 18 years old young people in Germany



By Nadja & Kathrin, Merian-Schule, Freiburg, GERMANY, 1998




The bigest part of young Germans in the age from 16 to 18 still goes to school
 and lives at home. After secondary school and live at home most of the pupils decided to
 go to the colleges,and if you are in college you must learn very hard, because its very
 difficult.The main problem is to find a job after school, because the economic situation
 is more difficult as it was years ago because so there are many young people at the
 moment in Germany. Don't have a job and do nothing is for most of the youngsters very
 boring and so they become criminal. On the other side some of them do for example a
 social year to avoid hanging around.

After school youngsters have many spare time in which they do a lot of things for example: go shopping, making sport, meet friends, have a date or they go work to get money. At the weekend is partytime, if the weather is nice they make picnic, go swimming and so on. If you are 16 are you able to go to discos in the evening and if you are finally 18 you can make a driving license and can go to discos and pubs so long if you want.