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Travel Journal in Pargue
7/29/11
Today I took the train from Berlin to Prague. It quite surprised me that if you have not reserved the seat, there won't be a seat for you. And there are lots of people on the train, even seating on the floor or in front of a toilet. Quite like china, though.
But the good thing is I asked a Asian girl where I can find the seat, and she is Chinese! You can hardly find Chinese in Germany... Then we can chat, and it won't be boring for 4 and a half hour without seat(we get the seat in the half way). We talked about a lot of things going on in china, and I found out I was so easy to be moved by something now. Be young again, because of the trip? I don't know....
The gentlemen by my side was nice, too. He told us a lot about the history and important places in Prague and help me defend my seat when I went to the restroom. We always met good people. I am lucky.
Then I meet Heidi and her roommate Sarah in the train station and they are from Austria. When we got into the dorm, found out the lady at the registration can not speak English. So happy and lucky Heidi can speak German. Then we went to restaurant and had dinner: very oily pork with beer!
That was today!
And P.S.....no curtain in the dorm and no lock in the bathroom. How crazy czech students are!
7/30/11 Raining all day
Walk around the city and got wet...
7/31/11 Dream in Prague
It is a great adventure so far. Heidi and Sarah are cute and cool. I am really so lucky to have them with me in this trip. We successfully made to the hospital today and Heidi had her test and treatment. Some people do not speak English, but we can communicate with them surprisingly well with some kind of body language. Language becomes unnecessary anymore.
It was so beautiful in the castle area, and the old town, too.
I don't think I can finish that tonight, and I will try write more about this trip after I go back to US.
8/1/2011 Kutna Hora
It is a nice and quite town, not as many tourist as in Prague. The bone church has 40,000 people buried in there. Kind of gloomy, but it is a place definitely worth visiting once. We had a walk through the city town and had a fantastic lunch with the soup I want-polevca (garlic soup). We running to the train station to catch up the train at 3:00, which I think Is really fun. It took an hour to get to Kutna Hora.
Back to Prague, I finally mailed my postcards in the main post office in Prague. A gentlemen helped me since people there do not speak English. It is a quite adventure these two days...
Now we planned to head to the cave restaurant-Pevek for dinner. Exited!
Talk to Heidi a lot about science, and I don't know if I should or not.
8/2/11 I don't want to be back
Finally, summer comes back to Prague! We got sunshine today and it was quite warm. I can wear my T-shirt and skirt that I can never wear during the past few days!
I sent more postcard today, and it is always feel sweet to write the postcard. I pretty much be myself today. Walk alone around the city. First is old town area. It is quite nice just walk there for a whole day. I bought some gifts and souvenirs from Manufactura, which is really nice store. People there are quite nice and introduce everything to you.
Then I cross Charles Bridge again under the sun. Everything is different under the sunshine other than rain. Lennon wall is in the little town, people started to draw John.Cannon style graffiti and Beatle lyrics on the wall since 1980 and then it become a site seeing point in Prague. Walk back through Charles Bridge I bought a CD from a local Jazz band and took a picture with them. I feel young again at that moment.
Walking down the river, two couples helped me took the pictures. People I met here are really nice, they all trying to help.
A young man singing by the river, people chatting, and sunshine all are over the river. I saw another face of Prague today.
Then I came to the dancing house, which is a controversy building in Prague new town. Very cute though, let me thought about the buildings in MIT. But it is away cutter than that.
Meet Heidi and Sarah in KFC, we are almost there at the same time. We grab some food in grocery store and then chatting and eating in the dorm for now.
"Can we afford it" ----one dollar beer said by Heidi when we all out of Kc
8/3/11 last day in Prague
I will be on the train very soon. Got up at 8:30 and packed all my stuff. I dreamed about him last night. That means I really should be back home now. The dorm is quite nice, except the lady at registration cannot speak any English. I will miss this dorm a lot. Left a note to our neighbor Musel, hoping he has seen our note. He helped us a lot in choosing restaurant and bar. I hope I can say Thank you in front of him... And P.S he is hot.
Head to the train station in a minute.
Now I am on a train back to Berlin. For some reason, they turned off the air conditioning and it is very hot. I have to distracted myself by writing my journals. I think I am running between winter and summer for several times. In Prague main train station I found wifi and post some pictures in Prague. It was kind of a mess for my pictures now because I did not have wifi all these days. I try to take any pictures as I can because I don't want to leave. But still I am so happy I can be back to US tomorrow!
Czech and Germany are totally two different worlds. When I just past the boarder of these two countries, I can really tell that. Within an hour I will be in Berlin again. The sky is so blue today and the farmers are harvesting corns. I hope I can open a window to breath.
Young people on the train are chatting about their happy or unhappy hostel experience. It seems like they are from different countries and met in the hostel, heading to Berlin together. I want to have the similar experience but I don't want to be alone for a long time. Traveling by yourself is a precious experience, though. I learned a lot from this trip. But now I need a hug.
Today I took the train from Berlin to Prague. It quite surprised me that if you have not reserved the seat, there won't be a seat for you. And there are lots of people on the train, even seating on the floor or in front of a toilet. Quite like china, though.
But the good thing is I asked a Asian girl where I can find the seat, and she is Chinese! You can hardly find Chinese in Germany... Then we can chat, and it won't be boring for 4 and a half hour without seat(we get the seat in the half way). We talked about a lot of things going on in china, and I found out I was so easy to be moved by something now. Be young again, because of the trip? I don't know....
The gentlemen by my side was nice, too. He told us a lot about the history and important places in Prague and help me defend my seat when I went to the restroom. We always met good people. I am lucky.
Then I meet Heidi and her roommate Sarah in the train station and they are from Austria. When we got into the dorm, found out the lady at the registration can not speak English. So happy and lucky Heidi can speak German. Then we went to restaurant and had dinner: very oily pork with beer!
That was today!
And P.S.....no curtain in the dorm and no lock in the bathroom. How crazy czech students are!
7/30/11 Raining all day
Walk around the city and got wet...
7/31/11 Dream in Prague
It is a great adventure so far. Heidi and Sarah are cute and cool. I am really so lucky to have them with me in this trip. We successfully made to the hospital today and Heidi had her test and treatment. Some people do not speak English, but we can communicate with them surprisingly well with some kind of body language. Language becomes unnecessary anymore.
It was so beautiful in the castle area, and the old town, too.
I don't think I can finish that tonight, and I will try write more about this trip after I go back to US.
8/1/2011 Kutna Hora
It is a nice and quite town, not as many tourist as in Prague. The bone church has 40,000 people buried in there. Kind of gloomy, but it is a place definitely worth visiting once. We had a walk through the city town and had a fantastic lunch with the soup I want-polevca (garlic soup). We running to the train station to catch up the train at 3:00, which I think Is really fun. It took an hour to get to Kutna Hora.
Back to Prague, I finally mailed my postcards in the main post office in Prague. A gentlemen helped me since people there do not speak English. It is a quite adventure these two days...
Now we planned to head to the cave restaurant-Pevek for dinner. Exited!
Talk to Heidi a lot about science, and I don't know if I should or not.
8/2/11 I don't want to be back
Finally, summer comes back to Prague! We got sunshine today and it was quite warm. I can wear my T-shirt and skirt that I can never wear during the past few days!
I sent more postcard today, and it is always feel sweet to write the postcard. I pretty much be myself today. Walk alone around the city. First is old town area. It is quite nice just walk there for a whole day. I bought some gifts and souvenirs from Manufactura, which is really nice store. People there are quite nice and introduce everything to you.
Then I cross Charles Bridge again under the sun. Everything is different under the sunshine other than rain. Lennon wall is in the little town, people started to draw John.Cannon style graffiti and Beatle lyrics on the wall since 1980 and then it become a site seeing point in Prague. Walk back through Charles Bridge I bought a CD from a local Jazz band and took a picture with them. I feel young again at that moment.
Walking down the river, two couples helped me took the pictures. People I met here are really nice, they all trying to help.
A young man singing by the river, people chatting, and sunshine all are over the river. I saw another face of Prague today.
Then I came to the dancing house, which is a controversy building in Prague new town. Very cute though, let me thought about the buildings in MIT. But it is away cutter than that.
Meet Heidi and Sarah in KFC, we are almost there at the same time. We grab some food in grocery store and then chatting and eating in the dorm for now.
"Can we afford it" ----one dollar beer said by Heidi when we all out of Kc
8/3/11 last day in Prague
I will be on the train very soon. Got up at 8:30 and packed all my stuff. I dreamed about him last night. That means I really should be back home now. The dorm is quite nice, except the lady at registration cannot speak any English. I will miss this dorm a lot. Left a note to our neighbor Musel, hoping he has seen our note. He helped us a lot in choosing restaurant and bar. I hope I can say Thank you in front of him... And P.S he is hot.
Head to the train station in a minute.
Now I am on a train back to Berlin. For some reason, they turned off the air conditioning and it is very hot. I have to distracted myself by writing my journals. I think I am running between winter and summer for several times. In Prague main train station I found wifi and post some pictures in Prague. It was kind of a mess for my pictures now because I did not have wifi all these days. I try to take any pictures as I can because I don't want to leave. But still I am so happy I can be back to US tomorrow!
Czech and Germany are totally two different worlds. When I just past the boarder of these two countries, I can really tell that. Within an hour I will be in Berlin again. The sky is so blue today and the farmers are harvesting corns. I hope I can open a window to breath.
Young people on the train are chatting about their happy or unhappy hostel experience. It seems like they are from different countries and met in the hostel, heading to Berlin together. I want to have the similar experience but I don't want to be alone for a long time. Traveling by yourself is a precious experience, though. I learned a lot from this trip. But now I need a hug.
Travel in Berlin 7/26~7/29
7/27/11
All day talk… and plus conference dinner and Japanese game. I video taped Carl playing the game. Remind me to show that on the lab meeting or something…
7/28/11
The last day of the conference.
Say goodbye to many friends. I couldn’t say goodbye nowadays…
Then to the checkpoint Charlie, which is all the German people ashamed of. It started to rain, finally, with so much beautiful and dark cloud everyday. Took bus 200, to the museum island. Carl recommend Pergamonmuseum and Neues Museum. He said I must go and put “wow” and “Excellent” on the tour guide book and handed to me. So… They are amazing, to those people will go to Berlin one day: You have to go to these two museum.
“Head to Prague tomorrow…Again, exited…”
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Travel in Beｒlin 7/26~7/29
7/26/11
City Tour in Berlin with two German Girls and and a Dutch guy (he is quite like Arjan, by the way). It was a beautiful day. We walk down the Under den Linden and had Currywurst. And Brandenbuger Tor, gendamenmarkt, Beliner Dom, Reichstasgebaeude, Posdamer Platz, and Berlin wall…
Then we head to the bar with a bunch of girls. “Almost drunk in Belin....because of Jägermeister...” ---Facebook status. I remember I cannot walk straight, but they promised me they would me would send me home safely.
7/27/11
All day talk… and plus conference dinner and Japanese game. I video taped Carl playing the game. Remind me to show that on the lab meeting or something…
7/28/11
The last day of the conference.
Say goodbye to many friends. I couldn’t say goodbye nowadays…
Then to the checkpoint Charlie, which is all the German people ashamed of. It started to rain, finally, with so much beautiful and dark cloud everyday. Took bus 200, to the museum island. Carl recommend Pergamonmuseum and Neues Museum. He said I must go and put “wow” and “Excellent” on the tour guide book and handed to me. So… They are amazing, to those people will go to Berlin one day: You have to go to these two museum.
“Head to Prague tomorrow…Again, exited…”
Monday, July 25, 2011
Travel Journal 7/24 and 7/25
072411
I walked in the old street of Berlin and found out that the whole city is like a mysterious castle. Drinking beer in the Nikolaiviertel, the Alt-Berliner Milieu, I try to think about what it was like when Ibsen and many eminent writers enjoyed their time here.
Berlin is quite, except the sound of Subway. No one will across the street if the signal is red. People are nice even if they cannot speak English. They will try to make you understand. I think I understand every sentence they talked in German with me, through their body language or even their eyes. A lot of tourists ask me directions and how to buy subway tickets in Berlin when it is the first day I got here. I am not like a tourist, really? Maybe I just walk and think. There is always an old man standing by the wall and look at it. They are very old people and it seems like they never wanna leave…
072511
It was all day talk…Still cold and even colder than yesterday. Carl talked about my work for today’s presentation, and almost the whole talk is about CrtJ regulatory mechanisms. I was so nervous during that time, maybe because it is the first time my study is presented in front of so many people and in front of Max-Planck-Society… In the poster session, a Japanese professor was so interested in my work and it turned out he was working in Carl’s lab 10 years ago and knowing Dong and Sylvie very well. How small the world is, especially in a so specialized conference. I need much more sleep… I drank four cups of coffee today but still... I hate jet lag!
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