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…”

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!

Time to update

    There are two weeks before the Germany trip.

    Things become beautiful behind a sunglasses.

     I don't know about Tango, now. The only way to figure it out is to leave the town....Like everybody else.

     Like my new phone, which let me share the images and thoughts every minute I want. And those funny apps I can play with.

     My Mum says they are like paintings, not photos.

Like the look I tie my hair, maybe it is time to change.Hope the summer will last longer.

 Have a good night!