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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…
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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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