An adventurer called Jay, life is my greatest adventure. I cycle, snow/kite board, boulder, and more. This energy of mine, is to spread to people. I am going to be the brightness spreading it.
It’s really a lot! At the beginning I just want to write one for all, but now it’s four!
This is going to Heidelberg with Rada and her Czech friends. And one stupid mistake I made.
Okay, it’s 29.10 already in semester. Some friends visit Rada and they are going to Heidelberg, and I went with them.
Actually she complained to me about them a little, hee hee.
But however we are going!
In the morning bus it takes two hours. Really close. I can’t believe now the concept of distance is so different. within 5 hour you can take bus from Taipei to Kaohsiung, and it’s like what I said I never want to do anymore, and now 8 hour is just a normal bus ride.
After arrived, we collected information about this place, and decided to go straight to the famous castle and walk all the way back.
So we took the bus, it’s quite a long way.
And when we enter, it’s a steep up
After some really hard up, we finally arrived. Just half way there…
And then we arrive the entrance. The fee will be 4 with study-chip, I’ll definitely go in. But Rada wanted to wait outside, but is convinced to come with us after all.
It’s a pity that it’s under maintenance construction.
And then some typical Heidelberg photos
there is a pharmacy museum
posers
look! I’m an magical unicorn! Hey Charlie~ Hey Charlie~
all kinds of statue
ah~
Jupiter
All place in Germany so far is under the shadow of reconstruct of WWII
All the ruins is a bug thing to people, but I’m not really into this
look at some real poser!
And mocking
And then we went to the garden
OKAY, enough of the castle, we went out
We went to the bidge
It’s said you must touch these mouse for good luck
Well, after the castle and the bridge, there’s nothing much left.Only the history of the university and the student prison.
and the same shopping area
well, we went early to the bus stop, and stayed in Macdonald again, and book the tickets
We went to the bus just to found that we are not on the list, strange, the same number but we are just not on the list.
the truth is that I booked it on the wrong date, cause I was looking for other trip and didn’t put it back.
but it’s good that I can cancel it and get all the money to buy the next bus.
A small incident, took us one hour to fix it.
well, I’m not always so perfect to do everything, but this one ended fine, that’s what all I need. I was so nervous if there’s any consequence of wrong booking.
Well, the last trip is here, and then the semester go on, I’ll be the master student, bike deliver, soccer, rock climbing guy, and too busy.
First chapter of life in Germany, it’s so good to have a good friend to show me how the students here and get to start fun in here. Though we didn’t meet often after this, and Rada went back to Czech, we are still cool buddies!
It “should " be Rada, Dominica, Ana, me, and Ahmed.
See the photo and you’ll know why there’s a “on should.
Yes, Ahmed never showed up.
We booked an early bus, so in the morning there’s no one can help it.
Ahmed totally thought I didn’t book the tickets for him.
Well then we arrived Köln airport.
Why airport? Cause the connection is only five euro.
After the S-Bahn we arrived.
It’s not a good weather at first. Cloudy, even rained a bit.
For me, after the big church there’s nothing to see.
And Rada is totally not impressed. That day I wonder why, but I know it when I’m in Prag. It’s almost the same, and Köln is smaller and more dirty!
the bitch face of Rada
After the church, I’m thinking of taking the boat ride.
But when we arrived the port, it rains.
Okay, we went for shelter.
Dominica was in a situation of coat too warm and without it too cold.
Then we went into one Italian coffee place. A hot chocolate is just right!
And what I remember is they started to talk girl issues like which guy looks nice but acts bad. Or guys of Erasmus are like going around and playing with girls. So they are basically gossips.
As the only guy and not hanging around with Erasmus, it’s kind of not my business.
Well, still it’s interesting to found these kind of things are the same worldwide.
When the rain finally stopped, the sun came out and it’s a nice day!
Kind of a nice design of a park
one thing happens every iron bridge
And cross the bridge we are in the new town area
we decided to go on a tower for sightseeing
a graph of the city
houses not very old
a lot better in the sunny weather
and then next we walked into the shopping area of Koln. It’s somehow better than Zeil! for the brands and felling. Dominika always says she hates the Donor shop everywhere, and she like here because there’s none of it.
For me it’s really not a place I would enjoy walking through, I have crowd-phobia. People to me is just never a good attraction.
But we found some nice things.
they are just twins!
and I decided to show some skills
Well, then it’s about time to go back, our bus is at 7. After we arrived the airport, it took us some time to find the bus stop. And we went there with some pressure but on time, just to found it’s two hours late.
So, it’s waiting time.
Luckily I got my book! But I still have the cold from Oktoberfest, so it’s not so cozy. we waited at the stop for a while and decided to go back into the airport,
One thing I need to complain about the bus (yes, more complaints about bus) You never know what happen to the bus, no signs, no people to ask, sometimes not even online! So as a passenger you never know, and the bus will go without you if you’re not there, just assholes!
But luckily we arrived Frankfurt not too late, I ran to catch the tram, or the next one will be 30 minutes. Koln, get!
And then, the last one, Heidelberg!
P.S. the actual time of travel is 24.09 Taunas, 04.10 Koln, 15.10 Luzern, 29.10 Hidelberg. I just made a mistake while writing, but just let it be like that.
Last time I wrote about Rada in the intensive German course, and she showed me what a Erasmus life is like.
As we are the three Mensa musketeers, I’m still in the serious German learning mood, but others are more used to the exchange semester, and enjoying the summer.
上回提到的拉達同學，是一個專業的艾拉穆拉森學生，在捷克接待很多同學，自己也出來交換。
帶我開啟歐洲學生生涯的大門，比起我認真學德文，他們還在享受暑假模式。
And since I live in Kelsterbach and with no traffic card yet, I didn’t join Rada’s various invitations.
But after I finally settled down, got my study chip and live in Frankfurt, I’m ready for the life in Germany!
We went on three trips, one studifahren to Luzern and Zürich, one Köln, and one Heidelberg.
這次要說的是瑞士、科隆、海德堡，一共三篇。
請當成兩種語言的獨立文章，前後不影響的獨立事件。
The first we went is studifahren. Around one the bus arrived punctuality. And I slept all the way like dead, though I heard Rada complained about she need two sits to have a good sleep on a bus. Thank god i don’t have the feet of 179cm, I can easily sit. Lol
然後，又是上次去啤酒節的studifahren一點發車，竟然準時抵達！
我當然睡死在車上，不過拉小姐表示她需要躺雙人座，好險我沒有歐洲身高跟很長的腿。
短腿坐廉航也很舒服的概念。
We were waken up at seven for one waterfall. Well, it’s said to be the biggest in Europe, but for an old plain terrain, it’s okay.
七點，瀑布。烏來瀑布都比他強。唸在你是一個古老的大陸，就看看吧。
But the weather is raining a little bit and the sun is not up yet, so it’s not so “schön".
下車的時候下起大雨，太陽也還沒出來，照片當然很鳥。 Then the next stop is Luzern, a city said to be like in fairy tales.
What I remember is a clean lake, nice bridge, and a strange lion statue.
We walked around, watching the weather getting better.
盧森，乾淨的湖水、漂亮的橋，還有一個奇怪的獅子雕像。
網路評語是童話般的城鎮。
但是歐洲童話就是這樣啊，根本跟台灣民間故事的背景到處看都一樣。
我不再吃這套了
It’s Kihmet, Rada, Dominica, me, Kate
the paintings on walls are really nice
Statues are always my favorite
奇怪的雕像，我就是愛亂拍各種雕像
And here is the most famous lion in this city, I really wonder why
創世紀的獅子
then it’s time for the nice weather
they even have chinese here wow!
更上層樓? 中文出現的意義是?
Around noon we went back to the meeting point, with everyone waiting in line for toilet.
But the guide just rushed everyone back in car. And we lost two girls, just before we left the city, they called. Too bad we can’t see the tragedy, but still we wasted a lot of time.
At first we got a free city walking tour. It’s always nice to get it.
But the only bad thing is that after this, you got nothing to do. 有兩個小時的市區導覽，當然免費導覽很好，但是逛完之後，就沒東西了，因為重要的都看完了，加上走路很累的XD
The group decide is also a Chaos. Rada don’t want to be in the Indian group because of the smell, but we don’t have much choice left, every other group is kind of full.
She also complained about the time she worked in the Emirate. The man don’t take showers and smells. Kid are so rude to them, treating like servants. The only good thing is the payment. Or she really don’t like the mosque which wakes her up every day at four. And the culture there.
We finished around four, and seen most of the city.
What I remember is nice river, over one thousand drinkable fountain. The city is quite typical, but clean.
走完這個城市，恩，河流、可以喝的山泉水噴泉，很乾淨，沒有陸客團的摧殘
After that we went to the supermarket, but it’s still super expensive, we grab a beer and keep walking.
當然這裡的物價是超市也貴到昏
Talked about the refugee problem in Poland on a chair at the riverside , which really caused some issues. And other European problems. Actually I’m not that good at European history nor geography, so I can’t really say anything.
Actually before the three trips, we also go on some events in Frankfurt held either by the exchange student office or the EMA.
其實這篇是序章，在真正三次旅行前呢，我們還有一次交換學生辦公室主辦的登山
This one is the hiking trip to Taunaus, the only mountain nearby.
桃努斯山就在法蘭克福旁邊，搭車就可以到
The one I can found to get some hills so far.
附近沒什麼坡 這附近大概就六百多而已
It’s an early Saturday morning, great weather, we met at Hauptbahnhof. Always the Starbucks.
週六早晨，我們永遠都是在星巴克集合
We take S5 and then U3 to the end.
And then it’s hiking time!
搭地鐵之後，就出發吧！
It’s not really steep and wild, but still the condition is a lot better than the concrete path in Taipei. Though Taipei really got lots of great mountains.
What a pity.
這裡基本上山又大又平，但是比起台北的水泥登山步道，好太多啦
只能說台北還可以加強對於步道的看法
My blood bursts when I saw mountain bikers! I can’t calm the eager to come next time for it!
Well, it ends up with flat tire, in another post.
看到許多登山車在這裡，當然就是熱血沸騰的時候啦！
前篇我也寫過，後來在這裡以爆胎收場
Well, the leader is Elisa, the coordinator of Erasmus, and she’s surprised when I didn’t know her.
But we are like so segregated from this school that we only know our professors.
艾莉莎是這次的領隊，也是辦公室的召集人，所以我不認識她讓她很驚訝
我們的整個碩班跟這些交換學生是完全分開不同系統的啊
Also I remember a pair of drunken buddies, one Spanish and one Mexican.
One Finland guy.
Italian girl.
我還記得兩個宿醉未醒的大哥
一個芬蘭人
一個義大利女生
And of course the three musketeers!
然後就是我們三個啦！
Crazy selfies in the woods.
各種自拍是當然的
After we reached the top,
山頂風光
And then Ahmed took out a book to read!
We just messed around with him and he was so annoyed.
I haven’t even use the annoying orange skills!
After that, we took another path down and was in Kronberg.
Well, I’m not a fan of crazy drinking events and I got the Asian flush, so I’m not really suitable to drink also.
But the Oktoberfest is one of the famous events in Germany, that’s why it’s also in my bucket list.
That’s why I chose to go for it.
既然慕尼黑啤酒節那麼有名，來到德國當然必須踩過一次，就讓我們出發吧
Ps. 最近筆電送修，手機發文實在太困難了，敬請見諒
This time I travel with studifahren, an agency organize cheap ways to travel. With sleeping in the bus reduce the cost of accommodation and time, and end up wandering in the city like a sleepless zombie.
這次的旅行方式是學生旅行團，專門舉辦半夜發車清晨抵達的旅行，然後半夜再發車，清晨再回到出發的地方。
這種兩天不睡覺的行程，基本上在城市裏的時候就像是一個殭屍一樣的睡眠不足。
我個人是已經不想再這樣玩了，太累了
The schedule this time is 1 am at Hauptbahnhof, it’s the first time I take a long distance bus in Germany.
I arrived the station a little bit earlier, but just to found a messy dirty place with tons of different people going to different places. And there’s no sign for the bus stop, so I just walk around and ask if anyone is going for the same trip.
Fortunately, I found some others and we waited for the bus which delayed for 1 hour. We departed at 2.
And going into the bus is also creepy, cause the last stop was Köln, everyone is already sleeping, and in order not to disturb anyone and looking for a seat is not easy.
But I end up sitting next to the door, and others are a group of seven girls from Köln, they are all exchange students coming from various countries.
So, I choosed to join them. They are so prepared that they even all got the München outfit! It was so cool.
To be honest, I’m still shy during that time, everything is new, just arrived in Europe, my English tongue is still growing back slowly.
他們快到的時候紛紛起床，換上了慕尼黑啤酒節的服飾，整個做全套的，太神啦。
So, we arrived at 830. They decided to go for a spot in the tent first. The festival is like any German festival, but a lot of big tents set up by the famous beer producers.
We finally found a place to squeeze in, and got a good tent.
And the journey of drinking from 9 to 9 begins!
八點半抵達慕尼黑，下車後考慮先觀光還是直接啤酒，決定先去帳篷佔位子。
其實除了各酒莊搭起來的大帳篷外，就是個一般的園遊會。
九點進去之後，保證讓你直的進去，橫的出來！
從九點喝到九點，我也是醉了
Well, 1liter of beer is 11euro, kind of expensive. But it is for the atmosphere of the fest.
其實裡面物價很高，一杯一公升啤酒十一歐，根本貴翻天，但是為了這個節慶氣氛，喝！
One amazement is the waitress can serve ten beers at a time, super strong!
值得一提的是這裡的女服務生超猛，可以一次送十杯啤酒，完美展現德國鋼鐵意志的力與美
And before long people started to challenge to drink the whole 1 liter at once. The drunken drive starts!
然後當然有酒就會出現神經病，開始了各桌挑戰一口乾。
The dude next to our table really shows the technic by covering his hand over the cup and place the cup completely upside down and finished it! Wow!
旁邊有個貌不驚人的小哥，一手壓住杯口，直接倒扣在嘴上，咕咚咕咚直接就這麼乾了！
After one beer and some bread, it’s around two. And we really want to have a break.
第二輪喝完，今天只吃了啤酒加麵包，完全就是澱粉雙重奏，該休息一下了。
Some of us went out and walked around the fest at first but then the second time we decided to go outside around the city.
一開始出去透透氣，後來乾脆跑到城裡面走走
Even though I’ve been to this city before, getting some fresh air and out of the repeating music is still nice.
雖然慕尼黑已經來過，但是離開那個氣氛透氣真的好多了
Well, the Rathaus, park are like cliches, but I saw some FKK people at the other side of the park. No, I’m not drunk, they are all naked!
公園裡面看到天體營，其他就都沒什麼了
Around five we went back and saw the people off from work and came. The night is always young.
五點左右回來，已經需要排隊進場啦。
Around that time we have to wait in line to get in. While we’re in, people are standing on the chair and dancing.
當看到群眾都已經在椅子上跳舞，真是一起瘋吧！
Well, this is the charm of fest and crowd? People just gone crazy.
所謂樹大必有枯枝，人多變成白癡，加上酒精就是集體耍憨的時間啦！
Our bus will come at 12, but we cannot do this anymore. We leave for MacDonald at nine. After the exhausting day, we are all blank minded.
但是到九點真的受不了了，我們決定撤。儘管車子十二點才會來。
就看見一群神情萎頓的人在麥當勞呆坐。
After departure, we were all dead. I remember I arrived five at Frankfurt, and have to wait 40 minutes for the s-Bahn to Kelsterbach.
上車之後立馬睡死，抵達法蘭克福還要等四十分鐘的車。
This day is the last day I’m staying there, I used my whole day to move because it goes from complete west to the most east part of Frankfurt.
今天也是我搬家的日子，花了一整天，從西部跑到東部。
The night I arrived, with a bad shower, sleeping without any pillow or blanket, I was sick for two weeks.
晚上在疲勞、水溫不定的浴室、空蕩蕩的床夾雜下，我感冒了。
Though I got a tough start at the new house, but the fantastic adventure will begin, in the house of
ADAM-OPEL STAßE
This is a true palace! The story will begin in the next post, and keeps going on!
As my intensive German course begins, my life as a student in Germany begins.
In the coming month, I’ll get to know lots of cool people and go on cool trips with them.
Slowly blending into the culture and the city.
隨著德文課的開始，我終於身為一名德國的學生上課啦！
接下來的一個月，即將發生什麼事情呢？
自從踏上人生偉大的航道之後，這裡是新的起點，從以前的黃金梅利號，要變成德國坦克啦
-本文由不打勤，不打懶，專打不長眼的盲人杖協會贊助發出- -英文敘事，中文笑笑就好，認真你就輸了，教練，我想寫德文；現在放棄，贊助就結束囉- Just like all the great stories, it starts with a sunny, peaceful day. 就像是每個故事一樣，在很久很久以前
I woke up early and go to the school 30 minutes earlier. Just to found I waited at the wrong building. 一個美麗的早晨，我一樣花了快一個小時到學校，提早半小時抵達，卻在最後五分鐘發現等錯樓，4號建築的410，我在1號建築的410
And the first class was so difficult to me, with such a long non-German time, and the one year of non-IQ in the ROC army, I was idiot at that time, 第一堂課呀，我完全就像個傻子一樣的一臉矇逼。三年沒有聽過德文了，加上中間一年可是連腦子都沒有用的中華民國國軍，智商大概只剩派大星等級
Actually I already forgot who was there that day, but I still remember one event, and this is the first time to know the girl who love Taiwan sooooo much more than I do. 第一天到底有誰呢? 我實在記不清了，不過呢，最重要的是發生了一件意外，讓我知道有人可以這麼愛台灣，而不是賣台灣
About 40 mins after the class started, one girl stormed in and spoke very angrily to our Teacher Ioannis, that how she was checked on the bus, and she just arrived and the study-chip was still at school. The Germans speak almost no English to her, and said something of “Stupid blondy" And eventually got a 7 euro ticket for forgetting to bring the ticket with her, instead of 60 euro. 開始上課後大概四十分鐘吧，衝進了一個女生，用憤怒的口氣向老師道歉，說明為什麼會遲到。在公車上被查票員查到，而她說他有學生証，今天開學第一天要去領，但是那些查票員分明聽的懂英文，卻死都不說，只說了幾句"蠢金髮妞" 然後開了7歐元的忘記帶月票，而不是逃票的60歐
And this girl, is Rada. 來自捷克的拉達小姐
And during the break, we all asked what really happened, cause the storm came too fast and we care about our classmate.
And the topic changed to which country we are from, we got Poland, Pakistan, Turkey, India. And Rada is from Czech. She surprised so much when I said I’m from Taiwan, but I’m more shocked when she said she was in Kaosiung for one semester! She even still keep a photo in Liohe night market! She loved Taiwan so much when Ioannis questioned my nationality, “is ROC China?"
and who’s Ioannis? He’s our teacher. He’s a Germany born Greek. He got tons of jokes and got the humor. Though he is often tire and busy, I know why now, he owns two kneipes and teach in the morning and work in it during the night. But he’s still a really cool guy.
Another great debate is “Either Czech is east Europe or not", he demonstrated the whole “Germany center" attitude of Germans. But as talking about the whole communism, polish and czech feels really bad.
他有時候會故意問敏感問題，像是剛剛的台灣中國問題，還有另外一個"捷克是不是東歐"。完全就是一個德國中心主義的完美展現阿！而在前蘇維埃政權前提到共產或是左派有多好的時候，當然波蘭的朋友們強烈反對阿。當然德國自己的政治問題他也有說，像是類似納粹極右派政黨正在慢慢復闢，而我對他提問希特勒回來了這部電影呢，他則嚴肅的表示，這一點也不好笑，人們應該懼怕、戒慎恐懼這段歷史，而不是當作玩笑，時時都要避免重蹈覆轍 ————————————————————————————————————————– enough of the bias, let’s introduce some more guys! 當然，各種政治不正確到此為止，來看看其他人吧
This is Ahmed, in the class, he’s the one answers “darum" when questions of German have no answer.
But is it another bad joke? cause it sounds just like “durum doner" even though he said this first.
at the next month, we are like the three musketeers of Mensa, lunch together.
He’s more of a quiet guy and chill.
來自土耳其的阿赫滅德，沉默寡言，英文不太好，有機器人的語調。基本上我們就是午餐三人眾啦 ————————————————————————————————————————– And we had Gözde, another hard-working Turkish girl. 哥自德，土耳其認真型女孩，來念電腦碩士
The Polish three: Adrianna, Orga, Dominica. Pardon me if I spell it wrong, it was too long ago. 三位波蘭小姐，基本上就是波蘭語迅速溝通他們舌頭還真的不是普通的快，可惡阿斯
Pakistan soccer buddies who always watch games too late and late for class. 巴基斯坦兄弟，每次都說熬夜看球遲到，大哥，我來德國看德甲西甲英超根本完美時間
Ottma comes from Mexico, also a cool guy but I’d never get the chance to hang out and know this guy. 奧特馬，跟歐巴馬沒關係，他也不是黑人不用閉嘴
Tamara, the Jordanian who went to a trip and never come back to class again. 他馬拉，約旦女孩，去旅遊之後再也沒有出現過
Jae-Yon, she’s from Korea, the only other East-Asian in the class, but not the typical Korean. Instead of joining the A1.1 Korean big pack, she’s a lone ranger, she was here for a long time and also went for something more than German in the classroom. 余在研，韓國女孩，但非典型。在初級班有一群像是少女時代+BIGBANG的韓國男女混和團體，不過他沒跟那些交換生一起來，沒有一起混，而是在這裡有個很充實的人生
Noman, a relatively old man, around thirty something or more. He’s in her for 7 years, but never taken any proper German class, so he wants to start from the basic grammar. 諾曼，不是大登陸。一個成年巴基斯坦男性，已經在德國七年了，學的馬路德語，因此現在補齊文法
Duy and Huang, young Vietnamese. 21 and starting to know Europe. Duy end up every week drinking in Ioannis kneipe. 兩個越南人，21歲小朋友，真的普遍害羞內向，不善與其他人溝通交流，最後杜伊更是每周到老師的酒館報到，就沒有去其他地方了，可惜
At the last week, school got budget to give us a free tour in the Dialog Museum, a museum to experience how it is to be blind. 學校補助一次的戶外教學，我們去了盲人體驗博物館，在全黑的環境裡面有自然、城市、馬路等環境體驗，最後在黑暗中酒吧嘗試點餐。
These are the classmates, but not all. 以上，族繁不及備載 ————————————————————————————————————————– That’s the German class, we’ll go to many more trips and have much more fun. The coming semester we still keep in touch. But the erasmus nature is change and moving, so one semester of friendship, and then we’ll meet each other in the other place and other time in the world!
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