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Now, the schedule of the following weeks are basically clear.

9/19-10/14 Intensive German course, everyday 9:00-12:30

Then the master course will begin.

For accommodation, I will stay in Kelsterbach until October 1, and then move to the house school provide.

過完第一個周末，我的未來幾周大致上確定啦

四個禮拜的密集德文班，然後碩士課程開學

而我會住在這個小鎮村三個禮拜，然後搬到前文提到的房子

感謝飛天小女警的努力

-中文英文分開寫，有同步到只是運氣好，不負責任翻譯，敬上-

My everyday routine is wake up at 6:30 prepare breakfast, and leave between 7:30-8:00

Well, the class starts at 9, and it takes me around 45 minutes to bike there.

Actually I have more time, but still it’s always better to leave earlier to be always on time.

基本上接下來這個月，就是天天早上六點半到七點起床，吃個早餐，

騎車45分鐘去上學，雖然我九點上課，不過我大概七點半到八點就會出門，到學校再簡單洗個臉吧。

After class usually I’m always starving, and we’ll eat lunch at the school.

It’s always nice to bike around and getting to know this city.

And always start along the river to have the best bike lane.

and the night? homework time!

流水帳做法：吃早餐-騎車-上課-中餐學生餐廳-下午到處晃晃-晚上做作業
真是不錯的生活呀
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Some random biking in Frankfurt 9/22

 Yeah, I forgot to say that I got a new bike! in the first week, I totally need it!

I found it on a second hand website of ebay. Sunday afternoon I just easily walked ten minutes to the seller. They are an old couple, but since they only know German, so I had to ask some help from Hélène and ask her to come along.
It’s said 180, but eventually I got it by 140. I know this bike is like five years old, but still in great condition! I’d say I’m lucky.

上一篇沒有提到的事，是我買了一台二手車。沒錯，抵達德國什麼都還沒找好，就先買了一台車。EBAY有個網站專門賣德國二手物，而我剛好在這個鎮上發現一台不錯的的登山車，跟我的舊boulder差不多，只不過是碟煞，讓我覺得有點困擾。
當然我還是得麻煩我的法國正妹室友充當德文支援，因為賣家幾乎不會英文。看到車子之後，幾乎跟新的一樣，而且他們還洗過了。試過變速、煞車，一切狀態都很良好，買啦！
網站上標180，但是還是要殺價一下的呀，他們很慷慨的直接讓我殺到140，我猜他們也只是想脫手吧XD
Deore 系統，有點重，慣性沒有Boulder好不知道為什麼，檢查過後都沒問題，但是還是覺得很托。

The cliche
歐洲必備情人鎖鐵橋

Well, sometimes a selfie
肥宅自拍

Eschenheimer Tur
舊城門的一部分遺跡，旁邊的現代高樓，形成強烈的對比

這裡越南人非常的多

車站

One morning just bike and saw mariculas river scene
有一天， 早上起來刷刷牙~ 看見~妹妹~在洗澡 喔不對
出門整條梅茵河上煙霧繚繞，有種仙境的感覺

歐洲銀行

 裝置藝術

東港XD

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To the place where Rhein and Main meet 9/25

 It’s nice sun, but a little bit chilly, so I took the S-bahn home XD

大太陽，所以我早早出發，但是我錯了。涼什麼，老子都不老子了。完全就是假的太陽啦

beware! there will be tanks passing by!
竟然有坦克標誌，真是嚇死寶寶了

cross this bridge will be Mainz
過河就是美茵茲

there’s a whole bike lane, 200KM, surround Frankfurt
環大法蘭克福自行車道-200K

S-bahn station

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Taunas biking

This is an off-road route. I took my SJ-4000, but the film quality is not so good. I didn’t have any good screen shots.

And I got a flat tire on the mountain so I have to walk back down and take the train home.

到周邊小山越野一下，但是山狗的品質加上我的裝備不齊全，影片完全晃，角度也太差，就沒有放照片啦，之後去的有好一點的影片，等到我寫到二月的時候再說吧XD

話說沒想到在山裡面還可以中鐵釘，下坡沒下到，在山裡牽車真的不是一件舒適的事情

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Bike to Hanau 11/06

Another nice morning I went to Hanau. This time I already moved to my new house. Kelsterbach is on the west, and my new house is the most east part of Frankfurt.
入冬前最後一騎，哈瑙。 這時候我已經搬家了，不過我就在這裡一起寫一寫。

Basically I followed the bike lane along the river, and all the way to Hanau. I originally want to go further, but the weather is really something I haven’t get used to yet.
The original destination is Aschaffenburg, professor Kenworthy mentioned it in class, so I tried.
 上課的時候教授說了一個大概60K距離的地方，河濱沿路騎過去不錯，所以我就想說試試看。但是，已經很冷了，儘管我腿套袖套都戴上了，還是很冷。所以中途就停了一個小鎮，就轉方向去哈瑙。

 It’s still too cold, so I decided to return.

But I stopped by Hanau, the place where the Grun brothers were born.
The legend of fairy tale, the Fairy Tale Boulervard in Germany, begins here.

 哈瑙，格林兄弟的出生地，德國的童話大道，在這裡開始

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Well, this is the transportation in Frankfurt of me. YES! Biking!
It’s so easy to bring the bike up a train, so I used it more.
After these, it’s winter, totally too cold. And I took the deliveroo job, bike everyday, and you won’t want to bike anymore on weekends. Plus, I got to do all the assignments.

於是我在法蘭克福就都是用腳踏車到處跑啦，單車上大眾運輸超方便的，所以我用滿多的
爆胎、太冷我都直接上車XD
第一個月騎的車大概就這樣，之後就完全冷到昏，而且接了單車外送，反而就沒時間也不想再騎車了。

First is to introduce where am I. I’m at Kelsterbach.

This is a town near to the airport, people live here are either old or airport workers. Some other can’t afford house in Frankfurt also lives here.

It’s just nearby the river Main, really nice, I enjoy sitting under the sun and enjoy, write homework, read or just easily take a nap. Unfortunately I enjoy too much and have no photo here.

我住的這個地方呢，是一個叫做克斯特巴赫的小鎮，鄰近機場，交通機能普普，基本上住這裡的就是老人，或是機場員工，當然後來我知道一個找不到法蘭克福內的房子，只好住到這裡來的人。
基本上超過六點這裡就完全安靜的像是鬼城，安養天年呀

-我就像是90年代的港劇一樣，中文英文對不起來-

Now, it’s time to introduce the people in this house.

There’s one woman from Switzerland, Susanna

one girl from France, Hélène

one more room changes more frequently, one girl from Taiwan for three days of exhibition, Kong’s coworker, and some other I don’t remember

囉哩八嗦到了這裡，該來介紹一個這間房子的住戶啦
有一位瑞士來的小姐 蘇姍那
然後是來自法國的 伊蓮那
然後第三間房間還一直換房客，族繁不及備載

The house owner, Kong. He’s brought to Germany from Malaysia as a kid. Actually his Mandarin is not so good, so I use a mix of bad German and English to communicate with him. He I would consider kind of typical German man. I’m very grateful that he helped a lot of my settling down in Germany, gave me a solid foundation to go further.
So, since he’s Malaysian, who did I get the contact? His wife. She was also working in flight industry, they met in Singapore airlines. Now they were married and have a little monster right now.
Happily ever after.

屋主是來自馬來西亞的先生，不過小時後就來德國，長居德國，基本上個性習慣都算是個德國人，中文不太好，後來發現有些我們聊天有些誤會XDD 例如我想吃當地食物，他聽成了日式料理。
太太呢，是自稱漂亮人妻，都在機場認識之後呢，現在有個美滿幸福的家庭。

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So, back to the main theme this weekend, a goodbye.

Hélène is a train engineer, she is doing internship in the DB nearby, and that’s why she rent the house here.

Actually during the week I always saw her arrive home late and just have some light yogurt and fruit, then she went up stairs. It’s nice to always have some nice little talk, getting back my English tongue, knowing what’s life here, and how’s life in Paris. It’s a nice thing she’s not the typical French, she’s surprisingly open to internationality, broad of thoughts, the Paris in her eyes are also hard to live, guess engineer education is best at stick to the truth.

But she’s leaving this week, back home. That’s why a goodbye came so soon.

On Friday evening, she took me to Eisporthalle, that is a place like circus, festival, events, stands markets came for a couple of weeks and change place.
This time, it’s an amusement park!

It’s really a fun thing, Haven’t feel like a child for a long time. Reminds me of Disneyland.
Getting to know the city, the culture more from a girl a lot younger than me, Wow.

伊蓮娜是來自法國巴黎的火車工程師，她來得國實習半年，剛好這個禮拜結束，因此這棟房子新人來，舊人去，江山代有才人出阿。而她完全不像是典型的法國人，對於拒絕使用英文她覺得十分愚蠢，而巴黎也不是一個好城市，一樣工作條件差，人民水準低。這就是工程師教育造成的嗎，太專業了，PH値降低一點就是酸民啦。
二到四都看她十分晚出現在房子裡，然後簡單吃了點優格+水果，就上樓去了。我住在廚房對面，完全就是一個顧門口XD
禮拜五下午呢，她帶我去園遊會逛逛這個城市，這裡是採設施制，我們玩了碰碰車、鬼屋、旋轉飛輪，然後吃了法國的經典點心 煎餅

在討論嚴肅議題的時候，她完全不像是20歲，但是在玩耍的時候，大概像是12歲吧。還記得當初在漢堡也去過類似的遊樂設施園遊會，設施依舊，人事全非阿。
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On Saturday, she brought me to Mainz, a town nearby. She showed me the castle, the old wall, and church. Yes, now I know it’s the most important element in all German towns.

禮拜六呢，她帶我去隔壁的另外一個鎮-美茵茲。看了城堡、舊城牆、教堂。德國小鎮三元素，基本上到哪都是這樣… 可是教練，我想玩耍

And always you get hungry after walking, a nice little snack would be just great.

some more statues.

Typical wood house

Well, something I found cool is the public bike here. The gears are not in numbers, but using a graph is really easy for people to understand, nice!

這裡的公共單車，特別的地方是變速，用圖像來表示，瞎子都看的懂阿

After the snack, we came to the riverside. The riverbank park is nice, no gigantic dike, just close to the river easily. People just easily lay down, sit down along the river. Enjoy life!
Well, one thing funny is that today is actually cloudy, but she still got a little but sunburned. Well, being too white maybe not always a good thing in this case. Otherwise, everything is really enjoying.

吃了點小點充飢之後，咱們來到河濱公園看看。少了台北那樣的河堤，親水的態度好多了。儘管萊茵河其實船運很多，水不乾淨。但是還是很容易讓人們去親水，在河邊坐臥躺，享受生活。我們也席地而坐，如此慵懶的日子，讓我把初來乍到的緊張感消除不少。

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Well, the day ended soon. After we went back home, she need to start packing.
One thing I must mention here is that she is very good at baking cakes, she backed one cake as a goodbye gift before she left. Its good, but also bad, cause need to say goodbye to a new friend in such short time. As a totally new Frankfurter, it’s one hard thing to face. As I think of it now, still hard to bear. But a toward the next stage of life is always worth celebrating. After this cake, my life as a master student in Frankfurt, begins.

當然天下無不散的筵席，但是才來一個禮拜就即將跟一位室友說再見，也不是件容易的事阿。逛完了美茵茲，她就需要開始打包啦，而我就準備迎向真正的法蘭碩士生涯。過完這個周末，開始上密集德文班，即將新生活開始。

Farewell party-People in this picture is Susanna, Hélène, pretty housewife, Angus, and Thomas.

With a bunch of unknown, I arrived this city, Frankfurt.

This day, is September 13, 2016.

歷史上的今天：九月十三，洪喆譯抵達法蘭克福。"我的一小步，是全人類的一大步"

-每次都要附註：這完全是不負責任的描述與翻譯，完全不同步-

All I know, is the Airbnb I found in the FB group of Taiwanese in Frankfurt, and meet the professor on the next day.

So I met the cute couple, who’s the house owner, they are really friendly and managed everything.
They also came to the airport to get their aunt from Singapore.
I explained what’s the situation, that I don’t know when can I move out, and everything will be clear after I met professor Carolin.

我在臉書社團上找到的房東來機場接機，真是太感動了，當然也是因為他們姑媽也從新加坡飛來，而且時間差不多
然後呢，懷著一切未知，只知道明天去找教授，下禮拜開始上德文，我就住下來啦！

This is my room

And after settled down, they kindly drove me to DM, Aldi for food, and invite me to dinner.
the owner, Kong, helped me on Anmeldung, the proof of staying in Germany, SIM card, choosing the Telekom. And later he took me to Commerzbank and got an acount quickly.

房東很罩的幫我"入定"，不然我真的可以就地涅槃比較快XD 除了開車載我去買食物、sim卡，接下來的戶籍、銀行帳戶都很給力的幫我處理好了
第一天，就慷慨的請我吃當地的餐廳，到今天我都覺得這家餐廳很道地，從整間店都是老人知道的XD

來到德國，當然就是要從啤酒開始啦！

Well, since I didn’t get my study chip, I need to pay for transportation, but I got a bike from Kong, with the perfect weather, I went by bike everyday for three weeks.

the restaurant

how my room looks like in the morning，the attic
早晨出發，回頭望向我的房間，尖頂閣樓

bike, is in my blood!
從房東獲得一台腳踏車，好像是19吋的車架，阿魯巴專用，坐管降到最低

I went to see the house I will live in, it is still renovating, I was told to be available since October, three weeks.
接下來我即將住進去的"傳說級"房屋，我當時還不知道。當時還在整修，因為原本住戶剛搬走不久，我運氣不錯才住到這間房間的，有他的特殊性。不過呢，一切等到十月我才能入住，一切才要開始。

Bratwurst!

 EisenSteig, the bridge I will bike pass for the next three weeks
這座鐵橋我會騎車天天經過，看到不想看

 cool bike lane

 well, some easy meals. the routine is go to school, come back around 3 with desperate hunger. cook and eat only one meal.
然後就是，清淡的食物…
每天就是白天出發去學校，下午回來簡單煮一餐，吃大分一餐底兩餐，然後繼續搞清楚明天該怎麼做

 I love biking!

Lufthansa! Kong works here
房東工作的公司，我是來辦銀行戶頭的

shitty meal, I was horrible that time.
想想當初的手藝，還有點小興奮呢

This was the first week, before the intensive German course begins, try to get all the documents done.
It happens that I need to wait for everything for at least three weeks. Well, I’ll stay in this house for a long time.

第一周，這樣簡單的了解環境，行政流程，然後就是，住這三個禮拜，然後呢，其他的才能開始呀。

Till this week, I’m in Germany for six months, not too long, but a lot happened to my life This time, with the begin of the second intensive German course, all the Erasmus routine began again, I think it’s time to review what I gone through in the past semester. -序章- 啟航 至本周為止，我已經在德國超過六個月啦，這半年說長不長，說短不短。 看著一切新的交換學生進來，繼續上寒暑假密集德文班，每天晚上的Party行程，就好像是時光倒流一樣。 也是到現在，我才有空回顧過去這半年、這學期。 附註:不負責任翻譯版，中英文基本上是不會逐字翻譯的，隨性隨寫

 This picture, is the last one I took before boarding to Frankfurt, and this happen to be the IMG_9999
what a coincidence, the coming photos start from number 1, just like my new life will be.

究竟，這是命運無情的捉弄…
還是貪婪的慾望在作祟‧‧‧‧
又或者是非善惡的因果循環 ?
我的這張照片剛好就是編號9999，登上前往法蘭克福的班機，我的照片就這樣從1號開始