26th August, 2002.

 

Central European Highlights Appendix:

My Last Week in Munich

Dear friends,

Hello! How are you?

It is now the 10th week of my attachment in the University of Munich. In the pvious two weeks, I was very busy and relatively tired. Thus I did not write any newsletters.

Andy Law, my best friend from school, had left for Sweden already. Before he left, a Cambridge Hong Kong friend of mine, Benny Lo, came to visit me. Three of us joined a local tour and had a happy Saturday visiting the royal castles of Neuschwanstein and Linderhof, and a beautiful Alpine town, Oberammergau (I hope that I spell it correctly =P).

I have also made a visit to a Bavarian town, Rosenheim to meet up with a German friend, Chris, from Trinity Hall. He drove me to the biggest lake of Bavaria, Chiemsee. We went by ferry to one of the islands on the lake and took some photos of the castle, Herrenchiemsee, built by King Ludwig II (the same king who built Neuschwanstein, the "fairy-tale" castle after which the Disney's castle is modelled.)

Yesterday I have been to Schloss Nymphenberg, a summer palace in Munich. Its gardens were very beautiful.

Last Thursday was the last day of my German class in the Goethe Institute. Our teacher, his girlfriend, and several of us went together to a Biergarten ("Beer garden", a very typical Bavarian open-air restaurant). Several of them brought food there to share. (One can bring his own food to a Biergarten as long as he buy drinks there. This right is protected by a "Biergarten law" in Bavaria, passed in the 19th century.) I really enjoyed my German lessons and wish that I can continue with it when I go back to Cambridge this October.

Last Friday, I gave a presentation about my project and its results to my group colleagues. I think that the presentation was quite successful. It was the first time ever, for me to use Power Point to give a proper presentation. (I have not got a chance to use Power Point in Cambridge yet.)

My colleagues in my group in Gene Center, University of Munich

我在慕尼黑大學基因中心的研究組的同事

 

This week I am staying in one of the guest rooms of the Gene Centre, for I have moved out from the apartment which I have rented for 9 weeks.

Now I am busy with writing up my report of my project which is due this Wednesday.

I will leave Munich this Saturday. I am going to spend a weekend in Heidelberg, staying in a Chinese pastor's home. Heidelberg is the best in German biomedical research, while Munich comes second. I am looking forward to visit this university town.

Next week I plan to have a four-day holiday in Switzerland, visiting Interlaken and Bern (the Swiss capital). Possibly, I will visit the Swiss Expo 2002, which is taking place in the Three Lake Region near Bern.

On 6th September (Friday) I will leave the German-speaking world for Hong Kong. Really the end of Central European journey.

OK, sorry for writing too much again. Thank you for reading my email.

 

Your friend,

 

Isaac

 

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我在慕尼黑的最後一週

 

親愛的朋友們：

 

哈囉！你們好嗎？

 

這是我在慕尼黑大學實習的第十週。在之前的兩週，我非常忙碌，也相對地疲憊，因此我沒有寫任何通訊。

 

我中學時代最好的朋友羅偉騫，已經往瑞典去了。在他走之前，我在劍橋的一位朋友Benny Lo來探訪我。我們一行三人參加了一個本地旅行團，參觀了新天鵝堡(Neuschwanstein)和Linderhof兩個皇室城堡，以及一個美麗的阿爾卑斯小鎮Oberammergau（希望我沒有串錯字啦 =p），渡過了一個愉快的週六。

 

我也去了一個拜仁小鎮Rosenheim去探望一位聖三一堂學院(Trinity Hall)的德國朋友Chris。他開車帶我去拜仁最大的湖泊Chiemsee。我們坐小輪到湖中其一個小島去，在拜仁國王路易二世所建的Herrenchiemsee城堡前拍照。（路易二世就是那位建築新天鵝堡──迪士尼的城堡的原型──的國王。）

 

昨天我去了慕尼黑的夏宮──Nymphenberg宮，其花園很美。

 

上星期四是我在歌德學院的德文班的最後一天。我們的老師，他的女朋友，和我們幾位同學一同去了一個「啤酒花園」（Biergarten，是一種很普遍的拜仁露天餐廳），他們其中幾位帶了食物來分享。（原來只要你在「啤酒花園」買飲品喝，你就可以帶自己的食物在那裡吃。這權利是受到一條在十九世紀通過的《啤酒花園法》保護的。）我真的很享受我的德文課，真希望當我十月份回劍橋時可以繼續學習德語。

Teacher and coursemates of my German class in Biergarten

德文班的老師和同學在「啤酒花園」

 

上星期五，我向我的研究組的同事作了有關我的研究項目及結果的報告，頗成功。這是我第一次用Power Point作正式的報告。（我在劍橋還未有機會用到呢。）

 

這星期，我住在基因中心的其中一間客房裡，因我已搬離了我租了九個星期的公寓。

 

現在，我忙於寫我的項目報告，最遲星期三要交。

 

本週六我將會離開慕尼黑。我會在海德堡（Heidelberg）一個中國傳道人的家過一個週末。德國的生物醫學研究，海德堡排第一，慕尼黑排第二。我嚮往去參觀這個大學城。

 

下星期，我計劃去瑞士渡假四天，打算去Interlaken和伯恩（Bern，瑞士首都）。我有可能會去伯恩附近的三湖區參觀瑞士二零零二博覽會。

 

在九月六日（星期五），我將會離開德語世界回香港去，真的要結束這次中歐之旅了。

 

好了，對不起，這次又寫得太多了。謝謝你閱讀我的電郵。

 

你的朋友，

 

馮儁熙上

 

二零零二年八月二十六日

 

原著為英文，中譯本完成於二零零六年五月六日。

 

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